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POLEMONIACEAE. 



margins beset with divaricate spinose-subulate teeth; flowers less 

 glomerate; corolla narrowly funnelform, 12-18 mm. long, deep purple; 

 capsule dehiscent, 6-10-seeded. {Gilia atractyloides Steud.) 

 Frequent in dry washes. May-June. 



3. GILIA R. & P. 



Annual herbs, rarely perennial or shrubby, with alter- 

 nate entire or pinnately toothed, lobed or divided leaves, 

 and small or showy flowers more or less clustered at the 

 ends of the branches. Calyx campanulate or tubular, 

 5-toothed or 5-lobed, scarious between the ribs or angles. 

 Corolla funnelform. Stamens inserted equally on the 

 throat. Capsule at length distending and rupturing the 

 calyx. Seeds several in each cell, becoming mucilaginous 

 when wetted. 



Leaves not pungently toothed; flowers not in 

 leafy-bracted heads. 

 Ovules 1-2 in each cavity. 

 Ovules several in each cavity. 



Flowers in few-many-flowered clusters. 

 Flowers in few-flowered clusters. 

 Flowers in many-flowered heads. 

 Stems and leaves glandular-pu- 



berulent. 

 Stems and leaves glabrous or 

 pilose. 

 Calyx glabrous or pilose; 

 anthers included or but 

 little exserted. 

 Calyx densely arachnoid-vil- 

 lous; anthers well exserted. 

 Flowers scattered, terminating slender 

 pedicels. 

 Corolla 6-10 mm. long, the tube little 

 exceeding the calyx. 

 Calyx 4 mm. long; corolla 6 mm. 



long. 

 Calyx 2 mm. long; corolla 8-10 

 mm. long. 

 Corolla 15-30 mm. long, the tube 

 much exceeding the calyx. 

 Leaves pungently toothed; flowers in leafy- 

 bracted woolly-matted heads. 

 Annual. 

 Perennial. 



1. G. gilioides. 



2. G. multicaulis. 



3. G. achilleajolia. 



4. G. abrotanifolia. 



5. G. staminea. 



6. G. oreophila. 



7. G. exilis. 



8. G. 



9. G. virgata. 

 10. G. densifolia. 



1. G. gilioides (Benth.) Greene. Loosely branching, erect or 

 diffuse, 2-5 dm. high, commonly villous and glandular throughout; 

 basal leaves and the lower cauline leaves pinnately-parted into 



