Gilia. POrEMONTACE.I^. 491 



§ 3. Corolla salvcrform, mostly with a filiform elongated lube, and the throat Rome- 

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

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

 handsome hid sometivies small fioioers croivded in a terminal capitate cluster. 

 — Lkptosiphon, Eutll. {Leptosiphon, Bcntli., formorly.) 



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

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

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

 dimorphous). 



-«- Corolla comparatively large and its tube short. 



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

 ions of the leaves numerous, fih'forjn, 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, c^' Bot. Keg. t. 1725; Jiot. Mag. 

 t. 3578. G. grandifiora {Leptosiphon grandifiorus, Benth.) is the same with the 

 tube of the corolla a little longer than usual. 



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



+- +■ Corolla smaller, with a filiform tube S to G times the le^igth of the ovate or oval 

 lobes ; the latter from 1 1 f o 4 li?ies long. 



9. G. androsacea, Steudel. Erect or spreading, 3 to 12 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-ciliato bracts and subtending 

 leaves, tlirico the length of the lobes (these 3 or 4 lines long). — Lrpfosiphon andro- 

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



Var. detonsa, ('ray, 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. rosacens, Ilook f 

 Bot. Mag. t. 5863. 



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

 Nevada. Var. ddonsa, in tl\o mountains of Monterey Co. (/irrmn-) ; also co]|(u-ted by Jln'tffjrs. 

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

 &c. A beautiful species in cultivation. 



10. Q-. 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 sliort and 

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

 Bot. Reg. G. micrajitha, var. aurea, & G. longituba, Benth. PI. Hartw. 324, 325. 



Hillsides, through tlie western part of the State. Passes liy larger-flowered forms {G. longituba, 

 Henth.) into var. rnsarm of the preceding. 



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

 6 to 9 lines long, less slender in pro[)ortion 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. Ilartw. 325. Leptosiphon bicolor, Nutt 

 PI. Gamb. 150, chiefly. 



Dry hillsides, Snnta IWbara to INiget Sound. 



12. G. Ciliata, Benth. 1. c. More rigid and hirsute, a S])an 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-ciliato bracts and subtending leaves, half to three 

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



