GENUS 3. PHLON FAMILY. 
4. Gilia spicata Nutt. Spicate Gilia. [ig. 3475. 
Gilia spicata Nutt. Journ, Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. (11) 1: 
156, 1848. 
Perennial, woolly-tomentose; stems erect, rather stout, 
simple, solitary, or 2-4 from the woody root, 6-18" high, 
Leaves alternate, narrowly linear, pinnately parted into 
3-5 linear segments, or some or many of them entire, 
1-2’ long; flowers in an elongated narrow. spicate 
thyrsus, sessile in small clusters, purplish, 4’-6” long; 
tube of the corolla somewhat exceeding the calyx, con- 
siderably longer than the ovate-oblong lobes; calyx- 
lobes acuminate; anthers equally inserted in the throat. 
In dry soil, western Nebraska to Wyoming and Utah. 
May-Aug. 
5. Gilia iberidifélia Benth. Round-headed 
Gilia. Fig. 3476. 
Gilia iberidifolia Benth. in Hook. Kew. Journ. Bot. 
3: 200. 1858, 
Perennial by a deep root, woolly-tomentose, at 
least when young, branched from the base or also 
above, 3-18 high. Leaves mostly petioled, $’-2’ 
long, pinnately divided into 3-9 narrowly linear 
sharp-pointed segments, or the uppermost entire; 
flowers white, densely capitate-clustered, 2’’-3” 
long, the clusters bracted by the upper leaves. 
¥-1' broad, sometimes corymbed; calyx-lobes 
awn-like: corolla-tube about the length of the 
calyx, slightly longer than the oval lobes; fila- 
ments equally inserted in or below the sinuses of 
the corolla; ovules I-4 in each cavity. 
In dry soil, South Dakota to Nebraska, Colorado, 
California, Montana and Idaho, In our first edition 
included in the similar G. congesta Hook, May-Aug. 
6. Gilia phbmila Nutt. Low Gila. Fig. 3477. 
Gilia pumila Nutt. Journ, Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. (IL) 
tr: 156, 1848. 
Annual, branched from the base and sometimes 
also above, Woolly at least when young, 3-8’ high. 
Leaves alternate, thick, 3-1’ long, pinnately di- 
vided into linear mucronulate sometimes lobed 
segments, or the uppermost entire: flowers in 
dense or at length looser simple or compound 
eymes, sessile: corolla 3/4” long, its tube about 
3 times the length of the lobes and twice as long 
as the calyx: calyx-lobes awn-like: stamens in- 
setted in or below the sinuses of the corolla, 
somewhat exserted: ovules 5 or 6 in each cavity. 
In dry soil, western Nebraska to Texas, Idaho, 
Nevada and New Mexico. April-June, 
Gilia tricolor Benth., of California, admitted into 
our first edition as recorded escaped from gardens to 
roadsides at Lincoln, Nebraska, is not known to have 
become established within our area, 
