Polemoniaceae .".1 1 



** Ovanj and capsule pointed. 



3. C. salina Engelm. Stems slender; flowers 3-5 mm. long, 

 pedicelled in loose cymes; calyx-lobes ovate-lanceolate, acute, as 

 1 o 1 1 <-r as the denticulate corolla-lobes; corolla-tube shallow-cam- 

 panulate; filaments about as long as the oval anthers; fringed 

 scales shorter than the corolla-tube ; capsule conic, usually 

 1 -seeded. 



In salt marshes along the coast, growing over Salicornia, etc. 



4. C. subinclusa D. & II. Stems rather coarse, ascending 

 small shrubs to the height of a meter or more; flowers 5-7 mm. 

 long, sessile or short-pedicelled, at length in clusters 1-2.5 cm. 

 thick; calyx-lobes ovate-lanceolate, acutish, much shorter than 

 the cylindric or urn-shaped corolla-tube; corolla-lobes much 

 shorter than the tube, minutely crenulate or papillose; anthers 

 oval, subsessile; scales narrow, fringed, reaching to the middle of 

 the tube; capsule conic, capped by the marcescent corolla. 



Common in the foothills, usually on shrubs or coarse herbs. 



Family 79. POLEMONIACEAE. Phlox Family. 



Herbs or rarely low shrubs, with alternate or opposite, 

 entire, lobed or dissected leaves, and perfect regular or 

 nearly so flowers, corymbose-capitate, cymose or panicu- 

 late. Calyx tubular or campanulate, 5-cleft, the seg- 

 ments slightly imbricated. Corolla 5-parted, the lobes 

 contorted. Stamens 5, inserted on the tip of the corolla 

 and alternate with its lobes ; filaments slender ; anthers 

 versatile, 2-celled, longitudinally dehiscent. Ovary 

 superior, mostly 3-celled ; ovules few-many in each cell ; 

 style simple, filiform ; stigmas 3, linear. Capsule mostly 

 loculicidally 3-valved. Seeds various. 



Leaves alternate; annual herbs, or 1 species perennial and lignescent at 

 base. 

 Calyx scarious between the angles, ruptured by the distended capsule. 



3. GlLIA. 



Calyx scarious or coriaceous at base. 2. Navarretia. 



Leaves alternate, palmately lobed; shrubby. 4. Leptodactylon. 

 Leaves opposite and — 



Entire, the floral alternate. 1. Microsteris. 



Palmately lobed, upper verticillate. 5. Linanthus. 



