PHLOX FAMILY. Polemoniaceae. 



An unusual-looking, conspicuous, shrub- 

 Large Prickly . 

 Gilia by plant, suggesting some kind of small 



Gt/m Califdrnico, prickly pine or cedar, with lovely flowers. 

 pink It forms large straggling clumps, about 



Summer twQ feet hi ^ with many woo dy stems and 



California ? ,. 



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 

 G aMttaeidlia 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, 

 California 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 multifldra The S eneral effect of this P lant is incon ' 



Blue spicuous, though the flowers are quite 



Summer pretty close by. The roughish wood) 



Ariz., New Mex. stem ig Qnly a few i nc h es tall and ther 

 branches abruptly into several long sprays, clothed witl 

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