452 P0LEM0N1ACE.E phlox 



CANTUA 



entire or barely retuse, 6 lines long: ovnle3 2 in each cell. Along the 

 Columbia river from The Dalles eastward. 



P. longifolia Nutt. Jour. Acad. Philad. vL, 41. Nearly glabrous to 

 pubescent, much branched or many-stemmed from a woody base, 3-8 inches 

 high: leaves mostly narrowly linear, 1-3 inches long: calyx more or less 

 angled by the white-membranaceous replicate sinuses: lobes of the corolla 

 obovate or oblong- cuneate, entire or retuse, 3-5 lines long: ovules almost 

 always solitary in the cells. Dry plains, eastern Oregon to Brit. Columbia 

 and the Rocky Mountains. 



P, Stansburyi Heller P. longifoliavar. Stansburyi Gray. Conspicuously 

 pubescent throughout, or sometimes glabrate, generally stoutish and some- 

 what open in growth,, 6-8 inches high: leaves from linear to linear-lanceolate, 

 1-3 inches long: pubescence of the branchlets and calyx viscid or glandular: 

 tube of the corolla about twice the length of the calyx; its obovate lobes 

 entire or barely retuse : ovules 1 or 2 in each cell. Dry prairies, eastern Ore- 

 gon and Washington to the Rocky Mountains. 



P. adsnrgens Torr. in Herb. Gray 1. c. 256. Glabrous except the 

 glandular -pubescent slender pedicels and calyx: stems slender, trailing or 

 ascending, 6-20 inches long: leaves ovate to broadly lanceolate, acute, 5-12 

 lines long by half as broad, all but the lowest shorter than the internodes: 

 tube of the corolla nearly twice as long as the calyx; its obovate entire or 

 retuse lobes 5-6 lines long : ovules solitary in the cells. In dry open forests, 

 southwestern Oregon. 



+- +- Calyx-tube cylindraceous, the thin membranous portion be- 

 tween the ribs not projecting into salient angles: style very short, most- 

 ly shorter than the ovary. 



P. speciosa Pursh PI. 149. Stems 1-3 feet high; the branches ascend- 

 ing from a shrubby base, somewhat viscid -puberulent or glandular above: 

 leaves lanceolate or linear, 1-3 inches long, very acute above, sessile with a 

 broad base: flowers corymbose : corolla rose color or pink to white; its tube 

 but little longer than the calyx; its obcordate lobes 5-6 lines long: ovules 

 -solitary in the cells. Dry ridges and rocky banks, California to Brit Colum- 

 bia and the Rocky Mountains. 



Var. Nabini Gray 1, c. Lobes of the corolla entire or barely retuse: 

 obovate with a narrowed cuneate base. Spokane river Washington. 



2 CANTUA Juss. Gen. 136. 



Very leafy commonly tufted perennials or undershrubs with the 

 leaves all alternate, rarely opposite, and showy flowers either sol- 

 itary and sessile or few in a cluster at the ends of short branches 

 or branchlets. Calyx tubular to campanulate, the lobes short- 

 subulate, pungent. Corolla salverform ; the tube more or less 

 exceeding the calyx ; the throat somewhat funnel form. Filaments 

 short, inserted in or below the throat: anthers short, included. 

 Ovules numerous in each cell. Seeds with a close coat, develop- 

 ing neither mucilage nor spiral threads when wetted. 



C. puiigens Torr. Ann. Lye N. Y. ii, 26. Gilia pungent Benth. 

 Puberulent, glabrate, or somewhat viscid: stems woody, usually much 

 branched or tufted, 6-8 inches high: leaves sessile, palmately divided into 

 3-7 rigid and pungent subulate segments, 4-8 lines long, often with smaller 

 ones fascicled in their axils : calyx cylindraceous ; its subulate lobes y z 



