PHLOX FAMILY. Polemomaceae. 



shading at base to white, finely streaked with crimson and 

 prettily fringed at the tips. The stamens are equally or 

 unequally inserted in the corolla throat, the buds are 

 prettily twisted and fringed at the tips and usually have 

 a dark purplish calyx. Sometimes the flowers are all 

 scattered along the stalk, making a wand of bloom. This 

 grows on mountain sides and sometimes has a very dis- 

 agreeable smell, hence the local name of Polecat Plant. 

 In Yosemite it is much more delicate in character, with 

 several, smooth or downy, reddish, leafy stems, from one to 

 four feet high, from a branched base, bearing very graceful 

 clusters of flowers, the petals of various shades of scarlet, 

 pink, and crimson, often streaked with white, or yellowish 

 dotted with red, their long points curled back. Often the 

 buds are scarlet and the flowers pink, giving a very vivid 

 effect. The protruding stamens are inserted in the notches 

 between the lobes of the corolla, with red or pink filaments 

 and yellow or purple anthers. This has the look of a hot- 

 house flower and is very beautiful and striking when 

 growing in masses in high mountain woods. This has 

 several common names which are very misleading, such as 

 Wild Cypress and Wild Honeysuckle* There are several 

 named varieties. It grows in the Southwest and also from 

 British Columbia to New Mexico. 



A beautiful kind, with rather hairy, 

 Bird's Eyes , . . , 



Cilia tricolor branching stems, from six inches to over 



White and purple a foot tall, and dull green, rather hairy 

 and yellow leaves, prettily cut into long narrow lobes. 



The floweis are in clusters, sweet-scented 

 and beautifully marked, with corollas a 

 half-inch or more in length, open funnel-shaped, with a 

 yellow tube marked by a white border, and two dark 

 purple spots in the throat below each of the blue or whitish 

 corolla-lobes, forming an "eye." The calyx lobes often 

 have purple margins, the anthers are bright blue, with 

 lilac filaments, and the pistil is lilac. This is common on 

 low hills in western California. 



A strange little desert plant, stunted- 

 Blue Desert Gilia , , .... ^ , 

 Cilia rigidula looking but with brilliant flowers, forming 



Blue low, prickly clumps of stiff, dry, dull 



Summer green, needle-like foliage, suggesting cush- 



Arizona Q .faTsh moss, with numerous wood}' 



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