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POLEMONIACE^J. 



Hills and valleys from Marin Co. and the Vaca Mountains south- 

 ward through the Coast Ranges to Southern California. 



G. latiflora Gray is a similar species of Southern California; 

 glabrous except the loosely paniculate inflorescence; radical leaves 

 pinnatifid. the cauline few. narrow and entire; pedicels shorter than 

 the flowers or 1 in. or more long; corolla dilated-funnelform, abruptly 

 contracted below into a narrow tube which slightly exceeds the calyx; 

 calyx less than 2 lines long, with subulate or acute teeth. — Specimens 

 seemingly referable to this come from Coyote Creek, Santa Clara Co. 



4. G. tricolor Benth. Bird's Eyes. Erect, usually branching- 

 somewhat above the base, commonly 4 to 7 in. or sometimes 1 ft. 

 high; herbage more or less pubescent with gland-tipped hairs; leaves 

 laciniately bipinnatifid into narrowly linear divisions; calyx 3 line- 

 long, its lobes acuminate; corolla 6 to 7 lines long, the roundish lobes 

 azure or whitish, the throat with 2 oblong purple areas beneath each 

 lobe bounded below by yellow; stamens inserted at the sinuses. 



Common on low hills: Coast Ranges (Los Gatos, northward to 

 Humboldt Co.. but especially common toward the interior); Sierra 

 Foothills. Apr. 



5. G. achilleaefolia Benth. Very similar to the next in habit but 

 very frequently simple, generally more pubescent, and the capitate 

 flower-clusters larger and less compact; calyx more or less woolly, the 

 teeth triangular, acute, with -short recurved tips or connivent over 

 the young fruit; corolla funnelform with ample throat, deep or pale 

 blue, its lobes obovate or oblong. 



Sandv soils: Coast Ranges; Sierra Foothills; Southern California. 

 May. 



6. G. capitata Dougl. Erect, simple or m»..e commonly branch- 

 ing above, 2 or 3 ft. high, pubescent or almost glabrous; leaves 

 several times palmately dissected into linear or filiform lobes, or the 

 uppermost merely pinnately divided; ultimate segments often curved 

 or falcate; peduncles long, slender and naked, terminating in a densely 

 capitate or globose cluster; calyx nearly or quite glabrous, its teeth 

 lanceolate, in anthesis approximating the tube in length; corolla 

 light blue, its lobes nearly linear; stamens inserted in the very 

 sinuses of the corolla. 



Coast Range hills and ridges from Marin and Napa Cos. northward; 

 Sierra Nevada. May. 



7. G. virgata Steud. var. floribunda Gray. Stems simple or 

 branching at the base; leaves pinnately parted into 3 to 7 filiform 

 lobes, the middle (or terminal) lobe commonly much longer than the 

 others; flowers numerous in head-like clusters terminating the corym- 

 bose branches, the bracts and calyx very densely woolly; corolla 

 salverform, the tube 6 to 8 lines long and surpassing the acerose 

 calyx-lobes; filaments filiform and exserted. 



Sandy soils of the valleys: Lower San Joaquin and Santa Clara Co., 

 southward to Southern California. June-July. Gilia virgata has 

 the lower leaves entire, the upper rarely more than 3-parted, with the 

 clusters virgately disposed. — Monterey and southward. 



