Phlox Family 313 



partially dehiscenl or Lndehiscent. Seeds commonly 

 mucilaginous and sending oul threads containing each a 

 spiral coil. 



1. N. prostrata < < ray, Greene. Glabrous or nearly bo ; flower 

 clusters sessile near the ground, the few branches radiating from 

 beneath and prostrate; leaves pinnatifid, the rachis broad and 

 strap-shaped, the segments short and spreading; calyx-tube 

 minutely white-hirsute, thin-hyaline between the stout costse, 

 constricted over the capsule, the segments spreading, 2 subulate 

 ami entire. ."> spinulose trilid ; pericarp a transparent indehiscent 

 utricle close-fitted to the amalgamated mass of glutinous seeds, 

 breaking transversely or irregularly when soaked ; seeds 4 in each 

 cell. (Gilia prostrata <iray.) 



In low adobe places on the mesas of the coast valley. Inglewood. 



2. N. viscidula Benth. Viscid-pubescent, at length much 

 branched, erect, 5-8 'cm. high, rather stout; leaves narrowly 

 linear but firm, laciniate-pinnatifid or parted into setaceous-sub- 

 ulate ascending lobes ; the bracts ovate-dilated; flowers densely 

 Lib -iiM j rate ; corolla violet or purple, 8-10 mm. long; capsule of 

 firm texture, dehiscent, normally 3-b-seeded. (Gilia viscidula 

 Gray.) 



Dry places of the interior plains and foothills. May-June. 



3. N. atractyloides (Benth.) H. & A. Pubescent and very 

 viscid, rigid-branched, spreading or procumbent, 5-15 cm. long; 

 leaves ovate-lanceolate, rigidly coriaceous and in age reticulate, 

 the margins beset with divaricate spinose-subulate teeth ; flowers 

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

 deep purple; capsule dehiscent, (i-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, 

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

 Corolla funnelform. Stamens inserted equally on the 



