498 POLEHONIACE^E. Gilia. 



shorter than the viscid calyx, and the ohovate lobes not longer than the funnel- 

 forni throat: capsule ovoid. — G. achillecefolia, Lindl. Bot. Eeg. t. 1682; Hook. 

 Bot. Mag. t. 3440, not of Benth. G. millefoliata, Fischer & Meyer ; a diffuse cul- 

 tivated form. 



Var. tenera, Gray, 1. c. : a slender, depauperate, few-flowered state, with the 

 peduncles, or at least some of them, one-flowered. — G. striata, Liehmann, Ind. 

 Sem. Hort. Hafn. 1853. 



In dry ground, common throughout the western part of the State. Slender depauperate forms 

 abound in poor soil. 



41. Gr. tricolor, Benth. A span to a foot or two in height, in age diffusely 

 branched : flowers few in the loosely paniculate and rather short-peduncled clusters : 

 pedicels shorter than the viscid-puberulent or rarely glabrous calyx : corolla (one 

 third to half an inch long) with very short proper tube and ample campanulate- 

 funnelform throat, which is pale yellow or orange below, dark purple above,' and the 

 lilac or violet roundish lobes longer than the stamens. — Hort. Trans, vih. t. 1 8 ; 

 Lindl. Bot. Beg. t. 1704 ; Bot. Mag. t. 3463. 



Common through the western part of the State and the foot-hills ; familiar in cultivation. 



42. Gr. tenuiflora, Benth. Commonly a foot high, slender : radical and lower 

 caulme leaves with shorter lobes than in the two preceding species : upper leaves 

 few, small, and simpler : flowers mostly slender-pedicelled in the loose panicle : 

 corolla purple or rose-color, funnelforni with slender tube, 4 or 5 times the length 

 of the calyx (7 to 9 lines long) ; its lobes broadly obovate and longer than the 

 stamens. — Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1888. 



Var. latiflora, Gray, 1. c. : a form with shorter tube to the corolla, more abruptly 

 dilated throat, and broader limb : radical leaves sometimes simply pinnatifid. 

 Dry ground, Monterey to San Diego, &c. The variety, Los Angeles, &c, Fremont, Wallace. 



++ ++ Leaves once or sometimes twice pinnatifid, or merely incised or toothed : flowers 



loosely panicled. 



= Corolla funnelform, from less than a quarter to half an inch long : seeds many. 



43. GJ-. inconspicua, Dougl. A span to a foot high, at length loosely much 

 branched, somewhat viscid or glandular, when young usually a slight woolliness 

 upon the foliage : radical and lower leaves pinnately parted into numerous short 

 oblong or lanceolate and commonly few-toothed or incisely-lobed divisions ; the 

 upper with simple and fewer mostly linear divisions : pedicels some slender and 

 some short or nearly wanting : corolla violet-purple or bluish, twice or thrice the 

 length of the calyx. — Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 2833. Tpomopsis inconspicua, Smith, 

 Exot. Bot. t. 14. Cantua parvi flora, Pursh. This is the smaller-flowered form, with 

 tube of the corolla at first shorter than the calyx, and lobes only a line long. It 

 passes by gradation into 



Var. sinuata, Gray, 1. c, with tube of corolla more slender and exserted, and 

 lobes often 2 lines long : lobes of the radical leaves commonly narrow and entire. — 

 G. sinuata, Dougl. ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. ix. 313. G. arenaria, Benth., appears 

 to be a form of this, from the sea-beach at Monterey, with short ovate lobes to 

 the radical leaves, and a slender corolla-tube, seemingly passing into G. tenuiflora. 



Dry or gravelly ground, common nearly throughout the State and in Oregon, and east through 

 the Eocky Mountain region. 



44. Gr. leptomeria, Gray. A span high, minutely glandular or viscid : leaves 

 mainly in a radical tuft, narrowly oblong (about an inch long), pinnatifid with very 

 short lobes or merely incised ; the cauline small, linear, entire, mostly reduced to 

 bracts of the ample and effuse cymose panicle : pedicels some filiform, some shorter 

 than the calyx : corolla nearly white, \\ to 3 lines long, slender, approaching salver- 

 form, twice or thrice the length of the calyx, the lobes ovate, sometimes repandly 



