PHLOX FAMILY. Polemoniaceae. 
petals fold back in fading. This grows on gravelly slopes 
and summits around Yosemite and in the Northwest, from 
the Rocky Mountains to Nebraska, and its patches of 
pale color are often conspicuous in dry rocky places, or in 
open forests, at an altitude of three to seven thousand feet. 
Very attractive common flowers, with 
_ Sweet many stems, three to eight inches high, 
lam - 
Phiéx longifolia from a woody base. The leaves are 
Pink smooth or somewhat downy, stiffish, pale 
Spring, summer, gray-green and rather harsh, and the 
= flowers are over three-quarters of an inch 
West, etc. : 3 
‘ across, clear pink, of various shades from 
deep-pink to white, with an angled calyx. Only two yellow 
stamens show in the throat and the style is long and 
slender. This grows on hills and in valleys, as far east as 
Colorado, and its pretty flowers are very gay and charming, 
particularly when growing in large clumps in fields or 
beside the road. P. Stdénsburyi, common on the plateau 
in the Grand Canyon, blooming in May, is similar, but has 
sticky hairs on the calyx. 
There are many kinds of Gilia, variable and not easily 
distinguished; the leaves nearly always alternate and thus 
differing from Linanthus; the corolla funnel-form, tubular, 
or bell-shaped, but, unlike Phlox, rarely salver-form and the 
seeds are usually mucilaginous when wet. These plants 
were named for Gil, a Spanish botanist. 
A brilliant biennial or perennial plant, 
varying in general form and color. In 
Utah it is somewhat coarse and usually 
Scarlet Gilia, 
Skyrocket 
Gilia aggregata 
Red has a single, leafy, roughish, rather 
Spring, summer, sticky stem, from one to two feet tall, 
—— purplish towards the top, and thickish, 
Southwest, Utah, 
ae somewhat sticky leaves, deeply lobed and 
cut, in a cluster at the root and alternate 
along the stem, dull bluish-green in color, smooth on the 
under side, with more or less sparse woolly down on the 
upper side, as if partially rubbed off. The flowers have no 
pedicels, or very short ones, and form small clusters in the 
angles of the leaves along the upper part of the stem, but 
are mainly at the top, in a large, handsome, somewhat 
flat-topped, loose cluster. They are each more than half 
an inch across, with a corolla of clear scarlet, the lobes 
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