Gitia. POLEMONIACE.E. 497 



36. Gr. subnuda, Torr. A span to a foot high, glandular-puberulent : leaves 

 chiefly at the base, spatulate or oblong, incisely toothed or slightly few-lobed ; those 

 of the naked stem small and entire, and above reduced to minute bracts : flowers 

 somewhat clustered at the summit of the branches of the naked panicle : calyx-lobes 

 broadly subulate : corolla orange or scarlet ; the tube half an inch long, thrice the 

 length of the ovate obtuse lobes. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. viii. 276. 



Western part of Nevada (R. H. Stretch), and Arizona (Newberry, Palmer) : may be expected on 

 the eastern borders of California. In the specimens, the anthers are included, on short filaments. 



1 0. Floivers capitate-glomerate or panicled, or scattered, usually bractless : corolla 

 (blue, purple, or white) from funnelform to campanulate or almost rotate : 

 stamens included or not surpassing the corolla-lobes : filaments slender : leaves 

 mostly pinnately incised or twice or thrice pinnately dissected. EUGILIA, 

 Benth. mainly. 



* Dwarf perennial, few-flowered among the leaves : ovules solitary. 



37. Gr. Larseni, Gray. Depressed, rising an inch or two out of ground from, 

 filiform subterranean running shoots, soft- pubescent : leaves much crowded at the 

 summit (but alternate), somewhat pedately 5 7-parted or the upper 3-cleft ; the 

 lobes 2 to 4 lines long, linear-oblong, or the larger more dilated and 2 3-cleft : 

 flowers almost sessile, little exceeding the leaves : corolla funnelform, violet-purple, 

 nearly half an inch long, fully twice the length of the calyx; the lobes broadly 

 oval. Proc. Am. Acad. xi. 84. 



On Lassen's Peak, in loose soil of volcanic ashes, Lemmon and John Larsen. This singular 

 little species might be thought to belong to the Navarre tia section ; but the lobes of the leaves 

 and of the calyx are not rigid, nor even so much as mucronate, and the flowers are not capitate- 

 crowded. In some flowers two or three of the stamens are abortive and very short, but all are 

 inserted at the same height, low down in the throat of the corolla. It is only in the solitary 

 ovules that this species accords with the section Microgilia. 



* * Annuals : ovules and seeds few or numerous in each cell. 



-t- Flowers numerous in dense headline clusters on long naked peduncles : stems erect, 

 a foot or two high : stamens inserted in the very sinuses of the short and broad 

 corolla, as long as their lobes : leaves twice or thrice pinnately dissected into very 

 narrow linear divisions. 



38. Gr. capitata, Dougl. Glabrous or a little pubescent : stem slender, loosely 

 branched above : calyx glabrous or nearly so : lobes of the light blue (rarely white) 

 corolla narrowly oblong or almost linear (2 lines long), nearly of the length of the 

 narrow tube. Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 2698 ; Lindl. Bot. Keg. t. 1170. 



Low grounds, not rare, from the Bay of San Francisco to Oregon. 



39. Gr. achilleasfolia, Benth. Like the preceding, but usually stouter, often 

 somewhat glandular : the capitate clusters and flowers larger or less compact : calyx 

 more or less woolly, its lobes with short recurved tips : lobes of the corolla obovate 

 or broadly oblong (2 or 3 lines long), the throat abruptly much dilated. Hook. 

 Bot. Mag. t. 5939. 



Hills and sandy ground, common through the western part of the State. 

 -t- -s- Flowers in small and rather loose clusters, or else scattered in the open panicle. 



++ Leaves mainly twice or thrice pinnately divided into fine and narrow segments : 

 corolla funnelform, from one to two thirds of an inch long : herbage somewliat viscid- 

 pubescent or glandidar, or glabrate : stems erect or at length diffusely spreading. 



40. Gr. multicaulis, Benth. A span to a foot or so in height, simple in depau- 

 perate and early plants, loosely branched in larger and later : flowers few or several 

 (rarely solitary) in a cluster terminating the slender naked peduncles, short-pedi- 

 celled or almost sessile ; corolla (a third of an inch long) violet, with proper tube 



