18 POLEMONIACE, (GILIA FAMILY.) 
Var, decora, Gr. Corolla white or pale violet, with or without a brown-purple 
throat; peduncles longer. 
§ 2. Linanthus, Endl. 
5G. dichotoma, Benth. A span toa foot high, remotely leaved; flowers nearly 
sessile in the forks, or terminating the branches; calyx-tube white scarious; the teeth 
green; corolla white; the lobes from half to nearly an inch long; the tube Snr Ines 
purplish. 
§ 3. Leptosiphon, Endl. 
6. G,. densiflora, Benth. A span to 2 ft. high; leaves in somewhat distant apparent 
whorls; tube of the white or rose-purple corolla about equaling the villous-hirsute bracta 
and calyx; its lobes nearly half an inch long, obovate. 
7. G. androsacea, Steud. Erect or spreading, 3 to 12 inches high; corolla lilac, 
rose, pink or almost white, with a yellow or dark throat; its tube about an inch long. 
Var. rosacea, Gr., is a dwarf tufted form with many rose-red flowers. 
8. G. micrantha, Steud. Slender, about a span high; tube of the corolla very 
slender, 9 to 18 lines long; the lobes 2 or 3 lines long, from yellow to cream color and pale 
purple, or whitish. 
9. G. tenella, Benth. Low and mostly depressed; tube of the corolla 6 to 9 lines 
long, the rose colored or pink lobes barely a line and a half long, the throat yellow; 
bracts and leaves hispidulous-ciliate. 
10. G. ciliata, Benth. More rigid and hirsute than the preceding, a span to a foot 
high; tube of the rose-colored or purple, or in age whitish corolla, little if at all exserted 
beyond the very hirsute or hispid-ciliate bracts and subtending leaves, the lobes only a 
line and a half long. 
# § 4. Leptodactylon, Hook & Arn, 
aie G. Californica, Benth. Two or three feet high, with spreading rigid branches; 
corolla rose-color or lilac, an inch and a half in diameter. 
§5. Navarretia, Gr. 
* Stamens included in the throat of the corolla, 
12. G. squarrosa, Hook & Arn. Rigid, rather stout, becoming muon branched, 
very glandular-viscid, fetid with the odor of askunk; upper leaves and bracts spinescent; 
corolla blue, 4 or 5 lines long. 
* * Stamens more or less exserted; corolla slender, 8 to 5 lines long. Leaves twice pinnatifid. 
13. G. cotulefolia Steud. Rather stout and rigid, a foot or much less in height; 
villous pubescent and minutely glandular; upper bracts spinescent; tube of the violet or 
whitish corolla hardly longer than the calyx; capsule usually 1l-seeded. LExhales the 
odor of Anthemis cotula (MAYWEED). 
14. G, intertexta, Steud. At length diffusely much branched, aspan high, neither 
