Gilia cana subsp. triceps (Brand) A.D.Grant & V.E.Grant

Gilia cana (Jones)
Gilia latifiora var. cana Joses, Cont, West, Bot, 8: 35,
1898.
No. 8309, collected May 22, between Laws, Inyo county,
and the base of the White mountains. Not uncommon in sand
and gravel, the plants scattered. A specimen has been sent to*
Mr. Jones for comparison, but he does not have time at present
to look into the matter: The leaves are “permanently white
woolly,” but not “densely” so. ’The character “flowers longer
and paler” than in C ÉatâÈ$a is very indefinite, for we have
nothing in literature whicfi ^indicates the size of the flowers in
the type of that species. It was practically a nomen nudum
until the Synoptical Florà was issued, and the description there
’does not mend matters much, for it is made to include several
forms, distitict enough in the field, and never growing near each
other so far as I have obserVed. Jones’ plant is evidently dis-
tinct^ even if it is not the same as ours, which may be charac-
terized as follows:
Annual, varying in height from 1 to 2 dm., branched from
the base, the spread often equaling the height^ somewhat woolly
below, and sometimes more or less glandular: leaves thin, mostly
basal, oblong, 4 cm. long or less, maximum width about 1 cm.,
pinnatifid or variously sharply eut and lobed, the divisions acute
and spinescent, woolly but the greén color not obscured, or some
plants nearly smooth; upper leaves When present small and bract
Itke, or some on the middle part of the stem with one or two
short lobes: pedicels slender, almost filiform, 2 cm. long or less,
glandular above: calyx narrowly campanulate, 3 mm. long, 2mm.
Wide, glandular, green except 'the narrow scarious intercostal
spaces, the short, lanceolate lobes awn pointed: corollas about
Ï5mm. long, 10 or 12 mm. wide when fully expanded, the slen-
der tube proper 1 mm. across, 6 to 8 mm. long, purple, the fun-
nelform throat yellow at base, dark violet-purple above, merging i
into the pale violet-purple of the lobes, which are broadly ob-
ovate, 5 mm. long and about as wide, the rounded apex tipped
with a short broad point: stamens a îittle exserted from the
throat, the anthers purplish or bluish: styles commonly almost
as long as the corollas, the slender liftear stigmas 2 or 3 mm.
long, downeurved.
This is distinct from any of the vaïrous forms of G. latiftora
known to me, and if it should prove different from the type of
G. cana, a name will be supplied later.
PLANTS OF CALIFORNIA
Inyo County
8309 GIUA CAN A (Jones) Heller
Near Laws
A. A. Heller, Collector
M»y 1906
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