Gilia. POLEMOXIACE.E. 401 



§ 3. Corolla salverform, mostly with a filiform el tube, and the throat some- 



times abruptly d\ in the tkr •ijiee : anthers 



short: ovules numerous: erect annuals, icith /■ 



handsome but sank ! led in a terminal capitate cluster. 



— Leptosiphon, EndL [Leptosiphon, Benth., formerly.) 



* Stems leafy: sessile It ately 5 — 7-pari seemingly whirled. 



-,',-led in the axils; their divisions Hnear-fUij 'arm : jilan r less 



'heir length and that of the Stylt in different individuals, i. e. 



dim 



-T- Corolla comparatively large and its tube short. 



8. G. densiflora, Benth. A span to 2 feet high, rather stout and strict : divis- 

 numerous, filiform, rather rigid, in somewhat distant apparent 

 whorls : t fthe white or rose-purple corolla little if at all ex - the villons- 



hirsute bracts and calyx : its lobes nearly half an inch long, obovate. — Leptot 



. Benth. in Hort. Trans. 1834. t. 18, & Bot Reg. t. 1725 ; Lot. Mag. 

 t. 3578. G. grand! fora (Leptosiphon grandiflorus, Benth.) is the same with the 

 ilia a little longer than usual. 

 Sandy soil, through the western part of the State from San Francisco Bay southward. 



-H ■*- Corolla smaller, with a filiform tube 3 to 6 times the length of the ovate or oval 

 lobes ; the latter from 1 1 to 4 lines long. 



G. androsacea Steudel Erect or spreading, 3 to 12 inches high : corolla 



ilmost white, with a yellow or dark throat ; its tube (about an 



inch long) much exserted beyond the hirsute or villous-ciliate bracts and subtending 



the length of the lob 3 or i lines long). — Leptosiphon andro- 



. Benth. 1. c. t. 18, & Bofc Reg. t. 1710 : Hook. Dot. Mag. t. 3491. 



Var. detonsa, Gray, 1. c. : a slender and almost glabrous form, the bracts and 



a merely hispidulous-cDiate. 

 Var. rosacea : a dwarf and more tufted form, only a span high, very florifer- 

 _ it rose-red corolla. — Leptosiphon parvirlorus, var. rosace us, Hook. f. 



Hillsides, throughout the western part of th - up to the higher foot-hills of the Sierra 



I 

 An interni.tii.ite form I City, Anderson. Var. rosacea, near San F 



iltivation. 



10. G. micrantha SI leL Slender, at length diffuse, about a span high : 



stremely slender (three fourths to an inch and a half ] 

 G tin. _ lines long, from yellow to cream-color 



and pale purple or whitish : pubescence of the bracts and upper le I and 



id L, Benth. Benth. in 



Reg. G. micrantha, var. aurea, & G. I Benth. PL Hartw. 324, 325. 



Hillsides, through the western part of tl - -flowered for 



11. G tenella, Benth. Low and mostly depressed, small : tube of th rolla 



ider in proportion t.> the size of the limb (the latter 

 or pint with a yellow tin lv a line and a half I 



iliat>-. — PL Hartw. 325. Leptosiphon bieolor, Nutt. 

 PL Gamb. L56, chiefly. 

 Dry hQlsid - rhnrn to I' 



12. G. ciliata. i ; nth. !. c. M ire rigi 1 and hirsute, a span t" a fool high : tul»- 

 of tli r purple or at length whitish corolla little if at all exserted be 

 yond the very hirsute "r liispid-ciliate bracts and subti uding leaves, half t.. three 

 quarter- of an inch long, thi lobes only a line and a hall I 



