248 POLEMONIACE^. (POLEMONIUM FAMILY.) 



4. P. canescens, Torr. & Gray. More lanate and canescent : leaves im- 

 bricated, soon recurved-spreading above the appressed base : tube of the white 

 corolla at length exceeding the calyx ; the obovafe lobes entire or emarginate. — 

 Pacif. R. Rep. ii. 8. From Wyoming and Colorado to the mountains of New 

 Mexico and California. 



•i- t- Leaves rigid, destitute of woolly or cobwebby, hairs, the margins naked or 

 ciliate with rigid or rather soft hairs : plants either densely or loosely tufted : 

 the leaves mostly less crowded. 



5. P. esespitosa, Nutt. Leaves linear-subulate or oblong-linear, commonly 

 much crowded, hispid-ciliate, otherwise glabrous or Avith some short glandular- 

 tipped hairs : corolla with tube somewhat exceeding the calyx. — Jour. Acad. 

 Philad. vii. 41. Mountains of Colorado, Montana, and westward. Occurs 

 under several dwarfed forms. 



6. P. Douglasii, Hook. Less densely tufted, either pubescent or nearly 

 glabrous : leaves acerose or narrowly linear subulate, less rigid and usually less 

 crowded, of en spreading, their margins hirsutely ciliate next the base or naked : 

 flowers subsessile or short-peduncled : corolla (purple, lilac, or white) with tube 

 exceeding the calyx. — From ^Montana to Utah, Colorado, and westward. 



Var. longifolia, Gray. A rigid form, of more arid regions, and long and 

 narrow less fascicled leaves. — Proc. Am. Acad. viii. 254. W. Nebraska to 

 Oregon and California. 



* * Loosely tufied or many -stemmed from a merely icoody-persistent base, ivith 

 linear or lanceolate spreading leaves, which are little if at all fascicled in the 

 axils : flowers slender-peduncled. 



7. P. longifolia, Nutt. Nearly glabrous or pubescent, much branched or 

 many-stemmed, 3 to 8 inches high : leaves mostly narrowly linear, 1 to 2^ 

 inches long: calyx more or less angled by the white-membranaceous replicate 

 sinuses: lobes of the rose-colored or white corolla obovate- or oblong-cuneate, 

 entire or retuse : style long and slender. — Jour. Philad. Acad. vii. 41. From 

 Colorado to INIontana and westward. 



Var. brevifolia, Gray. A depressed or dwarf form ; with leaves 3 to 

 4 lines long, rigid and with more cartilaginous margins, at least the lower 

 lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate. — Proc. Am. Acad. viii. 254. 



8. P. nana, Nutt. Glandular and roughish-pubescent, loosely and copi- 

 ously branching, a span or more high : leaves linear, 1 to 2 inches long, those 

 of the branches often alternate : flowers scattered or somewhat corymbose : 

 calyx not at all angled: lobes of the rose-red or white corolla ample and 

 broadly cuneate-obovate or roundish, entire or nearly so : style very short. — 

 PI. Gamb. 153. From S. Colorado to New Mexico and Texas. 



2. G I L I A, Ruiz & Pav. 



A large and variable genus, broken up into many ill-defined sections, 

 which are sometimes considered genera. Includes Collomia, Nutt., formerly 

 separated by its unequally inserted stamens and solitary ovules, but both 

 characters have failed. — Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. viii. 261 ; Ibid. xvii. 223, 

 foot-note. 



