PHLOX FAMILY. Polemoniaceae. 



petals fold back in fading. This grows on gravelly slopes 

 and summits around Yosemite and in the Northwest, from 

 the Rocky Mountains to Nebraska, and its patches of 

 pale color are often conspicuous in dry rocky places, or in 

 open forests, at an altitude of three to seven thousand feet. 

 Very attractive common flowers, with 

 Willl SWCet man Y stems, three to eight inches high, 



from a wood y base ' The leaves are 



Pink smooth or somewhat downy, stiffish, pale 



Spring, summer, gray-green and rather harsh, and the 



autumn flowers are over three-quarters of an inch 



West, etc. . , , . 



across, clear pink, of various shades from 



deep-pink to white, with an angled calyx. Only two yellow 

 stamens show in the throat and the style is long and 

 slender. This grows on hills and in valleys, as far east as 

 Colorado, and its pretty flowers are very gay and charming, 

 particularly when growing in large clumps in fields or 

 beside the road. P. Stdnsburyi, common on the plateau 

 in the Grand Canyon, blooming in May, is similar, but has 

 sticky hairs on the calyx. 



There are many kinds of Gilia, variable and not easily 

 distinguished; the leaves nearly always alternate and thus 

 differing from Linanthus; the corolla funnel-form, tubular, 

 or bell-shaped, but, unlike Phlox, rarely salver-form and the 

 seeds are usually mucilaginous when wet. These plants 

 were named for Gil, a Spanish botanist. 



A brilliant biennial or perennial plant, 

 Scarlet Gilia, varying in general form and color. In 

 Skyrocket TT , . . 



Cilia aggres&ta Utah lt 1S somewhat coarse and usually 

 Red has a single, leafy, roughish, rather 



Spring, summer, sticky stem, from one to two feet tall, 



autumn purplish towards the top, and thickish, 



Southwest, Utah, r 



etc somewhat sticky leaves, deeply lobed and 



cut, in a cluster at the root and alternate 

 along the stem, dull bluish-green in color, smooth on the 

 under side, with more or less sparse woolly down on the 

 upper side, as if partially rubbed off. The flowers have no 

 pedicels, or very short ones, and form small clusters in the 

 angles of the leaves along the upper part of the stem, bu 

 are mainly at the top, in a large, handsome, somewha 

 flat-topped, loose cluster. They are each more than hal 

 an inch across, with a corolla of clear scarlet, the lobe 

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