VOL. 21 Milliken. Calif or nia-n Polenwuiaceae. 33 



Growing in sand on Darwin Mesa, Inyo Co. Argus Mts., 

 Inyo Co., at 5000 feet altitude. Erskine Creek, Desert Region 

 of Southern California, C. A. Purpus. 



16. Gilia tricolor Benth. 



Annual, a span to one foot high, puberulent, simple, or 

 branching; leaves an inch or two long at the base, becoming 

 smaller upward, once or twice piunatifid, rachis and divisions 

 very slender and lax ; inflorescence of small clusters of few flowers 

 or single; calyx two to four lines long in flower, mainly herba- 

 ceous, margins of the broad ribs often dark blue or purple, lobes 

 acute, equal to or shorter than the tube, slightly accrescent in 

 fruit, but nearly equalled by the capsule; corolla six to eight 

 lines long, salverform, tube short, included, yellow, throat large, 

 yellow with very dark purple markings, lobes broad ovate, pink 

 to purple; stamens inserted at the sinuses, filaments about one 

 line long, anthers oval; capsule oblong, nearly equalling the 

 calyx, seeds many. 



Foothills of the Coast Ranges from Shasta Co. to San Luis 

 Obispo Co. Foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mts. from Shasta 

 Co. to Tulare Co. Mojave Desert, Los Angeles Co., according 

 to A. Davidson. Marysville Buttes, Sutter Co., W. L. Jepson. 

 Elk Grove, Sacramento Co., E. R. Drew. 



17. Gilia millefoliata Fisch. and Mey. 



Annual, three to eight inches high, simple or with few 

 1 tranches, glandular- viscid: leaves once or twice pinnatifid, with 

 many narrow pinnae; inflorescence one to few-flowered; calyx 

 mainly herbaceous; corolla four to five lines long, funnelform, 

 with dark markings in the throat; running into G. multicaulis. 



Humboldt Co., H. P. Chandler, and southward all along the 

 coast to Monterey Co. 



18. Gilia Nevinii Gray. 



Annual, from two inches to one foot high, simple or branch- 

 ing, glandular-pubescent, often canesceiit, making the foliage 

 very gray; leaves crowded at the base, typically thrice pin- 

 nately divided, the pinnae and rachis very narrow; inflorescence 

 of terminal or axillary clusters of few flowers, on few-bracted 



