Gilia. POLEMOXIACEiE. 147 



G. debilis, "Watson. An inch or two high, minutely pubescent: leaves oblong, 2-3- 

 lobed or entire, tapering into a short petiole, shorter than the flowers : corolla two thirds 

 inch long ; the tube exceeding tlie calyx : lobes of the latter conspicuously 3-nerved : 

 stamens more or less and the style prominently exserted : " seed without mucilage or spi- 

 ricles." — Am. Naturalist, viii. 302 ; Rothrock, in Wlieeler Rep. t. 19. — S. Utah, Wheeler. 

 * * Ovules aud seeds few or numerous in the cells. 

 -1— Root annual. 



++ Corolla more or less funnelform, having a distinct tube : corolla from blue to purplisli or some- 

 times white: flowers in the first species much crowded and sliort-pedicelled, in the last t^cattered. 



= Seeds developing mucilage and spiricles when wetted, mostly numerous : leaves once to thrice 

 pinnately divided or cleft: herbage somewhat pubescent or gla'brate. 



G. Capitata, Dougl. Stem slender, a foot or two high, nearly glabrous : leaves 2-3-pin- 

 nately divided into slender or even filiform-linear lobes : flowers numerous in dense capitate 

 clusters terminating long naked peduncles : calyx glabrous or nearly so: corolla light blue 

 (4 or 5 lines long) ; its tube about the length of tiie narrowly oblong or lanceolate-linear 

 lobes and the nearly glabrous calyx, only slightly dilated at the throat : stamens inserted 

 in the very sinuses of the corolla. — Hook. Bot. Mag. t.2G98; Lindl. Bot. Keg. t. 1170; 

 Brit. Fl. Card. t. 287. — W. California and Oregon. Common in gardens. 



G. achilleaefolia, Benth. Generally more pubescent and rather stouter than the pre- 

 ceding, and the head like flower-clusters larger and less compact : flowers larger : calyx 

 more or less woolly ; its lobes with short recurved tips : lobes of the violet-blue or lavender- 

 purple corolla obovate or broadly oblong ; its throat abruptly and amply dilated. — Bot. 

 Keg. no. 1622, & Prodr. 1. c. 311; Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 5939; Gray, Bot. Calif, i. 447.— 

 Common throughout W. California. 



G. multicaulis, Benth. 1. c. A span to a foot high, at length diffuse : leaves mostly 

 twice pinnately parted into narrow linear lobes : flowers fewer and in a less dense shorter- 

 peduncled cluster than the preceding, some of tbe pedicels in fruit equalling the calyx : 

 corolla (4 lines long) violet ; its proper tube shorter than the calyx, and its obovate or 

 ovate lobes not longer than the funnelform throat: capsule ovoid. — Gray, Bot. Calif, 

 i. 498. G. arMlecefolla, Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1682 ; Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 3440 ; Brit. Fl. Gard. 

 n. ser. t. 280, not Benth. G. mi/lcfoliata, Fisch. & Meyer, Ind. Sem. Petrop. 1838, 3-5, a dif- 

 fuse and small-flowered form. G. sfrlda, Scheele in Linn. xxi. 755. Pohmoninm capitatum, 

 Eschsch. in Mem. Acad. Petrop. 1826? — California, very common throughout the western 

 part of the State. 



Var. tenera, Gray, 1. c, a depauperate and attenuated form, in dry and poor soil, 

 with peduncle more loosely o-5-flo\vered, or even 1-flowered. — G. sfn'cta, Liebm. Ind. Sem. 

 Hafn. 1853 ? — With the ordinary form. 



G. tricolor, Benth. A span to a foot or two high, mostly slender, paniculately branched, 

 at length diffuse : leaves (as of the preceding or more slender) and calyx, &c., usually more 

 viscid-pubescent : flowers few or several and short-pedieelled or subsessile in cymulose 

 rather short-peduncled clusters : corolla (half inch long) twice or thrice the lengtli of the 

 calyx, with very short and yellowish proper tube, ample campanulate-funnelform throat 

 marked with deep brown-purple, and lilac or violet roundish lobes which surpass the 

 stamens. — Hort. Trans, viii. t. 18; Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1. 1704; Brit. Fl. Gard. n. ser. t. 261 ; 

 Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 3463. — California, throughout the western part of the State: common 

 in cultivation. 



G. latitlora. A span or two high, effusely paniculate, glabrous, and the infloi-escence and 

 calyx sparsely glandular : radical leaves simpl_y pinnatifid, linear-lanceolate (an inch or 

 two long), with short ovate or triangular and cuspidate-tipped lobes ; the cauline few and 

 small or minute, all but the lowest entire and subulate : j)aniculate cyme very loose : pedicels 

 equalling or shorter than the flower: corolla (7 to 11 lines long) purple with yellowish or 

 brownish throat, dilated-funnclform, abruptly contracted below into a narrow tube which 

 slightly exceeds the calyx ; its lobes rounded-obovate : capsule ovoid. — G. teuiii flora, var. 

 lati flora, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. viii. 278, & Bot. Calif. I.e. — California, San Diego and 

 Los Angeles Co., Fremont, Wallace, Palmer (402). 



G. tenuiflora, Benth. A foot or more high, slender, loosely paniculate above : radical 

 and lower leaves bipinnately parted or divided, or simply divided and the narrow divisions 



