78 POLEMONIACEiE. (gILIA FAMILY.) 



Var. decora, Gr. Corolla white or pale violet, with or without a brown-purple 

 throat; peduncles longer. 



§ 2. Linanthus, Endl. 



5. G. dichotoma, Benth. A span to a foot high, remotely leaved; flowers nearly 

 sessile in the forks, or terminating the *branches; calyx-tube white scarious; the teeth 

 green; corolla white; the lobes from half to nearly an inch long; the tube sometimes 

 purplish. 



§ 3. Leptosiplioiiy Endl. 



6. G. densiflora, Benth. A span to 2 ft. high; leaves in"somewhat distant apparent 

 whorls; tube of the white or rose-purple corolla about equaling the villous-hirsute bracts 

 and calyx; its lobes nearly half an inch long, obovate. 



7. G. androsacea, Steud. Erect or spreading, 3 to 12 inches high; corolla lilac, 

 rose, pink or almost white, with a yellow or dark throat; its tube about an inch long. 



Var. rosacea, Gr., is a dwarf tufted form with many rose-red flowers. 



8. G. micrantha, Steud. Slender, about a span high; tube of the corolla very 

 slender, 9 to 18 lines long; the lobes 2 or 3 lines long, from yellow to cream color and pale 

 purple, or whitish. 



9. G. tenella, Benth. Low and mostly depressed; tube of the corolla G to 9 lines 

 long, the rose colored or pink lobes barely a line and a half long, the throat yellow; 

 bracts and leaves hispidulous-ciliate. , 



10. G. ciliata, Benth. More rigid and hirsute than the preceding, a span to a foot 

 high; tube of the rose-colored or purple, or in age whitish corolla, little if at all exserted 

 beyond the very hirsute or hispid-ciliate bracts and subtending leaves, the lobes only a 

 line and a half long. 



§ 4. Le2:)todacti/lon, Hook & Arn. 



11. G. Californica, Benth. Two or three feet high, with spreading rigid branches; 

 corolla rose-color or lilac, an inch and a half in diameter. 



§ 5. Navarretlay Gr. 

 * Stamens included in the throat of the corolla. 



12. G. squarrosa, Hook & Arn. Bigid, rather stout, becoming much branched, 

 very glandular- viscid, fetid with the odor of a skunk; uj)per leaves and bracts spinescent; 

 corolla blue, 4 or 5 lines long. 



* * Stamens more or less exserted; corolla slender, 3 to 5 lines long. Leaves twice pinnatifid. 



13. G. cotulaBfolia Steud. Bather stout and rigid, a foot or much less in height; 

 villous pubescent and minutely glandular; upper bracts spinescent; tube of the violet or 

 whitish corolla hardly longer than the calyx; capsule usually 1-seeded. Exliales the 

 odor of Anthemis cotida (Mayweed). 



14. G. iutertesta, Steud. At length diffusely much branched, a span high, neither 



