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GÍLIA achiliesefolia.
Milfoil-ìeaved Gilia.
Linnean Class and Order. P E N T A N D R I A M O N O G Y N IA .
Natural Order. P O L E M O N I A C E i E . D. Don in edmb.phil. jo u rn . 1 8 2 2 ,
p. 5 6 .
G IL IA . S u p r à fo l. 2 1 8 .
G achillecefolia, fo liis p ln n a to - p a r t it is : s e gm e n tis lln e a r l - a n g u s t ls s lm l s p k n i s ,
f lo r ib u s a g g r e g a t is p e d u n c u la t is , coroUas tu b o c a ly c e lo n g io r e : lo b is o b tu s is ,
a n th e r is c o rd a to -o b lo iig is m u c r o n u l a t i s . . ,
G ilia a c h ille s e fo lia . Bentham in bot. reg. fo l . 1 6 2 2 , ad calcem. Lindl. ibid.
t. 1 6 8 2 .
Root fibrous, annual. Stem from 3 to 6 inches high
round, and like the rest of the plant furnished with short
glandular hairs. Leaves alternate, bright green, pinnately
parted, the segments narrow, linear, pointed, compressed
Peduncles varying in length, filiform bearing from 3 to 5
flowers, placed on very short, copiously glandular pedicels.
Calyx tubular, copiously glandular, with 5 ovate-lanceolate,
acuminate, erect teeth, the sinuses scariose and purple.
Corolla about twice the length of the calyx, funnel-shaped,
of a nearly uniform deep blue colour, with broad, rounded,
blunt, entire lobes, the throat widened, campanulate. bta-
mms 5, blue, inserted just below the sinuses, the free portion
of the filaments awl-shaped. Anthers oblong-cordate, mucronulate.
Ovarium bluntly 3-sided, 3-celled, the ovules
many in each cell, angular. % fe filiform, slender Stigm^
3, semi-cylindrical, blunt, recurved, copiously papillose along
their inner surface. , . tv i
Another showy Gilia gathered by Mr Douglas in^California,
and introduced from seeds sent by hnn to the Horticiiltiiral
Society in 1833. It is akm to G. capitata, but the
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