GILIA FAMILY 
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1. C. heterophylla Hook. Erect or diffusely branching, 4.8 to 24 cm. 
long; upper leaves entire or toothed, lower pinnately parted irito acute 
divisions; flowers in terminal clusters subtended by entire or deeply 
toothed bracts; corolla red-purple.—Shady places in the mountains. 
2. GILIA R. & P. 
Herbs with mostly alternate entire or variously lobed or dissected 
leaves. Flowers either scattered, or in loose or head-like clusters. Calyx 
scarious below the sinuses, its teeth equal, the tube in some species rup¬ 
tured in age by the growing pod. Corolla funnnelform to salverform. 
Seeds 1 to several in each cell of the pod. (Felipe Luis Gil, Spanish 
botanist of the latter half of the 18th century.) 
Calyx segments equal, entire. 
Leaves opposite, entire.....1. G. gracilis. 
Leaves alternate. 
Leaves mostly 1 to 3 times pinnately dissected into narrow segments. 
Stamens included ; flowers few in mostly loose clusters. 
Flowers 1-colored. 
Tube of corolla shorter than calyx ; flowers blue or purple.... 
2. G. multicaulis. 
Tube of corolla longer than calyx; flowers scarlet. 
3. G. aggregata. 
Flowers 3-colored, blue, purple, and yellow.4. G. tricolor. 
Stamens more or less exserted ; flowers in terminal capitate clusters. 
Corolla-segments nearly linear.5. G. capitata. 
Corolla-segments obovate or oblong.6. G. achilleaefolia. 
Leaves or their simple divisions linear or filiform and rigid ; calyces and 
bracts densely woolly-matted. 
Leaves 1 to 3-parted.7. G. virgata. 
Leaves 3 to 7-parted.8. G. brauntonii. 
Calyx segments mostly unequal, entire or some toothed ; flowers blue. 
9. G. squarrosa. 
1. G. gracilis Hook. Simple or branched above, 7.2 to 19.2 cm. high, 
pilose-pubescent; leaves opposite, oblong to lanceolate, entire; flowers in 
a terminal cyme; calyx cylindrical, distended in fruit; tube of corolla 
yellow, surpassing the calyx, its lobes roundish.—Foothills. 
2. G. multicaulis Benth. Branching from the base, 2 to 3.3 dm. high, 
glabrous; leaves pinnately parted into linear lobes; flowers in few- 
flowered subsessile or loose clusters; corolla deep or pale blue, its lobes 
obovate.—Hills and valleys from Marin Co. and the Vaca Mts. s. to S. Cal. 
3. G. aggregata Spreng. Scarlet Gilia. Erect, 2.8 to 8.6 dm. high; 
leaves pinnately parted into linear divisions; flowers in small clusters in 
a virgate panicle; calyx glandular, with subulate lobes; corolla from 
scarlet to pink or white.—Rocky ravines in the mountains. 
4. G. tricolor Benth. Bird’s Eyes. Erect, 1 to 2.8 dm. high, usually 
branching above the base; leaves laciniately bipinnatifid; flowers few in 
mostly loose clusters; corolla 3-colored, blue, purple and yellow, 1.2 to 1.4 
cm. long.—Low hills. 
5. G. capitata Dough Erect, 5.7 to 8.6 dm. high ; leaves several times 
palmately dissected into linear or filiform lobes; flowers in a globose 
cluster terminating a long slender naked peduncle ; calyx nearly or quite 
glabrous, its teeth lanceolate; corolla pale blue, its lobes linear.—Hill 
country. 
6. G. achilleaefolia Benth. Similar to no. 5 but flower-clusters larger 
