460 POLEMONIACE® GILIA 
POLEMONIUM 
effuse cymose panicle; flowers inconspicuous; corolla white, 2-3 lines long, 
fully twice the length of the calyx, slender-funnelform, with very small 
acute lobes: capsule ovoid, equalling or exceeding the triangular acute 
calyx-teeth. Eastern Washington and Oregon to Nevada and Utah. 
G. hispida Piper Erythea vi, 30. ‘‘ Annual, prostrate, 3-5 inches in 
diameter, hispid throughout with white hairs; stems usually purplish, 
branched from the base in a falsely dichotomous manner, the branches 
curving inward in age; leaves all alternate, spatulate-lanceolate, acutish 
or theearliest truly spatulate and obtuse, 6-12 lines long, all tapering to 
a narrowed base; midrib prominent in age, the veins not visible: flowers 
solitary and sessile in the forks or terminal, the latest ones loosely crowded 
in very leafy capitate clusters: calyx green, very hispid the lobes nearly eq- 
ualling the corolla,becoming scarious at base in age ;corolla pinkish,tubular. 
4 lines long, the lobes very short and obtuse, very slightly dilated in the 
throat, sparsely hispid above both within and witbout; stamens unequally 
inserted, entirely included in the lower half of the tube: ovary 2-celled; style 
short, one-half the length of the corolla: mature capsule oblong, 1-2 lines 
long with about eight ventricose swellings on each valve marking the posi- 
tion of the seeds; seeds 10-12, black, wrinkled, the coats not developing 
mucilage when wetted. In drifting sand at Pasco Washington. 
++ ++ Pedicels slender or filiform, scattered, becoming horizontal 
or reflexed : corolla campanulate or rotate. 
G. micromeria Gray |. c. Nearly glabrous, glandless, effusely much 
branched; branches filiform : radical and lower leaves pinnatifid, with ob- 
tuse lobes; the upper linear and entire: pedicels capillary, 6-7 lines long, 
axillary, or opposite leaves: flowers barely a line long: corolla campanulate, 
white, a little longer than the 5-cleft calyx: capsule globular, few-seeded. 
Northwest Nevada, to be looked for in adjacent Oregon. 
G. fiJiformis Parry, Gray Proc. Am. Acad. x, 75. Completely glab- 
rous and smooth: stem erect with filiform spreading branches: leayes all 
filiform or nearly so, entire: pedicels scattered, capillary, at length refract- 
ed: corolla cream-color, very open-campanulate, 2 lines long, deeply 5-cleft, 
exceeding the 5-parted calyx; its lobes truncate and obscurely erose-den- 
tate: capsule globular: seeds few, developing mucilage but not spiral 
threads when wetted. Eastern Washington to Utah. 
+ + Much branched annuals with filiform or slender-subulate and 
entire or sometimes 3-parted leaves and short-campanulate 5-toothed 
calyx: flowers scattered, small: stamens inserted on and included in 
the tube of the corolla: ovules solitary in the cells. 
G. minutiflora Benth. DC. Prodr. ix, 315. Glabrous or minutely 
glandular-puberulent above: stem erect, 10-20 inches high, with many 
virgate and rigid, slender branches: upper leaves all reduced to minute 
subulate appressed bracts, the lower larger and some of them 3-parted: 
flowers 2 lines long, terminal and spicately disposed along the branchlets: 
tube of the corolla about twice the length of the calyx and of its own lobes: 
filaments slender: capsule ovoid: seeds oblong. Eastern Washington and 
Oregon to Idaho and Wyoming. 
G. tenerrima Gray Proc. Am. Acad. viii, 277. Minutely and sparsely 
glandular: stem 4-10 inches high, effusely much branched with filiform 
branches: leaves entire, linear-lanceolate: flowers loosely panicled, on 
slender divergent pedicels, minute: calyx campanulate, the lanceolate 
lobes equalling the tube: lobes of the corolla oblong, as long as the calyx: 
capsule globular: seeds turgid-oval. Southeastern Oregon to Utah. 
G. capillaris Kellogg Proc. Cal. Acad. v. 49. Slender annual 2-18 
inches high, glandular, otherwise glabrous, branching into an effuse pan- 
