496 POLEMONIACE^. Gilia. 



% Perennial, densely-Jioivered. 



32. Gr. COngesta, Hook. Woolly-pubescent, becoming glabrate, tufted, 3 to 12 

 inches Ijigh : leaves petioled, nauch crowded on the short sterile shoots, scattered on 

 the erect flowering stem, thickish, mostly pinnately parted into 3 to 7 shortdinear 

 or oblanceolate divisions, which are not rarely so crowded as to appear palmate or 

 pedate : flowers numerous in solitary or a few corymbose naked and dense heads : 

 corolla Avhite ; its tube hardly longer than the calyx and the oval lobes (these a line 

 or two long) : exserted fllaments as long as the anthers : ovules 2 to 4 in each cell 

 — Fl. ii. 75, &Ic, PI. t. 235. 



Sierra Nevada at 10,000 feet and upwards, in Placer and Nevada Counties {Breurr, Bolandcr, 

 E. L. areene), and on the northern border of the State (Newhcrry) : tlience to Oregon and the 

 Rocky Mountains. The var. erehrifolia. Gray {G. crebrifolia, Nutt.), with entire and more 

 glabrous leaves, occurs in the northeastern part of Nevada. 



* % Annual, low and sjJreading, loosely branched: flowers feiver, more leafy-hracted, 

 in less dense clusters : lobes of the calyx and leaves conspicuously cuspidate-tix>jjed. 



33. G. pumila, Xutt. Slightly woolly-pubescent : leaves narrowly linear, en- 

 tire or with 2 to 4 narrow lobes : tube of the corolla (3 or 4 lines long) about twice 

 the length of its lobes and of the calyxdobes : filaments shorter than the lobes of 

 the corolla : ovules 5 or 6 in each cell. — PI. Gamb. 156. G. trifida, Benth. in 

 Kew Jour. Bot. iii. 291. 



Foot-hills of the Truckee Mountains, Nortliwestern Nevada, Wutson. Thence east to New 

 Mexico and Wyoming. 



34. Gr. polycladon, Torr. Puberulent or sparsely pubescent, with elongated 

 branches leafless lielow : leaves short, spatulate or oblong in outline, incisely pin- 

 natifid into several small and irregular lobes ; those of the branches mainly clustered 

 around the flowers (half an inch long) : corolla barely 2 lines long, its tube hardly 

 exceeding the calyx-lobes : anthers almost sessile in the throat : ovules oidy a pair 

 in each cell. — Bot. Mex. Bound. 147; Watson, Bot. King Exp. 268. 



Mountains on the western borders of Nevada, Watson. Thence east to Utah and the borders 

 of Texas. This and the preceding will doubtless be detected within the State. 



§ 9. Flowers thyrsoid-pd/u'cled, hardly bracteate: corolla (red) salveyform with a long 

 and slii/hfh/ fniiiii Iforni tube, very much surjmssing the calyx: stamens inserted 

 in or below the throat of the corolla, not longer than its lobes : anthers sho?'t : 

 ovules mimerous in each cell: biennials, merely pubescent, with sinnple virgate 

 stem and large shoivy blossoms. — Ipomopsis, Benth. 



35. Gr. aggregata, Spreng. A foot to a yard high : leaves thickish, pinnately 

 parted into 7 in 13 linear niucronulate divisions, or in the upper leaves fewer: 

 flowers in small clusters, disposed in a simple or sometimes branching virgate naked 

 panicle : calyx commonly glandidar ; its lobes subulate : corolla scarlet (varying to 

 pink or rarely white) ; its tube an inch long, 2 to 4 times the length of the ovate- 

 lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate acute soon recurved-spreading lobes : filaments slen- 

 der.— Don, Brit. Fl. Gard. ser. 2, t. 218 [Cantua aggregata, Pursh). G. jyulchella, 

 Dougl in Hook. Fl. ii. 74. Ii:>omopsis elegans, Lindl. Bot. Peg. t. 1281. — Iiuns 

 into various forms, of which the most marked is 



Var. Bridgesii, Gray, 1. c. : a rather low form, loosely somewhat few-flowered : 

 corolla said to be jMirple: calyx-lobes short and broadly triangular-subulate or ovate- 

 deltoid : lobes of the leaves very obtuse, seldom mucronulate. 



Eocky ravines, &c., Sierra Nevada, throughout its length, to Oregon and Idaho, and east to tlie 

 Eocky Mountains. The variety collected only by Bridges, — station in California unkno\\^l, — but 

 various specimens of the Sierra Nevada approach it. Flowers "very fragrant," even more showy 

 than those of the related G. coronopifolin, of the Southern Atlantic States. Stamens in some in- 

 dividuals included, in others conspicuously exserted ; these with style equally or even more 

 exserted. 



