DouglasiatKe, N. O. Polemoniacece. 



TAB. CCXXXV, 



GiLIA CONGESTA. 

 (§ EUGILTA.) 



Lanatasubsimplex, foliis bipinnatifidis carnosis laciniis linearibus 

 obtusis, floribus (albis) densissime capitatis capitulis racernosis, 

 calycibus 5-dentatis bracteisque dense lanatis. 



Gilia congesta. Hook. Fh Bor. Am. v. 2. />- 75. 



Phacelia furcata. Douglas^ mst. 

 Hab. Sandy plains of the Columbia. Douglas, 

 Root somewhat fusiform, annual? Stems 3 or 4 from the top 

 of the root, scarcely a span high, simple, rather copiously 

 leafy and very woolly. Leaves woolly, an inch or more long, 

 fleshy, pinnatifid and bipinnatifid; the segments linear, obtuse. 

 Flowers in dense, exceedingly woolly clusters or heads, so 

 woolly as almost to conceal the flowers. Heads racemose. 

 Pedicels of the flowers scarcely any ; bracteas about as long 

 as the calyx, linear. Calyx bell-shaped, 3-fid. Corolla with 

 the tube as long as the calyx: the limb of 5 oval spreading 

 segments, white, with a yellow eye. Stamens exserted. Anthers 

 oval-oblong. Germen oval or obovate, triquetrous. Style 

 shorter than the stamens, filiform. Stigma trifid. 



Fig. 1. 2. Flowers. / 3. Vh\\\X'^mag7iiJied. 



