GILIA FAMILY 



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Bracts densely white-tomentose ; leaves bipinnatifid 



9. G. Inter texta. 



Sinuses of the calyx white-hairy; leaves once pinnatifid 



10. leucoeephala. 



Primary flower-cluster on a very short stem or almost none, the 

 branches radiating from beneath it and prostrate; calyx-segments 



trifid 11. G. ]>rostrata. 



Capsule regularly dehiscent by valves and releasing the seeds which arc- 

 free from each other; flowers blue (except no. 14). 

 Leaves (or some of them) pinnately parted with the divisions incised or 

 parted. 



Stamens exserted ; capsule 1-celled. 

 Leaves with innocuous teeth; flowers creamy white, 4-merous .... 



12. 6. cotutefolia. 



Leaves with pungent teeth, the terminal leaflet spatulate-dilated ; 



capsule i-seeded 13. G. pubescens. 



Stamens not exserted. 

 Seeds 8 to 12 in each cell; herbage strongly mephitic-scented .... 



14. Q. xquarroxa. 

 Seeds 4 in each cell; herbage honey-scented . . .15. <i. mrllita. 

 Leaves merely pinnatifid or incised or many of them entire. 

 Capsule several-seeded. 

 Erect slender plants; bractlets laciniately cleft, especially toward 



the base 16. G. heterodoxa. 



Low very rigid and spiny plants; bractlets dilated and with strong 



marginal spines 17. (J. atractyloides. 



Cells of capsule 1-seeded ; corolla 6 or 7 lines long; bractlets, especially 

 the inner ones, lanceolate-cleft at apex . . .18. 0. viscidula. 



1. G. gracilis Hook. Three to 8 in. high, either simple or 

 branched above; herbage pilose-pubescent, the hairs often gland- 

 tipped; leaves opposite, oblong to lanceolate, entire; inflorescence 

 cymose and terminal; calyx cylindrical, 3 or 4 lines long, much dis- 

 tended in fruit by the globose capsule, the short teeth accrescent; 

 tube of corolla yellow, surpassing the calyx, the limb 1 to 1.} lines 

 broad, its lobes roundish, emarginate; stamens unequally inserted; 

 seeds 1 in each cell, with a rather broad thin margin. — (Collomia 

 gracilis Dougl. Microsteris Californica Greene.) 



Inconspicuous but rather common on low hills of the Coast Ranges 

 and in the Sierra Foothills. Mar. -Apr. 



. 2. G. gilioides (Benth.) Greene. Loosely branching, erect or 

 diffuse, 8 to 20 in. high; radical and lower leaves pinnately parted 

 into narrowly oblong or lanceolate divisions, or all so divided, or tin- 

 upper palmately divided into 3 to 5 obovate or lanceolate divisions; 

 corolla 4 to G lines long, salverforni. blue-purple; stamens unequally 

 inserted; capsule globose; seeds 1 or 2 in each cell. — (Collomia 

 gilioides Benth.) 



Mostly at higher altitudes in the mountains: Coast Ranges; Sierra 

 Nevada; Southern California. June. Leaves exceedingly variable. 



8. G. multicaulis Benth. Branching from the base, 9 to 14 in. 

 high, glabrous; leaves pinnately parted into 5 to 9 linear and entire 

 or toothed lobes; flowers subsessile or the clusters loose, in either case 

 few-flowered, the pedicels 1 to 4 lines (rarely 1 in.) long; calyx-teeth 

 erect or recurved in fruit; corolla deep or pale blue, its proper tube 

 shorter than the calyx, the funnelform throat longer than the obovate 

 lobes; stamens unequally inserted; capsule ovoid. 



