490 POLEMONIACE^E. . Gilia. 



Var. Californica, Gray, 1. c, has corolla 3 lines long, twice the length of the 

 calyx, and throat often brownish : peduncles frequently an inch long. — G. filipes, 

 Benth. PL Hartw. 325. 



Not uncommon in the western part of the State ; and in Nevada and Utah ( Watson), both 

 the smaller and the larger flowered forms ; the latter predominating. 



4. Gr. Eolanderi, Gray, 1. c. Very like the preceding : but the tube of the 

 blue or purple-tinged corolla longer and narrower, about equalling the narrow 



•and cylindraceous calyx-tube, and Tather longer than the limb (consisting of the 

 oblong lobes and a very short slightly dilated throat) : filaments inserted just below 

 the sinuses : ovules 2 to 5 in each cell. 



Dry hills, Sonoma Co. (JBolander) to Plumas Co., Mrs. PiUsifer Ames. Corolla 3 or 4 lines 

 long : peduncles 4 to 12 lines long. 



5. G. aurea, Nutt. Diffuse, 2 to 4 inches high : divisions of the roughish 

 hispidulous leaves narrowly linear, a quarter of an inch long : peduncles shorter or 

 little longer than the flower, corymbose : corolla usually yellow, open and short- 

 funnelform, half an incli or less in diameter ; the roundish-obovate lobes about 

 the length of the obconical throat and the short proper tube : filaments inserted 

 just beneath the sinuses, glabrous : ovules about 10 in each cell. — PL Gamb. 

 155, t. 22. 



Var. decora, Gray, 1. c. : corolla white or pale violet, with or without brown- 

 purple in the throat : peduncles sometimes elongated. 



Santa Barbara to the Mohave, and thence to New Mexico. The variety on Monte Diablo 

 (Brewer), and in the southern part of the State, Fremont, &c. 



* * * Floiuers mostly short-peduncled terminating the branches: corolla with f ringed- 

 toothed lobes : leaves all opposite and entire. 



6. Gr. dianthoides, Endl. An inch to a span high, minutely pubescent or 

 almost glabrous, the stronger plants fastigiately or diffusely branched from the base : 

 leaves filiform-linear, obtuse : corolla lilac or pale purple with darker or yellowish 

 throat ; the ample lobes cuneate-obovate, fimbriately or erosely toothed round the 

 broad summit, longer than the short-funnelform tube : ovules 10 to 20 in each cell. 

 — Atakt. Bot. t. 29; Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 314; Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4876. 

 Fenzlia dianthiflora, Benth. in Bot. Beg. F. spieciosa & F. concinna, Xutt. PL 

 Gamb. 157. 



Common from Santa Barbara to San Diego, and on Catalina Island. A charming little plant, 

 with abundance of comparatively large blossoms ; the corolla less than an inch long. 



§ 2. Corolla salverform, but the tube shorter than the calyx ; the broad cuneate-obovate 

 lobes slightly crenulate, strongly convolute in cestivation : stamens inserted low 

 on the tube of the corolla and included in it : ovules many in each cell : capsule 

 narrowly oblong : erect and very glabrous annuals : leaves opposite and entire 

 or 3 - 5 -divided and seemingly ivhorled. — Linanthus, Endl. 



7. Gr. dichotoma, Benth. 1. c. Erect, a span to a foot high, remotely leaved : 

 leaves or their divisions filiform : flowers nearly sessile in the forks or terminating 

 the branches : calyx, with cylindrical tube (5 lines long) wholly white-scarious 

 except the 5 filiform green ribs, which are continued into acerose-linear lobes : 

 corolla white, large and showy (the lobes from half to nearly a full inch long) : 

 anthers linear : seeds globular, with a loose cellular outer coat, unchanged when 

 wet ! — Linanthus dichotomus, Benth., formerly. 



Dry or moist ground, nearly throughout the western part of the State. Tube of the corolla 

 sometimes purplish. 



G. Bigelovii, Gray, 1. c. (Watson, Bot. King Exp. t. 25), which occurs from Arizona and 

 Utah to the borders of Texas, is distinguished by its much smaller flowers, the lobes of the corolla 

 only 2 lines long and hardly exceeding the calyx, and the oval or oblong seeds have a close coat, 

 developing mucilage when wetted. 



