438 POLEMONIACE^. Collomia. 



Proc. 



solitary in tlie lower forks : calyx-lobes more subulate from a broad base. — 

 Am. Aeacl. viii. 251). C. tinctoria, Kellogg in Proc. Calif. Acad. iii. 17, t. 2. 



Siena Neviulu, nuiiiily in tlie eastern portion ; thence to British Coliunbia and the northern 

 regions ea.st (»t' the Houky Alountnins. Tlie var. subuhda, which is peculiar in aspect, and may ho 

 distinct, on tliu caslurn honiursof the State, I'roin Nevada Co. to Oregon, and in Nevada. 



3. C. tenella, (iray, Dillusoly branched, slender, 3 to 5 inches higii : leaves 

 narrowly linear, with a tapering base (sometimes an inch and a half long) : flowers 

 scattered, solitary in all the forks, almost sessile ; calyx-lobes broadly triangular and 

 acute, shorter than the tube ; corolla narrow, puridish, 3 or 4 linos long. — Proc. 

 Am. Acail. viii. 25'J. 



Sierra Nevada ; soulli of Yosoniite Valley, at 8,000 foot {Oray) ; Nevada and Utah, Watson. 

 -H -H (Jali/x-tuhe rounded at base and wry short : many lower leaves opposite. 



i. C. gracilis, Dougl. A span or two in height, in age corymbosely much 

 })ranchcd : tlu; ilowers at length somewhat scattered : leaves lanceolate or linear, or 

 the lowest oval or obovate (an imdi or less long): corolla rose-purple, turning bluish, 

 less than half an inch lung, narrow ; the tube hardly exceeding the linear calyx- 

 lobes ; the oval lobes less than a line long. — Gilia gracilis, Hook. Bot. Mag. 

 t. 2924. 



Hills, not rare through the State ; extending to British Columbia and to the llocky Moun- 

 tains ; also in Chili. The seeds are mucilaginous, but want the spiral threads of all the otlier 

 species. 



* * Leaves deeply cleft or compound, the lower petioled : stems loosely branched. 



5. C. gilioides, Benth. A span to 3 feet high : lower leaves simply pinnately 

 parted into few or several linear lateral lobes, or the larger terminal lube oblong 

 and toothed: upper leaves 3-5-divi(lod: flowers scattered or some what clustered; 

 lobes of the nearly H-jtartod calyx linear-subulate, its base rounded: corolla pink 

 or purplish, its slender tube about half nn inch long, twice or thrice the length of 

 the calyx : stamens moderately uncfpial in insertion : capsule globular, 3-seeiled. — 

 C. (jiutinosa, 15enth. in \)C, a more viscid form. Gilia divaricata, Nutt. PI. 

 Gaud). 155. 



Moist gi'oimd, common through the western part of the State, and extending to the Sierra 

 Nevada : variable. 



6. C. heterophylla, Hook. A span or two in height, diffuse : leaves mostly 

 pinnately parted or the upper pinnatitid, and the lobes incised or cleft ; the upper- 

 most often entire and broader, subtending the capitate-clustered flowers (or these 

 rarely somewhat scatt(;red) : lobes of the merely 5-cleft calyx ovatedanceolate or tri- 

 angular, acute ; base of the tube in fruit acute : corolla purplish, half an inch long : 

 stamens very unequally inserted : capsule oval ; the cells 1 - 3-seeded. — Bot. ]\Iag. 

 t. 2895; Bot. Ileg. t. 1347. Coiirtoislabipinnatijlda, Reichenbach, Ic. Kxot. t. 208. 

 Navarretia heteroi)hylla, Henth. in !)(! 



Moist ground, Monterey to British Columbia. Stamens sometimes short, sometimes longer. 



§ 2. Corolla fannelform : seeds or at least the ovules several in each cell. 



7. C. leptalea, Cray. Slender, with diffuse and filiform branches, 2 to 18 

 inches high, minutely glandular : leaves narrowly linear, entire, or some of ' tlm 

 lowest occasionally with 2 or 3 small lobes : flowers eflusely jianicled, on indeed 

 filiform ])eduncles : calyx small, its lobes subulate: corolla i)ink-red, 5 to 10 lines 

 long, with slender tube longer than the calyx, and rather abruptly expanded into a 

 wide-funnelform throat about the length of the oval spreading lobes. — Proc. Am. 

 Acad. viii. 2G1 ; Watson, Bot. King Exp. 262, t. 65. Gilia capillaris, Kellogg in 

 Proc. Calif. Acad. v. 46. 



Common on moist or wet banks, and more depauperate in <lrier soil, in the Sierra Nevada, at 

 4,000 to 9,000 I'eet. Unlike any of the foregoing in habit. 



