Po lemon iacece Gilia. 



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Spanish botanist. The following are the species usually known 

 in gardens under this name, and in these the corolla-tube is 

 very short, scarcely exceeding the calyx-lobes. 



1 . G. capitata. An erect annual from 2 to 3 feet high with 

 deeply lobed and dissected sessile leaves and terminal dense 

 heads of small blue flowers on long naked peduncles. A native 

 of California. 



2. 0. tricolor. A slender glabrous annual about a foot 

 high. Leaves bipinnately divided into narrow linear segments. 

 Flowers about 8 or 10 lines in diameter, 2 to 4 together at the 

 ends of the branches, purple and lilac with a deeper shade in 

 the centre. This is a very pretty plant, of which there are 

 several varieties in gardens. Also from California. 



3. G. diantholdes, syn. Fenzlia diantholdes. A dwarf 

 tufted branching annual about 6 inches high, with simple 

 linear often opposite leaves and solitary terminal rosy lilac 

 flowers having 5 dark purple spots around the centre. A 

 native of California. 



The next sub-genus is Leptosiphon, so named from the 

 long slender tube of the corolla. The species are all dwarf 

 annuals, rarely exceeding a foot 

 in height, and often not more 

 than 3 or 4 inches. They are 

 charming little subjects, with 

 extremely slender stems and 

 deeply palmately divided leaves 

 with narrow linear segments, and 

 terminal corymbose heads of 

 brightly coloured flowers. L. 

 Androsaceus (fig. 173) has rosy 

 purple, lilac or white flowers ; L. 

 densiflbrus is a similar plant 

 with rather larger pale purple or 

 white flowers ; L. lutms, small 

 yellow or orange-cploured flowers, 

 according to the variety ; and L. 

 roseus has delicate rose-coloured 

 flowers. There are also many 

 very elegant and beautiful hybrid varieties between the fore- 

 going species. 



Leptoddctylon Calif ornicum is a charming little undershrub 

 from California, and is well adapted for planting out in earlv 



Fig. 173. Leptoaiphon Androsaceus. 

 (i nat. size.) 



