Gilia. rOLEMOXIACE.R |MI 



3. GILIA, Ruiz k Tav. 



Corolla funiu-lforin, salverform, or sometimes sliort-campanulate or rotate, regular. 



Stamens equally inserted in the tube or throat of the corolla; the mostly slender 



filaments sometimes unequal in length, not declined. Ovules and seeds several or 



few or rarely solitary in each cell. Seed-coat, with few exceptions, mucilaginous 



when wetted, and in many with uncoiling spiral threads. — Herbs or sufl'ra'cscent 



plants j with either opposite or alternate and simple or compound leaves, many 



species with showy flowers. 



A somewhat polymorphous genus, of nearly 70 species, belonging to the United States west of 

 the Mississippi, excepting one species to the east of it and two or three in extra-tropical Smith 

 America : several cultivated for ornament. Our species blossom in spring, except in the higher 

 mountains. 



I. All or most of the leaves opposite at least on the main stems, sessile and palmate!// 

 /uirled or rarely entire. {Seeds more or less mucilaginous in water, but with no 

 spiral threads.) 



§ 1. Corolla from short-funne/form to almost rotate; the lobes obovate : filaments 

 slender : anthers oval : ovules man// or sometimes few in each cell : low or 

 slender loosely and mostly small-flowered annuals: the leaves with divisions 

 ji/iforui or setaceous, appearing as if wltorled, or in tfie last species entire. — 

 1 1 \cTYLUPiiYLLUM, Dentil. (§ Dactylophyllum & Dianthoides, Benth.) 



* Flowers short-pedicelled or almost sessile in the forks of the stem: corolla campan- 



ulate, its lobes entire: leaves Z-parted. 



1. Gr. demissa, Gray. Diffusely much branched, rather rigid, barely a span 

 high, profusely-flowered: lobes of the leaves acerose, half an inch lung: lobes of 

 the 5-parted calyx subulate, scariously margined below, unequal, the longer equal- 

 ling the white 5-lobed corolla : stamens included : ovules few in each cell. — Proc. 

 Am. Acad. viii. 263. 



Southeastern borders of the State, near Fort Mohave, Jr. Cooper. Also Southern Utah, Mrs. 

 Tlunnpson, Parry. Upper leaves often alternate. 



* * Flowers on capillary or filiform pedicels, loosely paniculate : corolla from rotate 

 to skort-funnelform, its lobes entire: leaves 3—7-parted, those of the branches fre- 

 qw ntly alti rnati . 



2. G. liniflora, Benth. Erect, or at length diffuse, in the largest forms a fool 

 and a half high, almost glabn.us: divisions of the leaves nearly filiform, Spurrey- 

 liko, about an inch long: if overs |o,,.,e|\ | .inicled : corolla white, rotate when fully 

 open, from lo to C lines in diameter, twice or thrice the length of the calyx, 

 5-ported down to the very Bhorl tube: filaments pubescent at base: ovules 6 or 8 

 in each cell. — Bot. Mag. t. 5895. 



Var. pharnaceoides, Gray, is similar except in the reduced size, in the smaller 

 tonus a span high, with capillary branches : the (sometimes pale flesh-colored) 

 corolla about I lines in diameter. — 0. pharnaceoides, Hook. Kl. ii. 71, t. 101. 



N'.it rare through the western part of the State, in lx>th forms : the small variety extending t" 

 t Iregon and Utah. 



3. Gr. pusilla, Benth. Small, 2 to 6 inches high, a1 length diffuse, often 

 scabrou puberulent: divisions of the leaves filiform-subulate or acerose, less than 

 half an inch long, shorter (mostly much shorter) than the scattered capillar] pedi 

 eels: corolla nearly white, or purplish with yellow throat, between rotate and Bhorl 

 funnelform ; its lobes broadly obovate : filaments uonrlj glabrous at base: ovules 3 

 to 5 in each cell. Corolla \ [ to 2 linos long and Little exceeding the calyx, ; 

 form answering to the Chilian species. 



