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G. Chamissonis. Polemonium capitatum, Esch. Mem. 
Acad. Petrop. x. 282 (1826). Gilia achillecefolia, A. Gray, 
in part, not Benth. A foot high, glandular-puberulent: 
leaves mostly bipinnately dissected into narrowly linear 
segments: branches few, naked and pedunculiform, bearing 
a dense capitate cluster of deep blue flowers: calyx glabrous 
or glandular-pilose, broad and urceolate, mainly hyaline, 
only the narrow midribs herbaceous, the hyaline teeth broad 
and triangular, closing the tube both before and after 
flowering, only the short setacvous tips recurved-spreading: 
corolla deep blue throughout; tube cylindric; throat very 
short and broad; segments oblong, obtuse, scarcely spread- 
ing, usually even connivent, the well exserted stamens pro- 
truding from the sinuses. 
Abundant in the sand hills of San Francisco, and unmis- 
takably the “ Polemonium capitatum” of Eschscholtz, being 
the only Gilia of the shores as explored by him and Cham- 
isso, and the only one anywhere which answers to the 
description as to the “urceolate whitish calyx, with broad 
acute teeth, and broad green nerve.” Although annual, 
properly, the root is indeed almost fusiform, and occasion- 
ally a plant lives through the winter, to flower for a second 
season; hence the “perennial” as to the character of the 
root is excusable. The anthers are almost white, so that in 
the dry specimens they may have seem to have been 
“ vellow.” 
G. staminea. Near the preceding but tall and slender, 
not rarely 3 feet high, not in the least puberulent or 
glandular, but glabrous except a villous-arachnoid pubes- 
cence which is sparse upon the stem, conspicuous on the 
petioles, and abundant on the calyx: flowers capitate-con- 
gested at the ends of the long naked branches: calyx teeth 
ovate, setaceously acuminate, the midvein of these and the 
whole body of the calyx (mainly hyaline) densely cobwebby- 
villous: corolla light blue, large as in the last; the long- 
exserted anthers nearly white. 
Very common throughout the interior of California; 
strangely referred by Gray to G. capitata. 
