
PHLOX FAMILY, Polemoniaceae. 
stems, two or three inches high, and numbers of pretty 
flowers, half an inch across, deep bright blue, with a little 
yellow in the center; the stamens, with bright yellow 
anthers, projecting from the throat. This bravely opens 
its bright blue eyes in the desert wastes of the Petrified 
Forest. 
A little desert plant, about three inches 
Downy Gilia 
Gilia floccésa tall, more or less downy all over, the upper 
Blue leaves and buds covered with soft white 
Spring down and the lower leaves dark green 
Southwest 
and stiff, tipped with a bristle. The tiny 
flowers have a blue corolla, varying from sky-blue to 
almost white, with a yellow throat and white stamens, and 
although they are too small to be conspicuous, the effect 
of the bits of blue on the desert sand is exceedingly pretty. 
This resembles Alpine Phlox in general 
ea cee effect, but the corolla is funnel-form in- 
Gilia pingens stead of salver-form, for the lobes do not 
White spread so abruptly. The many stems are 
Semumer woody below, a few inches high, and 
California 
crowded with leaves, which are dull green, 
stiff, and cut into needle-like divisions, which look like 
single leaves, about half an inch long. The flowers are 
pretty and fragrant, half an inch across, white or pale pink, 
often with purplish streaks on the outside, with rounded 
lobes, the edge of each overlapping the next, and yellow 
anthers, not projecting from the throat of the corolla. 
This forms loose mats on rocky ledges, at high altitudes. 
A rather pretty little plant, about eight 
Gilia multicaulis 
Lilac inches tall, with several slender, slightly 
Spring hairy stems and leaves cut into very 
California 
narrow divisions. The little flowers are 
pale lilac, quite delicate and pretty, though not conspicu- 
ous, and form clusters at the tips of the branches. This 
sometimes grows in quantities in the hills of southern 
California and is variable. 
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