PHLOX FAMILY, Polemoniaceae. 
many very small, narrow, pointed, thickish, dull green 
leaves and ornamented towards the end with small clusters 
of flowers, which are lilac or blue, marked with purple 
lines, less than half an inch across, with five irregular 
lobes and blue anthers. This grows at the Grand Canyon 
and in dry open places in the mountains. 
There are several kinds of Collomia, almost all annuals; 
leaves alternate, usually toothless; flowers in clusters; 
differing from Gilia and Linanthus in the calyx, which 
increases in size as it grows older; corolla tube-shaped, 
funnel-form, or salver-form, with spreading lobes; stamens 
unequally inserted on the corolla-tube, with unequal 
filaments; seeds usually mucilaginous. 
Very pretty flowers, which attract at- 
Collémia grandi- 
flora: (Gilia) tention because of their unusual coloring. 
Buff The leafy stem is from one to two feet 
Summer tall and slightly downy and the leaves are 
Cal., Utah, Wash. senerally toothless, smooth, and rather 
dark green. The flowers form a roundish terminal cluster, 
which is about two inches across, surrounded by broad 
bracts, which are sticky to the touch. The corolla is 
funnel-form, about an inch long, various shades of buff or 
salmon-color, and as the downy buds are yellow, the newly- 
opened flowers buff, and the older ones pinkish or cream- 
white, the combinations of color are odd and effective. 
This is quite common in Yosemite, in warm situations, and 
much cultivated in Germany. It is sometimes called Wild 
Bouvardia, but this is a poor name, as it is that of a plant 
belonging to an entirely different family. 
See oe, From six inches to over a foot tall, with 
Collomia linearis 
(Gilia) a rather stout, very leafy stem, more or 
Pink less branching, and alternate leaves, 
Summer smooth, toothless, and rather dark green, 
West 
the upper stems and buds hairy and sticky. 
The flowers have no pedicels and narrow funnel-form or 
salver-form corollas, bright pink, about a quarter of an 
inch across, and are crowded in roundish clusters, at the 
tips of the leafy branches, the larger clusters toward the 
top. Though the tiny flowers are bright and pretty this is 
not an effective plant. It grows in dry, open, sandy 
places and the foliage has a rather disagreeable smell when 
crushed. 
400 
