138 POLEMONIACE^. Gilia. 



corolla purplish with yellow throat or nearly white, broadly short-funnelform, 2 lines or 

 more long ; the obovate lobes equalling or longer than the campannlate throat and short 

 proper tube : filaments nearly glabrous at base, inserted below the sinuses : ovules 3 to 5 

 in each cell. — Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 1. c — The proper species, with corolla barely 

 exceeding the calyx, Guadalupe Island off Lower Cahfornia, Palnier. (ChiU.) 



Var. Californica, Gray, 1. c. Corolla with larger lobes, 2 or 3 hues long, and 

 twice the length of the calyx. — Bot. Calif, i. 490. G. flipes, Benth. PI. Hartw. 325. — 

 Cahfornia, from the upper Sacramento to Nevada. 

 G. Bolanderi, Gray, 1. c. Like the variety of the foregoing ; but the tube of the 

 (blue- or purple-tinged) corolla long and narrow, almost equalling the narrow cylindra- 

 ceous calyx-tube, rather longer than the oblong lobes along with the very short and shghtly 

 dilated throat: filaments inserted just below the sinuses, glabrous : ovules 2 to 5 in each 

 cell. — California, on dry hills, Sonoma Co., to the Sierra Nevada, Bolander, A. Wood, Mrs. 

 Austin, Mrs. Ames. Corolla 3 or 4 lines long, but tlie comparatively small lobes only aline 

 and a half long. Longer pedicels an inch or so in length. 

 G. aurea, Nutt. Diffusely branched, 2 to 4 inches high : divisions of the hispidulous 

 leaves narrowly linear, barely 3 lines long : pedicels seldom longer than the flower, some- 

 what cymose : corolla mostly yellow, open and short-funnelform ; the rounded obovate 

 widely spreading lobes about as long as the obconical throat and the very short proper 

 tube : filaments inserted just below the sinuses, glabrous at base : ovules about 10 in each 

 cell. — PI. Gamb. 155, t. 22; Gray, 1. c — From Sta. Barbara, California, to Arizona and 

 New Mexico. Corolla with the limb a thkd to half inch in diameter when fully expanded, 

 bright or light yellow, sometimes purplish in the throat ; or, in 



Var. decora, Gray, 1. c, white or pale violet, with or without brown-purple in the 

 tliroat. — California (Fremont, Brewer, &c.) and through Arizona to New Mexico. 

 " # * * Flowers terminating the branches, rather short-pedicelled : corolla short-funnelform, its 

 ample lobes fringe-toothed or denticulate: leaves all undivided and opposite. -i^cnzZia, Benth. 

 Gilia § Bianthoides, Endl. 

 G. dianthoides, Endl. Branching from the base, 2 to 5 inches high, more or less 

 pubescent : leaves narrow-lmear : corolla an inch or more long, lilac or purphsh usually 

 with darker or yellowish throat ; the slender nearly included glabrous filaments inserted 

 towards its base: ovules 12 to 20 in each cell. — Atakt. t. 29; Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4876. 

 FenzUa dianthiflora, Benth. in Bot. Reg. 1. c. F. speciosa (a large^flowered form), & F. 

 concinna (a depauperate state), Nutt. Gamb. 157. — California, from Santa Barbara and the 

 islands southward. A showy Uttle plant, varying greatly in the size and hue of the flowers ; 

 the corolla-lobes in one form (coll. Coulter) only mmutely erose-denticulate. 

 § 2. LinjCnthus, Endl., Benth. Corolla salverform ; the narrow tube about 

 equalling the cylindrical tube of the calyx (which is white-scarious, except the 

 ribs, prolonged into acerose-linear teeth) ; the broadly cuneate-obovate lobes com- 

 monly minutely or obsoletely erose or crenulate, strongly convolute in the bud : 

 stamens included in the tube of the corolla : filaments inserted below its middle, 

 slender: ovules 20 to 40 in each cell: capsule cylindraceous or oblong: erect and 

 slender glabrous annuals, about a span high or taller, with leaves all opposite, 

 filiform or nearly so, 3-5-divided, or the lower simple, sometimes nearly all 

 simple, especially in depauperate specimens : flowers mostly showy, white or 

 nearly so, terminal or in the forks and subsessile. — Linanthus, Benth., formerly. 

 G. dichotoma, Benth. Flowers showy ; the lobes of the corolla from half to nearly 

 an inch long : anthers linear : seeds roundish, with a very loose arilliform external coat, 

 not developing mucilage when wetted. -DC. 1. c. 314; Gray, 1. c. Linanthus dichotomus, 

 Benth. in Bot. Beg. 1. c. Gilia Linanthis, Steud. Nom. — California and Arizona ; common 

 westward. Leaves all entire only in some depauperate specimens. 

 G. Bigelovii, Gray. Flowers inconspicuous ; the lobes of the corolla not over 2 lines 

 long, hardly surpassing those of the calyx and only half or one-third the length of its tube : 

 anthers oval : seeds oval or oblong, with a close coat, freely developing mucilage when 

 wetted. — Proc. Am. Acad. 1. c: 265; Watson, Bot. King, t. 25. G. dichotoma, var. parvi- 

 Jlora, Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. 147. — W. borders of Texas to E. California. 



