PHLOX FAMILY. Polemoniaceae. 



An unusual-looking, conspicuous, shrub- 

 Large Prickly ' 

 Gilia by plant, suggesting some kind of small 



Cilia Califdrnica prickly pine- or cedar, with lovely flowers. 

 P* nk It forms large straggling clumps, about 



Summer two cet hjgft \\H\-\ many woody stems and 



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rich -green foliage, the leaves cut into small, 



spreading, needle-like lobes, and ornamented with num- 

 bers of brilliant flowers. They are an inch or more across, 

 with bright pink petals and a white "eye," and are most 

 delicate in texture, with a satiny sheen and smelling sweet 

 like violets. This grows on hills and is very beautiful on 

 Mt. Lowe. 



This varies a good deal in color and 

 Cilia 



achillaejdlia beauty. The stems are smooth and 



Blue, white slender, from one to two feet tall, and the 



Spring, summer leaves are alternate, smooth or downy, 

 delicately cut into many fine divisions. 

 The numerous small flowers are funnel-form, with pro- 

 jecting stamens, and form a close round head, which is an 

 inch or more across, without bracts. The calyx is more or 

 less woolly, with sharp triangular teeth, the tips turned 

 back. Usually the flowers are blue of some shade, deep 

 or pale, sometimes forming patches of color in the fields, 

 but the prettiest I have seen grew in the woods near Santa 

 Barbara, the individual flowers larger than usual and pure 

 white, with bright blue anthers. It is common in Yo- 

 semite, but rather dull bluish -white and not pretty. 



Very much like the last, but the flowers 

 Cilia capitata 

 Blue are smaller and form a smaller, more 



Spring, summer compact head. The corollas are blue, with 

 Northwest and narrow petals, varying in tint from pur- 

 California plish-blue to pale lilac, the calyx not woolly, 

 and the cluster is about an inch across, the stamens giving 

 it a fuzzy appearance. The leaves are smooth or slightly 

 downy and the seed-vessels form pretty pale green heads. 

 This is common and sometimes grows in such quantities 

 as to be very effective. 



Cilia muhifldra The general effect of this plant is incon- 



Blue spicuous, though the flowers are quite 



Summer pretty close by. The roughish woody 



Ariz., New Mex. stem ig Qnly & few incheg tall and theQ 



branches abruptly into several long sprays, clothed with 

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