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136 POLEMOXIACE.E. Collomia. 



* Caiiline leaves simply pinnately parted into few (3 to 7) narrow-linear or often almost filiform 

 divisiiins. ^■ery niinienius, all alternate: intiorescence tliyrsit'orm or panieled: corolla salverform, 

 with tube little if at all diluted upward. 



C. Cavanillesiana, Don. Biennial (or perhaps perennial southward) with a somewhat 

 woody base, more or less pubescent, virgately branched : flowers in small clusters in a 

 narrow or raceme-like leafy thyrsus : jiedicels very short or none : corolla white, ochroleu- 

 cous, or tinged with purple, only half inch long; the tube 2 or 3 times the length of the 

 calyx ; the sinuses somewhat unequal ; lobes oblong : filaments moderately unequally 

 inserted high in the considerably funnelform-expanded throat : anthers roundish : ovules 



5 to 7 in the cells. — Syst. iv. 2-46; Gray, 1. c. 2G0. Phlox pinnuta, Cav. Ic. t. 528. Cantiia 

 jlomerijiora, Juss. Ann. Mus. Par. ii. 119. Gilia <jloinerijlora, Bentli. 1. c. G. multiJiora,'Nutt. 

 ri. Gamb. 1. c. — New Mexico and W. Texas to Arizona. (Mex.) 



C. Thurberi, Gray. Resembles the preceding in foliage and growth, but only minutely 

 pubescent : inflorescence more spicate : flowers much larger : corolla blue or lilac, showy, 

 salverform ; the tube an inch or rather more in length, very slightly and gradually dilated 

 upwards, 3 or 4 times the length of the calyx and of its orbicular lobes : filaments in the 

 throat: anthers short-oblong: ovules 8 or 9 in each cell. — Proc. Am. Acad. I.e. 261. — 

 New Mexico, near the Santa Rita copiiermines, and in Arizona, Thurber. 



C. longiflora, Gray, 1. c. Annual, glabrous, loosely paniculate-branched : divisions of 

 the leaves long and slender : flowers loosely somewhat corymbose on slender peduncles : 

 corolla white, strictly salverform and Phlox-like, showy ; the tube often an inch and a 

 half long, with narrow orifice; lobes orbicular or ovate (sometimes abruptly pointed): 

 filaments very unequally inserted into the upper part of tlie tube, or 2 or 3 of them in the 

 throat: anthers elongated-oblong: ovules 10 or 12 in each cell. — Cantua loin/l flora, Torr. in 

 Ann. Lye. N. Y. ii. 221. Gilia loncjiflora, Don, Benth., &c. — W. Nebraska and Colorado to 

 borders of Texas, and Arizona ; common in j^ine forests. 



* * Leaves mostly entire, narrowly linear, scattered : corolla truly funnelform. 



C. leptalea, Gray. Slender annual, 2 to 18 inches high, minutely glandular, otherwise 

 glabrous, branching into an effuse ])anicle : leaves 6 to 20 lines long, or the uppermost 

 reduced to small subulate bracts, the lower sometimes with 2 or 3 small lobes : peduncles 

 filiform or capillary: calyx small; its lobes subulate: corolla pink-red, 5 to 10 lines long; 

 its slender tube longer than the calyx, and rather abruptly expanded into a wide funnel- 

 form throat of about the length of the oval spreading lobes. — Proc. Am. Acad. I.e. 



6 Bot. Calif, i. 488. Gilia capillaris, Kellogg in Proc. Calif. Acad. v. 4G. — California ; com- 

 mon on moist or wet banks in the Sierra Nevada, &c. A delicate species ; the corolla in 

 shape like that of Gilia tenuijlora. 



3. LiCES!]B]LIA, L. {John Loesel, of the 16tb century, author of a Flora 

 Prussica, «S:c.) — Somewhat shrubby or suffruticulose plants (of Mexico and ad- 

 jacent districts) ; with more or less rigid and commoidy spinulose-toothed or 

 spinulose-ciliate leaves, and the uppermost forming conspicuous bracts to the 

 clustered flowers. But the following species form a section, Giliopsis, connect- 

 ing with Gilia, having more scattered flowers, hardly any bracts, and very nar- 

 row leaves (all alternate), merely with rigidly mucronate tips. Limb of the 

 corolla irregular by one of the lobes being separated by deeper sinuses from the 

 others ; the cuneate lobes erosely truncate or 3-denticulate : filaments incurved 

 below the apex. — Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. xi. 86. 



L. tenuifolia. Gray. Much branched from a somewhat woody perennial base, a span to 

 a foot liigh, nearly glabrous : leaves lincar-acerose, entire, or the lower and larger with 2 or 

 3 spreading subulate lobes : flowers ratlicr crowded at the summit, the branches sliort-pedi- 

 celled : calyx-lobes subulate : corolla bright red, narrowly tubidar-funnelform, an incli long ; 

 the tube 3 or 4 times the lengtii of the lobes : capillary filaments and style conspicuously 

 exserted: ovules 8 or 10 in each cell. — Bot. Calif, i. 500, & Proc. 1. c. — Tantillas Moun- 

 tains, on tlie lower border of San Diego Co., California, Mr. Dunn, Palmer. 



L. efflisa, Gray. Diffusely much branched and rigid from an apparently annual root, 

 a foot high, nearly glabrous : leaves all entire and filiform or very narrowly linear, short 



