GILIA TRICOLOR. 

 TRI-COLORED GILIA. 



NATURAL ORDER, POLEMONIACE^.. 



Gil.lA TRICOLOR, Bentham. — A span to a foot or two high, mostly slender, paniculately 

 Ijranched, at length diftuse : leaves mostly twice pinnately parted into narrow linear lobes, 

 and, with the calyx viscid pubescent : flowers few or several and short-petioled or subsessile 

 in cymulose rather short-peduncled clusters: corolla (half an inch long) twice or thrice 

 the lengL of the calyx, with very short and yellowish proper tube, ample campanulate- 

 funnelform throat marked with deep brown purple, and lilac or violet roundish lobes 

 which surpass the stamens. (Gray's Synoptical Flora of North America. See also Vol- 

 ney Rattan's Flora of California.^ 



HE gardening of the olden time was rich in perennial 

 I plants. What are now called annuals were compara- 

 tively unknown in that age. Indeed, their popularity as consti- 

 tuting a chief class of garden flowers dates from little over fifty 

 years ago. Attention was chiefly drawn to their varied beauty 

 from the many species, found growing on the western shores of 

 our own land ; and in attracting this attention the plant we now 

 illustrate had an important part. In the early part of the pres- 

 ent century the Royal Horticultural Society of London was a 

 very able and influential body. Some of the most intelligent 

 horticulturists and botanists controlled its movements. At the 

 time we have in mind Mr. Sabine, in whose honor Finns Sabi- 

 niana is named, was Secretary ; and the society decided to send a 

 special collector to America in search of plants. Chiefly on the 

 recommendation of Sir W. J. Hooker, David Douglas, the son of 

 a stone mason, born at Scone, in Scotland, in i 798, and who had 

 shown remarkable aptitude in the study of different branches of 

 natural history as well as gardening, was selected for the jour- 

 ney, and he left England in 1823. He did not return till four 



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