CtWo. I'OLEMUNIACE.E. 49", 



dilated apo.x, niore or less incised, all the teeth or lobcvs and here and there the even 

 margins beset witli very long white bristles, many of the lower in pairs : oalyx-lobes 

 sinnlarly setose-tipped : corolla pnrple or purplisii, G to 9 lines long : ovules several 

 or rarely few in each cell. — Navarretia setosissima, Torr. ct Giay, in Ives Colorado 

 Exp. 22. N. Scholtii, Torr. But. Mex. Bound. 145, a small form. 



Gravelly plains, on the Rio Colorado and the Mohave, and Providence Mountains (Coulter 

 Newberry, Coo))er, he), extending to Southern Utah. 



§ 7. Flowers, in/lorescetice, ttc, nearly as in the forer/oinp section ; but the anthers 

 loiif/er and always exserted : corolla (salver/orni) more conspicuous : ]>laii(s nil 

 white loith Jloccose wool, at least when youn(j, and neither r/landtUar nor viscid. 

 — IIUORLIA {Hurjelia, JJenth. in Bot. Keg. Gilia § I'lwjelia Si Psendocol- 

 lomia, Eenth. in DC). 



* Hoot jierennial : stems woody at the base : -anthers linear-sagittate : ovules several. 



28. G. densifolia, Benth. A foot or two in liQight : stems virgate from a woody 

 base, leafy to the top : leaves rigid, linear, iaciniate-pinnatifid or incised ; the short 

 lobes few or several, sulmlato : flowers ninnorous in a compact head : corolla over 

 lialf an inch in length, vi()l(!t-l)luo, two or throo tiinoa Uio length of tlio calyx (tlio 

 lobes 3 lines long): anthers linear. — llngelia densifolia (a short stout form) and 

 //. elongnta, Benth. 



Dry hills, from Santa Clara Co. to the Mohave, and in Southern Nevada. 

 * * Root annual : stems slender, at length loosely brnnehed, a foot or less in heir/ht ■ 

 leaves and their few {if any) divisions flUform : Jlowers rather few in the small 

 clusters. 



29. Q. virgata, Steudel. At first strict and simple-stemmed, at length branched 

 from the base or throughout, sometimes glabrate : tube of the IjIuo corolla lon^rer 

 than the calyx : anthers (when dry) linear, deeply sagittate, a lino long : ovules 2"to 

 in each cell. — Jhigelia virgata, Benth. ; Hook. Ic. PI. t. 200. 



Var. floribunda, Gray, 1. c. Low and rather stout : even the upper leaves 

 pmnately 3 - 7-parted : the numerous heads and flowers fully as laroe as those of 

 G. densifolia. '^ 



q„!?f?rV"'' -l^^"';;"'' "y *" f '^" P'^«°,'':"|, ^"^"t to the Rio Colorado. Tho rcnmrkal.lo variety from 

 Santa Clara to. (Brewer) to Tojon, 1] nllace. 



30. O. flOCOOSa, Gray, 1. c. Smaller tlian the ])rncoding : leaves mostly entire • 

 corolla about 4 linos long, blue or becoming white Cprobably never "yellow")- 

 anthers hnoar-oblong (barely half a lino in length) : ovules l' to 4 in each cell. — 

 Hugelia lutea, Benth. in Bot. Reg. Gilia lutescens, Steu.lel ; Benth. in DC. (But 

 the ilowers were doubtless bluish, faded to dull white.) 



neS'MonteX'^"'' "^ ^^^ ^^^^' ^™"' ^^^ ^^°^''^^' *" *^' '^''"'^''' ^'•' """^ "^'* *° ^^'''''- "^^'^ 

 31 G. filifoUa, Nutt. Like the preceding, but more rigid : leaves mostly 

 3-pai-ted : corolla blue or bluish, little if at all exserted : anthers oval, very .small : 

 ovules 4 to 6 in each cell. — PI. Gamb. l.^G ; Gray, 1. c. 



ancfNevadrVhut'^^H^"''''^^^^^^ ^^^''''^'''^■^' <« the Mohave (Cooper). Arizona, 



to distinguish preceding probably run together, and all these annual species are hard 



§ 8. Flowers capitate-crowded or somewhat looser, bracteate : corolla white or pur- 

 plish, salverform, mostly with a short tube: stamens shorter than the lobes of 

 the corolla, inserted in or near the sinuses .- anthers short : Idbes of the calyx 

 and of the leaves tipped with an awn-like but not jmngent cusp : low biennials, 

 annuals, or short-lived perennials, usually visrid-jmbescent with vian //-Jointed 

 hairs, and with simply jjinnatifld or entire leaves. — Elaimiockra, Nutt. 



