Gilia. POLEMONIACEJE. 491 



3. Corolla salverform, mostly ivith a filiform elongated tube, and the throat some- 

 times abruptly dilated : stamens inserted in the throat or orifice : anthers 

 short : ovules numerous : erect annuals, with leaves as in the preceding, and 

 handsome but sometimes small flowers crowded in a terminal capitate cluster. 

 LEPTOSIPHON, Endl. (Leptosiphon, Benth., formerly.) 



* Stems leafy : sessile leaves palmately 5 - 1 -parted and so seemingly whorled, also 

 fascicled in the axils ; their divisions linear-filiform : filaments slender, more or less 

 exserted (their length and that of the style different in different individuals, i. e. 

 dimorphous). 



j- Corolla comparatively large and its tube short. 



8. G. densiflora, Benth. A span to 2 feet high, rather stout and strict : divis- 

 ions of the leaves numerous, filiform, rather rigid, in somewhat distant apparent 

 whorls : tube of the white or rose-purple corolla little if at all exceeding the villous- 

 hirsute bracts and calyx ; its lobes nearly half an inch long, obovate. Leptosiphon 

 densifiorus, Benth. in Hort. Trans. 1834, t. 18, & Bot. Reg. t. 1725; Bot. Mag. 

 t. 3578. G. grandiflora (Leptosiplion grandifiorus, Benth.) is the same with the 

 tube of the corolla a little longer than usual. 



Sandy soil, through the western part of the State from San Francisco Bay southward. 



+. .{_ Corolla smaller, with a filiform tube 3 to 6 times the length of the ovate or oval 

 lobes ; the latter from 1| to 4 lines long. 



9. G. androsacea, Steudel. Erect or spreading, 3 to 1 2 inches high : corolla 

 lilac, rose-pink, or almost white, with a yellow or dark throat ; its tube (about an 

 inch long) much exserted beyond the hirsute or villous-ciliate bracts and subtending 

 leaves, thrice the length of the lobes (these 3 or 4 lines long). Leptosiphon andro- 

 saceus, Benth. 1. c. t. 18, & Bot. Reg. t. 1710; Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 3491. 



Var. detonsa, Gray, 1. c. : a slender and almost glabrous form, the bracts and 

 leaves merely hispidulous-ciliate. 



Var. rosacea : a dwarf and more tufted form, only a span high, very florifer- 

 ous, with bright rose-red corolla. Leptosiphon parvifiorus, var. rosaceus, Hook. f. 

 Bot. Mag. t. 5863. 



Hillsides, throughout the western part of the State and up to the higher foot-hills of the Sierra 

 Nevada. Var. detonsa, in the mountains of Monterey Co. (Brewer) ; also collected by Bridges. 

 An intermediate form near Carson City, Anderson. Var. rosacea, near San Francisco, Kellogg, 

 &c. A beautiful species in cultivation. 



10. G. micrantha, Steudel. Slender, at length diffuse, about a span high : 

 tube of the corolla extremely slender (three fourths to an inch and a half long), 4 to 

 6 times longer than the lobes ; these 2 or 3 lines long, from yellow to cream-color 

 and pale purple or whitish : pubescence of the bracts and upper leaves short and 

 soft. G. lutea, Steudel., Benth. Leptosiphon parvifiorus & L. luteus, Benth. in 

 Bot. Reg. G. micrantha, var. aurea, & G. longituba, Benth. PL Hartw. 324, 325. 



Hillsides, through the western part of the State. Passes by larger-flowered forms (G. longituba, 

 Benth.) into var. rosacea of the preceding. 



11. G. tenella, Benth. Low and mostly depressed, small : tube of the corolla 

 6 to 9 lines long, less slender in proportion to the size of the limb (the latter rose- 

 color or pink with a yellow throat) ; the lobes barely a line and a half long : 

 bracts and leaves hispidulous-ciliate. PI. Hartw. 325. Leptosiphon bicolor, Nutt. 

 PI. Gamb. 156, chiefly. 



Dry hillsides, Santa Barbara to Puget Sound. 



12. G. ciliata, Benth. 1. c. More rigid and hirsute, a span to a foot high : tube 

 of the rose-colored or purple or at length whitish corolla little if at all exserted be- 

 yond the very hirsute or hispid-ciliate bracts and subtending leaves, half to three 

 quarters of an inch long, the lobes only a line and a half long : calyx -lobes acerose. 



