PHLOX FAMILY. Polemoniaceae. 
venti Gta Exceedingly pretty flowers, with very 
Linénthus dichot- Slender, brown stems, often branching, 
omus (Gilia) from two to twelve inches tall, and a few, 
White rather inconspicuous, dull green leaves. 
Spring 
Catitotel The flowers are an inch or more across, 
ornia i ; 
with a salver-form corolla, with a long 
slender tube, white and beautifully sheeny in texture, 
bordered with dull pink on the outside, showing where the 
petals overlapped in the bud; the stamens and pistil not 
showing in the throat. They havea strong and unpleasant 
odor, but the effect of the airy flowers is beautiful, es- 
pecially in the desert, as they sway to and fro in the wind 
on their slender stalks. They open only in the evening, 
but stay open all night and keep on opening and closing 
for several days, getting larger as they grow older. This is 
common on open slopes and hills, but is variable and not 
easily distinguished from similar species. 
A charming little desert plant, about 
Yellow Gilia : : 
three inches tall, with a very slender, 
Lindénthus . : 
aureus (Gilia) usually smooth, widely branching stem 
Yellow and small, pale green leaves, apparently in 
Spring whorls and cut into very narrow divisions, 
Arizona 
quite stiff and tipped witha bristle. The 
flowers are about half an inch across, bright yellow, with an 
orange-colored “eye’’ and tube, orange anthers and a 
yellow pistil, and they look exceedingly gay and pretty on 
the pale sand of the desert. 
pee A very pretty little plant, slightly hairy, 
florus (Gilia) with a slender stem, from three to ten 
White, pink, lilac inches tall, and clusters of small, stiff, 
Spring — - dark green leaves. The flowers are about 
i haa three-quarters of an inch across, with long, 
threadlike, yellow tubes, sometimes an inch and a half 
long, and white, pink, or lilac petals, with an orange or 
white ‘“eye’’ and often brownish on the outside, with 
yellow anthers and a conspicuously long, yellow pistil. 
This is common throughout California, growing in open 
ground on hillsand sea-cliffs. L. parviflorus var. aciculdris 
is similar, but smaller. The flowers are similar, but often 
have so little white about them that they are yellow in 
general effect, and are sometimes specked with crimson at 
the base of the petals. They grow in sandy places in 
southern California. 
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