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with opposite, entire leaves, and large, blue, purple, red, 
or white flowers in terminal cymes or cymose panicles. 
Calyx tubular or tubular-campanulate, 5-ribbed, 5-cleft. 
Corolla salver-form, the tube narrow, the limb ,5-lobed. 
Stamens unequally inserted on the corolla-tube. Ovary 
oblong or ovoid, 3-celled. Capsule ovoid, 3-valved. Seeds 
ovoid, wingless or narrowly winged. 
1. Phlox pilosa L. Downy Phlox. Soft, downy, or hairy, often 
glandular. Stem erect or ascending. Leaves linear or lanceolate, 
1/-4' long. Cymes corymbose. Flowers short-pedicelled. Calyx 
.glandular-viscid, teeth longer than the tube, bristle-pointed. Corolla 
pink, purple, or white, lobes obovate. Capsule shorter than the 
calyx. 
In dry soil. April-June. Oklahoma, Cleveland, Caddo counties. 
II. GILIA R. & P. 
Herbs with opposite or alternate, entire, pinnatifid, 
palmatifid, or dissected leaves. Flowers solitary, cymose, 
capitate, thyrsoid, or paniculate. Calyx campanulate or 
tubular, 5-toothed or 5-cleft. Corolla funnel-form, tu¬ 
bular, campanulate, rotate or salver-form, 5-lobed. Sta¬ 
mens equally or unequally inserted on the corolla. Ovary 
oblong or ovoid, 3-celled. Capsule ovoid or oblong, 3- 
celled. 
1. Gilia longiflora (Torr.) Don. White-flowered Gilia. An¬ 
nual, glabrous 12'-24' high. Leaves alternate, sessile, 12"-18" long, 
pinnately divided into linear-filiform segments, or the uppermost en¬ 
tire. Flowers white, paniculate, about 2' long. Corolla salver-form. 
Stamens unequally inserted. Capsule narrowly oblong. 
In dry soil. May-September. Payne County. 
FAMILY 74. HYDROPHYLLACE/E. Water-Leaf Family. 
Herbs, mostly hirsute, pubescent or scabrous, with al¬ 
ternate or basal, rarely opposite, leaves, and perfect, regu¬ 
ar 5-parted flowers, in scorpioid cymes, spikes or racemes, 
or, rarely, solitary. Calyx inferior, deeply cleft, or divided, 
the sinuses sometimes appendaged. Corolla gamopetalous, 
