Gilia. POLEMONIACE.E. 137 



(a quarter inch or less long) : flowers effusely paniculate : calyx-teeth short and broadly 

 triangular: corolla pink purple, short-funnelform, 5 lines long; its lobes fully as long as 

 the tube, unequal, about equalling the incurved filaments and style. — Proc. Am. Acad. 

 1. c, & Bot. Calif, i. 621. — With or near the preceding species. Palmer. 



4. GILIA, Ruiz. & P:iv. (Dedicated to Philip Gil, who helped Xuarez to 

 write a treati.se on exotic plants cultivated at Rome.) — North Auierican, chiefly 

 Western, with a few S. American species ; several cult, lor ornament. Flowers 

 in some species, especially in § 3 and § 9, tending to dimorphism, mainly in the 

 length of the style. A polymorphous genus : most of the sections have been 

 taken for genera, but they lack definiteness. — Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. viii. 261. 



Series I. Leaves either opposite or palmately divided to the sessile base, 

 usually both ; their divisions from narrowly linear to filiform : seed-coat in many 

 species mucilaginous when wetted, but destitute of spiricles. 



§ 1. Dactylophyllum, Gray, 1. c. Corolla campanulate, rotate, or short-fun- 

 nelform ; the lobes obovate : filaments slender : ovules numerous or sometimes 

 few in each cell : seed-coat when wetted develophig more or less mucilage-cells 

 from beneath the epidermis : low or slender annuals, loosely and mostly rather 

 small-flowered : leaves opposite or the upper alternate. 



* Flowers sub.sessile or short-pedicellcd in the forks of the stem, at length crowded: calyx deeply 

 cleft or parted, the lobes unequal: corolhi campanulate witli liardlyany proper tube (the lilanieuts 

 inserted on its base); lobes entire or nearl}' so: plants barely 2 inches high, with 3-7-parted 

 leaves. 



G. Parryae, Gray. Pubescent, much branched from the base, forming a tuft : leaves 

 short, 5-7-partcd ; the divisions linear-ace rose (barely quarter incli long): calyx deeply 5- 

 cleft; lobes acerose with broad thin-scarious margins: corolla (white, yellowish or purple, 

 half an inch long) with broadly ovate somewhat pointed lobes as long as the undivided 

 portion ; the throat below each crowned as it were by a broad adnate and emarginate or 

 obcordate scale : antlicrs oblong : capsule oval-oblong, many-seeded : seeds angular, not 

 mucilaginous when wetted. — Proc. Am. Acad. xi. 76. G. Kennediji, Porter in Bot. Gazette, 

 ii. 77. — Desert Plains, S.E. California : near the head of the Moliave, Lemmon, Parry, Pal- 

 mer. Kern Co., W. L. Kennedij. Dedicated to Mrs. Parnj, one of the botanical party which 

 discovered it. A handsome pygmy amuial ; remarkable for having appendages to the 

 corolla not unlike those of many IlijdroplujUacece. 



G. demissa, Gray. Less pubescent, diffusely branching, forming a depressed tuft: 

 leaves 3-parted, or some of them simple (half inch long) ; the divisions acerose: calyx 5- 

 parted: ecn-olla (white, sometimes purplish, 3 lines long) with obovate obtuse lobes and a 

 naked throat : anthers oval : ovules 6 or 7 in each cell. — Proc. Am. Acad. viii. 263, & Bot. 

 Calif, i. 489; llotlirock in Wlieeler Rep. 1. 19. — Desert plains, S. E. California and W. 

 Arizona to S. Utah, first collected by Fremont, next by Cooper. 



* * Flowers loose or scattered on slender or capillary pedicels : calyx barely 5-cleft: corolla short - 

 funnelfonn or approaching rotate, and with entire lobes: the filanieuts inserted in the throat: 

 anthers oval: leaves 3-7-parted, more or less hispidulous, or rarely glabrous. — Gilia § Dactylo- 

 phyllum, Benth. in UC. 



G. liniflora, Benth. Erect, at length diffu.se, 6 to 18 inches high, nearly glabrous: 

 leaves Spurrey-like ; the divisions nearly filiform : flowers paniculate : pedicels 5 to IT) lines 

 long: corolla white or barely flesh-colored, somewhat rotate; its throat pubescent at base 

 of the filaments ; the obovate lobes thrice the length of the narrow tube, 3 to 5 lines long 

 in the larger forms : ovules in the cells to 8. — Benth. in Bot. Reg. no. 1622, & DC. 1. c. 

 315; Hook. f. Bot. Mag. t. 5805. — California: rather common; passing freely into 



Var. ph0.,rnaceoides, Gray, 1. c, a smaller form, with capillary diffuse branches 

 and flowers of only half tlie size. — G. phanmcpoides, Benth. 1. c.; Hook. FI. ii. 74, t. 161. 

 — California to Brit. C^ohunbia and eastward to the Rocky Mountains; the smallest states 

 strikingly different from the original (j. llnljlord. 



G. pusilla, Benth. I. c. Small, diffuse, 2 to 6 inches high, very slender : divisions of the 

 leaves filiform-subulate or acerose (3 to 5 lines long) : capillary pedicels 5 to 10 lines long: 



