316 Polemoniaceae 



long, lilac color with purple tube, narrowly funnelform, tapering 

 to the long slender tube ; capsule ovoid-oblong. 



Frequent in open pine forests in the San Gabriel and San Bernardino 

 Mountains. 



*** Leaves slender, entire or with a few slender lobes, pungent; 

 flowers crowded in leafy-bracted clusters; bracts and calyces 

 woolly-matted. 



9. G. virgata Steud. Annual, white-floccose, becoming gla- 

 brate ; stems slender, either simple and virgate or with virgate 

 branches from the base and paniculately branched above, 1-3 dm. 

 high; leaves slender-filiform, the lower mainly entire and the 

 upper rarely more than 3-parted; corolla blue or lavender, its 

 tube 8-12 mm. long, surpassing the acerose calyx-lobes; anthers 

 linear-sagittate, 2 mm. long. 



Frequent in the foothills and plains in the interior region, mostly east of 

 our limits. 



10. G. virgata floribunda Gray. Branches few, terminated by 

 large, compact flower clusters; most of the leaves pinnately 3-7- 

 parted ; corolla somewhat larger than in the type. 



On dry plains from Azusa eastward. 



11. G. densifolia Benth. Perennial, canescent-lanate when 

 young, becoming glabrate in age; stems rigid, branched from the 

 woody base, usually somewhat spreading, 1.5-3 dm. high; leaves 

 rigid, mostly pinnatifid or incisely laciniate into short subulate, 

 spinulose lobes; flowers densely clustered, capitate-glomerate; 

 corolla violet-blue, its tube about 12 mm. long, 2-3 times the 

 length of the calyx ; anthers sagittate. 



Occasional in open places, mostly on dry ridges, in the pine belt of all our 

 mountains. 



4. LEPTODACTYLON H. & A. 



More or less woody or shrubby, commonly tufted, very 

 leafy plants. Leaves commonly alternate, and much 

 fascicled in the axils, palmately 3-7-parted, acerose- 

 subulate, rigid and pungent. Flowers showy, solitary and 

 sessile or few in clusters at the summit of the branches 

 or branchlets. Corolla salver-shaped, the throat some- 

 what funnelform. Filaments short, attached equally in 



