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and salver-shaped to bell-shaped and wheel-shaped. The 

 seeds generally become mucilaginous when wet. The flowers 

 are showy, and among our most characteristic spring annuals ; 

 the species are numerous, and are not always easily distin- 

 guished. Only the most distinct and common are given. 



a. G. grandiflo'ra Dougl. Salmon-color Gilia (Collo'mia). 



Flowers crowded at the summit of an erect stem ; corolla pale 

 salmon-color, with the tube nearly an inch long and the border 

 almost as broad. Widely distributed, 



h. G. squarro'sa Esch. Skunk weed (Navarre'tia) . Stems low, 

 branching diffusely, viscid. Leaves and bracts pinnately parted, 

 with spiny divisions. Flowers small, deep blue. This blooms late 

 in the summer. The icliole plant has the odor of the skunk. Widely 

 distributed. 



c. G. tricolor Benth. Bird's Eyes. Stems slender, branching. 

 Corolla ^ in. long, with a yellow tube, the funnel-form throat marked 

 icith deep violet-purple, and the limb ivhite or lilac. It is sweet-scented 

 and very pretty. Throughout western California. 



d. G. dicho'toma Benth. Evening Snow (Linan'thus). Erect 

 and branching herbs with very slender stems. The leaves are few, 

 small, and far apart. Flowers large, terminating the peduncles, salver- 

 form, icith the divisions convolute in the bud, showing only the dull-pink 

 outer edges, opening about 4 o'clock. Where they are abundant they 

 look like snow on the ground. The white flowers are often more 

 than an inch in diameter, and have a sweet, heavy perfume. 

 Throughout western California. 



e. G. androsa'ceus Benth. (Linan'thus). Stems leafy, with 

 palmately parted leaves, apparently whorled, with thread-like divi- 

 sions. Flowers crow^ded in a terminal cluster. Corolla salver- 

 form, with a long, slender tube, rose-color, lilac or white. This is a 

 handsome and widely distributed species, but variable and difiicult 

 to distinguish from allied species. 



/. G. micran'tha Steud. Smaller in all its parts than the pre- 

 ceding, with the tube of the corolla long and thread-like, 1-1^ in. 

 long. Flowers small, rose-color, white, or lilac. Common through 

 California. 



g. G. cilia'ta Benth. Stems slender, erect, clothed with white 

 hairs. Flowers and bracts in a dense, capitate cluster, very hispid 

 and ciliate. Corolla small, pink or white, extending beyond the 

 bracts but little. This is widely distributed through California, 

 and common. 



h. G. dianthoi'des EndL Fringed Gilia. Stems from an inch 

 to less than a foot high, simple or branching from the base. Leaves 

 thread-like. Corolla pink, with yellowish throat and very short tube. 



