_ Gilia 
PHLOX FAMILY. Polemoniaceae. 
iecus Bridie An unusual-looking, conspicuous, shrub- 
Gilia by plant, suggesting some kind of smail 
Gilia Califérnica prickly pine or cedar, with lovely flowers. 
Pink It forms large straggling clumps, about 
Summer two feet high, with many woody stems and 
California 
rich-green fcliage, the leaves cut into small, 
spreading, needle-like lobes, and ornamented with num- 
bers of brilliant flowers. They are an inch or more across, 
with bright pink petals and a white “‘eye,” and are most 
delicate in texture, with a satiny sheen and smelling sweet 
like violets. This grows on hills and is very beautiful on 
Mt. Lowe. 
This varies a good deal in color and 
achillaefolia beauty. The stems are smooth and 
Blue, white slender, from one to two feet tall, and the 
Spring, summer leaves are alternate, smooth or downy, 
aaa delicately cut into many fine divisions. 
The numerous small flowers are funnel-form, with pro- 
jecting stamens, and form a close round head, which is an 
inch or more across, without bracts. The calyx is more or 
less woolly, with sharp triangular teeth, the tips turned 
back. Usually the flowers are blue of some shade, deep 
or pale, sometimes forming patches of color in the fields, 
but the prettiest I have seen grew in the woods near Santa 
Barbara, the individual flowers larger than usual and pure 
white, with bright blue anthers. It is common in Yo- 
semite, but rather dull bluish-white and not pretty. 
*e Very much like the last, but the flowers 
Gilia capitdta 
Blue are smaller and form a smaller, more 
Spring, summer compact head. The corollas are blue, with 
Northwest and narrow petals, varying in tint from pur- 
Caliornis plish-blue to pale lilac, the calyx not woolly, 
and the cluster is about an inch across, the stamens giving 
it a fuzzy appearance. The leaves are smooth or slightly 
downy and the seed-vessels form pretty pale green heads. 
This 1s common and sometimes grows in such quantities 
as to be very effective. 
Gilia multifiora The general effect of this plant is incon- 
Blue spicuous, though the flowers are quite 
Summer pretty close by. The roughish woody 
Ariz., New Mex. tom is only a few inches tall and then 
branches abruptly into several long sprays, clothed with 
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