GILIA DICHOTOMA Bentham. 



Erect, few--12 in. high, nodes few 

 and exceeding 1 the leaves, these or their 

 3-5 segments linear- filiform, 1 in. long: 

 fls subsessile: calyx prismatic scari- 

 ous except the 5 prominent angles 

 which are prolonged into acerose-lin- 

 ear recurved segments: corolla salver- 

 form, tube scarcely exserted, limb 1- 

 1% in. broad, white, shaded on the out- 

 side with dark chocolate-color: sta- 

 mens inserted below the middle of the 

 throat, the base of each filament set 

 within a nectariferous groove (as in 

 certain Hydrophyllaceae) : anthers lin- 

 ear: cells of capsule 20-40-seeded: seeds 

 rcundish, with a loose arilliform coat, 

 not mucilaginous when moistened. 

 Throughout Cal., Arizona; fls richly 

 phlox-scented. 

 GILIA BIGELOVII A. Gray. 



Smaller than G. dichtoma; corolla in- 

 conspicuous, lobes 2 lines long, scarcely 

 surpassing the calyx- teeth: anthers 

 o\al: seeds oval or oblong, with a 

 close coat, mucilaginous in water. 

 Southeastern Cal. to Texas. 



LIXAXTHUS LUTEOLUS Greene. 



"Very diffusely branching, 3-6 inches 

 high, rather roughly hirsute-pubescent 

 throughout, the leaves and leaf-like 

 organs all destitute of any special mar- 

 ginal ciliation: mature calyx 5-parted 

 almost to the base, perhaps when 

 young less deeply cleft and with nar- 

 row scarious spaces below the sinuses: 

 corolla yellow, with very slender tube, 

 no throat, and a rotate limb about one- 

 third inch broad." Greene, Erythea 3: 

 121. Cuyamaca Mts. (G. R. Vasey). 

 Baja Calif. (Orcutt). 



LIXAXTHUS MONTANUS Greene. 



"L. ciliatus montanus Greene, pitt 2: 

 260. Habit of I/, ciliatus, but larger, 

 less hispid: corolla many times larger, 

 nearly 2 inches long, with elongated 

 tube gradually widening to a broadly 

 funnel-form purple throat, the limb of 

 cuneate-obovate truncate whitish seg- 

 ments V 2 inch broad, yet apparently 

 expanding not to the rotate, but only 

 to the wide funnelform." Greene, Er- 

 ythea 3:120. San Bernardino Mts. to 

 Xapa Co., Cal. 



NEMOPHILA MENZIESII H. & A. 



Branches slender or stout and succu- 

 lent, ascending, mostly 10-25 cm long, 

 more or less hirsute-pubescent with 

 spreading or appressed, not always re- 



trorse hairs: cotyledons usually spatu- 

 late: leaves mostly opposite, the lower 

 4-9 cm long, pinnately divided into 5-9 

 oblong', ovate, or suborbicular, mostly 

 2- or 3-lobed or toothed divisions; upper 

 leaves reduced and less divided in propor- 

 tion to their distance from the root: ped- 

 uncles slender, spreading, usually twice 

 as long as the leaves: calyx-lobes lance- 

 olate or ovate-lanceolate, 4-10 mm long; 

 appendages lanceolate to linear, half as 

 long or less: corolla pelviform, divided 

 about 3-4ths the way to the base, 1-3.5 

 cm across, from light to deep blue, 

 veined deeper blue or purple, lighter- 

 colored and often dotted, but seldom 

 hairy toward the center; scales varying 

 from broad and wholly adherent to nar- 

 row and part free, laciniate, ciliate or en- 

 tire, often crisped: style 2-4 times as long 

 as theovary, parted for about a third its 

 length: capsule elongated-globular, 5-10 

 mm in diam: seeds 5-25 per capsule, 1-2 

 mm long, oblong-ovoid or globose, scaly, 

 rough, with a few d>eep pits; caruncle 

 stipe- or cap-like. Baby blue eyes. 

 Throughout California. 

 Variety IXTEGRIFOLIA Parish. 



"Stems 6-8 in. long, prostrate; leaves 

 4-8 in. long, ovate or obovate, entire, or 

 rarely 1-2-toothed, or lobed; corolla 6 

 lines wide, very light blue, or nearly 

 white: calyx lobes equalling or sur- 

 passing the mature capsule, this ovoid, 

 3 lines high." Parish, Erythea 6:91. 

 San Bernardino Mts., 4,000 ft. alt. 



XEMOPHILA RACEMOSA Xutt. 



Near X. aurita, but less prickly: co- 

 tyledons with orbicular blade and 

 long petiole: leaves shorter and broad- 

 er in outline and with fewer divisions, 

 these more often toothed or lobed; pet- 

 ioles never broadly winged nor auricu- 

 late-clasping: fls less than 1 cm across, 

 more plainly racemose: corolla-scales 

 narrow, often half free, sometimes ob- 

 solete. San Diego. Catalina. Santa 

 Cruz Island. Cedros. Guadalupe. 



XEMOPHILA SEPULTA Parish. 



"Hirsute: stems 5-8 (rarely 15) cm 

 long, procumbent: leaves usually ap- 

 proximate, opposite, oblong in outline, 

 12 mm (rarely 5 cm) long, the lower 

 half narrowed into a margined petiole, 

 above pinnately parted nearly to the 

 midrib into 5 or 7 equal, oblong, entire, 

 mucronulate lobes; fls in slender pe- 

 duncles, soon deflexed, and burying the 

 capsule more or less in the soil; lobes 

 of the calyx triangular-acuminate, cil- 

 iate, the appendages nearly as long as 

 the lobes: corolla very small (4-6 mm 

 in diameter), little exceeding the calyx 

 lobes, white, its appendages minute, 



