AMERICAN POLEMONIACE RE. 127 
Calyx scarious below between the angles, accrescent, 
obpyramidal or nearly cyathiform, not distended by the 
capsule; segments herbaceous, equal, entire, triangular or 
lanceolate, erect, never recurved or even spreading, the 
sinuses at length enlarged below into a manifest revolute lobe. 
Corolla tubular-funnelform, with open throat and a spreading 
limb of short obtuse lobes. Stamens unequal and unequally 
inserted on the tube of the corolla, straight in the annual 
species, declined in the perennial. Capsule narrowed at 
base. Seeds usually 1 in each cell, in the typical, i. e., 
. annual species, mucilaginous when wetted, and emitting 
spiricles.—Herbs with alternate mostly entire leaves. 
* Perennial species, not typical, the stamens exerted and 
declined. 
l. C. DEBILIS — Gilia debilis, Watson, Am. Nat. viii. 302; 
Gray, Syn. Fl. 1. e. 146: Gilia Larseni, Gray, Proc. Am. 
Acad. xi. 84; Bot. Cal. i. 497; Syn. Fl. l. c. 146.—Lower 
leaves either pinnately or pedately 5—7-parted, the upper 3- 
cleft or entire.—From Arizona and Utah to Washington Ter- 
ritory, in volcanic soil, the depressed and leafy flowering 
stems from creeping rootstocks. 
** Annuals with strict and simple stem and flowers in 
capitate-crowded terminal leafy clusters ; 
typical species, the leaves 
2. C. GRANDIFLORA, Dougl in Bot. Reg. xiv. t. 1174;. 
Benth. in DC. Prodr. ix. 308; Gray, Syn. Fl. 1. e. 135.—Cali- 
fornia and Nevada and northward; a handsome species with 
Showy salmon-colored flowers. In cultivation, short branches 
. bearing flower-clusters are commonly developed in the axils. 
. ®specially the upper; and this also occurs in the wild plant. 
but less frequently ; the ordinary state exhibiting a strict and 
simple stem with one terminal bunch of flowers. The same 
18 true of th : 
nen Issued November 25, 1887. 
