Gilia. POLEMONIACE^. 137 



(a quarter inch or less long) : flowers effusely paniculate : calyx-teeth short and broadly 

 triangular : corolla pink purple, short-f unnelf orm, 5 lines long ; its lobes fully as long as 

 the tube, unequal, about equalling the incurved filaments and style. — Proc. Am. Acad. 

 1. c, & Bot. CaUf . i. 621. — With or near the preceding species, Palmer. 



4. G-ILIA, Ruiz. & Pav. (Dedicated to Philip Gil, who helped Xuarez to 

 write a treatise on exotic plants cultivated at Rome.) — North American, chiefly 

 Western, with a few S. American species ; several cult, for ornament. Flowers 

 in some species, especially in § 3 and § 9, tending to dimorphism, mainly in the 

 length of the style. A polymorphous genus : most of the sections have been 

 taken for genera, but they lack definiteness. — Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. viii. 261. 



Series I. Leaves either opposite or palmately divided to the sessile base, 

 usually both ; their divisions from narrowly linear to filiform : seed-coat in many 

 species mucilaginous when wetted, but destitute of spiricles. 



§ 1. Dactylophyllum, Gray, 1. c. Corolla campanulate, rotate, or short-f un- 

 nelform; the lobes obovate : filaments slender: ovules numerous or sometimes 

 few in each cell : seed-coat when wetted developing more or less mucilage-cells 

 from beneath the epidermis : low or slender annuals, loosely and mostly rather 

 small-flowered : leaves opposite or the upper alternate. 



* Flowers subsessile or short-pedicelled in the forks of the stem, at length crowded : calyx deeply 

 cleft or parted, the lobes unequal : corolla campanulate with hardly any proper tube (the filaments 

 inserted on its base); lobes entire or nearly so: plants barely 2 inches high, with 3-7-parted 

 leaves. 



G. Parryae, Gray. Pubescent, much branched from the base, forming a tuft : leaves 

 short, 5-7-parted; the divisions linear-ace rose (barely quarter inch long) : calyx deeply 5- 

 cleft; lobes acerose with broad thin-scarious margins: corolla (white, yellowish or purple, 

 half an inch long) with broadly ovate somewhat pointed lobes as long as the imdivided 

 portion ; the throat below each crowned as it were by a broad adnate and emarginate or 

 obcordate scale: anthers oblong: capsule oval-oblong, many -seeded : seeds angular, not 

 mucilaginous when wetted. — Proc. Am. Acad. xi. 76. G. Kennedyi, Porter in Bot. Gazette, 

 ii. 77. — Desert Plains, S. E. California : near the head of the Mohave, Lemmon, Parry, Pal- 

 mer. Kern Co., W. L. Kennedy. Dedicated to Mrs. Parry, one of the botanical party which 

 discovered it. A handsome pygmy annual ; remarkable for having appendages to the 

 corolla not unlike those of many Hydrophyllaceoe. 



G. demissa, Gray. Less pubescent, diffusely branching, forming a depressed tuft: 

 leaves 3-parted, or some of them simple (half inch long) ; the divisions acerose : calyx 5- 

 parted: corolla (white, sometimes purplish, 3 lines long) with obovate obtuse lobes and a 

 naked throat: anthers oval : ovules 6 or 7 in each cell. — Proc. Am. Acad. viii. 263, & Bot. 

 Calif, i. 489; Rothrock in Wheeler Eep. 1. 19. — Desert plains, S. E. California and W. 

 Arizona to S. Utah, first collected by Fremont, next by Cooper. 



* * Flowers loose or scattered on slender or capillary pedicels : calyx barely 5-cleft :_ corolla shorl- 

 funnelform or approaching rotate, and with entire lobes: the filaments inserted in the throat: 

 anthers oval : leaves 3-7-parted, more or less hispidiilous, or rarely glabrous. — Gilia § Dactylo- 

 phyllum, Benth. in DC. 



G. liniflora, Benth. Erect, at length diffuse, 6 to 18 inches high, nearly glabrous : 

 leaves Spurrey-like ; the divisions nearly filiform : flowers paniculate : pedicels 5 to 15 lines 

 long : corolla white or barely flesh-colored, somewhat rotate ; its throat pubescent at base 

 of the filaments ; the obovate lobes thrice the length of the narrow tube, 3 to 5 lines long 

 in the larger forms : ovules in the cells 6 to 8. — Benth. in Bot. Reg. no. 1622, & DC. 1. c. 

 315 ; Hook. f. Bot. Mag. t. 5895. — California ; rather common ; passing freely into 



Var. pharnaceoides, Gray, 1. c, a smaller form, with capillary diffuse branches 

 and flowers of only half the size. — G. pharnaceoides, Benth. 1. c. ; Hook. Fl. ii. 74, t. 161. 

 — California to Brit. Columbia and eastward to the Rocky Mountains; the smallest states 

 strikingly different from the original G. liniflora. 



G. pusilla, Benth. 1. c. Small, diffuse, 2 to 6 inches high, very slender : divisions of the 

 leaves filiform-subulate or acerose (3 to 5 lines long) : capillary pedicels 6 to 10 lines long : 



