106 SYNOPSIS OF THE FLORA OF COLORADO. 



viscid- pubescent, becoming- glabrate below, glandular above; .stems erect, 

 simple or brandling, 6' -IS 1 high; leaves sessile, lanceolate, very entire; 

 heads crowded; lobes of the calyx triangular-lanceolate, acute; corolla, 

 light blue or nearly white, 6" long, slender, but little enlarged at the 

 throat, the limb small; ovules solitary; seeds with very numerous spi- 

 racles. Hall & Harbour, 404. Canon City, Kramle-gee. Monument Park 

 and plains of the Platte, Coulter. 



COLLOMIA GrRACiLis, Dougl. Gr. Rev. I. c., 259. Annual, viscid-pubes- 

 cent, at length much branched and spreading, 2'-6 / high; leaves sessile, 

 lanceolate or linear or the lowest oval or obovate, entire; flowers rather 

 loosely cymose or scattered; calyx rounded at the base and nearly 

 5-parted, with linear-subulate segments ^corolla 5" long, purple or violet, 

 nearly salver-form, the narrow tube yellowish and seldom exceeding the 

 calyx; seeds without spiracles. Hall d* Harbour. 403. Plains near Den- 

 ver, Coulter. 



COLLOMIA LONGiFLOHA, Gr. Gr. Rev. 1. e., 261. Annual, very smooth, 

 erect, 6'-2 high, much branched, panicnlately ramose, loosely flowered; 

 peduncles 1-flowered, generally slender, subcorymbose ; leaves apiculate, 

 piunately 3-7-parted, segments linear or almost filiform; lobes of the 

 calyx shorter than the tube, subulate; corolla white, salver- form, tube 

 very long, JV-18", not widened above, lobes orbicular or ovate, some- 

 times apiculate at the apex; filaments included, sometimes 2-3 unequally 

 inserted at the throat; anthers oblong, cells about 10-12-ovuled. On the 

 plains around Denver, Dr. Smith. Colorado Springs, Porter. Canon 

 City, Brandegce. 



GiLiA 1 NUDICAULLS, Gr. Gr. Rei\ I c.,266. Annual, very glabrous, 

 l'-4' high; stem leafless from the cotyledons to the capitate inflorescence 

 which is subtended by an involucre of several ovate-lanceolate or lanceo- 

 late, sessile, entire, foliaceous bracts, from whose axils sometimes 1 or 2 

 smaller heads are produced on short peduncles; corolla white, pink or 

 yellow, salver-form, tube 2 // -3 // long, slender, exceeding the calyx, the 

 cuneate lobes l"-2" long, somewhat undulate-toothed or decidedly 1-3 

 dentate at the broad apex; anthers sessile in the someAvhat dilated 

 throat, short, included; ovaries numerous. South Park. Hall. 



GILIA XUTTALLII, Gr. Gr. Rev. 1. c., 267. Puberuleiit; stems nu- 

 merous from a perennial woody base, slender, simple or loosely branched, 

 8 / -12 / high ; leaves opposite, mostly shorter than the internodes, pal- 

 mately-parted into 3-7 narrow-linear, mucronate or acerose segments, 

 G'M)" long ; flowers crowded into a leafy cluster ; corolla white with a 

 yellow throat, fragrant, salver-form, with a short dilated funnel- form 

 throat, the tube puberuleiit, scarce exceeding the narrow calyx : fila- 

 ments short, inserted in the throat, scarcely exserted ; anthers ovate-ob- 

 long; cells 2-ovuled. Figured by Watson, King's, Rep., vol. .">. PL 

 25. Near Mount Lincoln, Coulter. 



GILIA PUNGENS, Beuth. Gr. Rev. 1. c., 268. Viscid-pubescent, puber- 

 tilent or glabrate, much branched from woody stems ; leaves alternate, 

 short, erect or a little spreading, rigid, fascicled in the axils, palmately 

 3-7-parted, segments entire and with the calyx-lobes acerose or subulate 

 and pungent ; flowers solitary or few in a terminal cluster ; corolla pink, 

 white or yellow, salver-form, tube at length longer than the calyx, the 



J GiLiA, Ruiz. & Pav. Corolla from salver- form or funnel-form to compannlate or 

 rotate. Stamens equally inserted in or below the throat or sinuses of the corolla and 

 mostly equal; filaments not declined, naked (rarely pubescent) at the base. Ovules 

 sometimes solitary, commonly few or many in each cell. Seed-coat (with few excep- 

 tions) developing mucilage or spiracles when wetted. Herbs, or in a-few cases. siillrn- 

 Ticose; leaves, &c., various. 



