Descriptive Flora 



169 



up to where the flower stalks branch, narrowly lanceolate, rarely 

 linear, sessile, 1 to 2y 2 " long, and thick. April and May. This 

 plant is comparatively rare growing only among the rocks of 

 rich shaded banks of creeks in the Edward's Plateau. 



Gilia rubra (L.) Heller. Standing Cypress. Trailing Fire. 

 (Gilia coronopifolia Pers.) 



Bright red flowers blossoming at right angles to the tall, 

 slender, dark, feathery-foliaged stems. Leaves simple, alternate, 

 finely divided into 11 to 17 segments, giving the stem a feathery 

 appearance. Corolla scarlet, tubular, 5-lobed, l 1 /^ to iy 2 " long, 

 yellow spotted with red within. Stamens 5, exceeding the corolla. 

 Small brown anthers tip the slender red filaments. Stigma 3- 

 lobed, exceeding the stamens in length. May and June. Dry, 

 rocky hillsides of the Edward's Plateau Region. Frequently 

 cultivated in gardens. 



Gilia rigidula Benth. Blue Gilia. Golden Eye. 



Low, much branched perennial plants bearing blue flowers 

 with conspicuous yellow centers, tHe flowers being 1 inch across. 

 Leaves opposite, about 1 inch long, firm, divided into 3 to 7 linear 

 segments. Petals 5. Sepals 5, sticky (due to presence of minute 

 glandular hairs), united by their membraneous margins. Stamens 

 5, united at their bases to the corolla. Capsule small, ovoid, 

 buried in the calyx. Root tough and fibrous. March to June. 

 On dry, rocky hills and hillsides. Named for Gil, a Spanish 

 botanist. 



Gilia incisa Benth. False Flax. 



Slender stemmed plant with many ascending slender 

 branches, incisely toothed leaves and small blue 5-lobed flowers 

 (*/4 to y% across) that blossom singly at the tips of thread-like 

 pedicels, 1 to 3" long. Lower leaves simple, alternate, 1 to 2" 

 long, ovate to obovate, incised-toothed. Uppermost leaves entire, 

 sessile and gradually reduced to bracts. Calyx 5-lobed, the lobes 

 membraneous-margined and united below the middle. Corolla 



