. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 62 POLEMONIACEAE. Vol. 7. Gilia acerosa (A. Gray) Britton. Needle-leaved Gilia. Fig. 3478. G. rigidula var. acerosa A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 8 : -'So. 1870. Gilia acerosa Britton, Man. 761. 1901. Perennial, from a woody base, 4'-7' high, glandular-pubes- cent, bushy-branched, the slender branches erect-ascending. Leaves 1' long or less, pinnately parted i
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 62 POLEMONIACEAE. Vol. 7. Gilia acerosa (A. Gray) Britton. Needle-leaved Gilia. Fig. 3478. G. rigidula var. acerosa A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 8 : -'So. 1870. Gilia acerosa Britton, Man. 761. 1901. Perennial, from a woody base, 4'-7' high, glandular-pubes- cent, bushy-branched, the slender branches erect-ascending. Leaves 1' long or less, pinnately parted into 3-7 acicular en- tire segments; flowers scattered, on slender pedicels 1' long or less; corolla rotate, about 10" wide, its lobes rounded at the apex, abruptly contracted at the base; filaments filiform; anthers oblong; capsule about as long as the calyx-tube. Rocky and gravelly soil, Kansas to Texas, Mexico and New Mexico. April-Aug. 4. LEPTODACTYLON H. & A. Bot. Beech. Voy. 369. 1841. Low perennial herbs, somewhat woody, with alternate deeply pinnatifid or palmatifid leaves, their segments subulate and spinescent, the rather large flowers terminal, clustered or solitary. Calyx 4-5-lobed, the lobes spinescent, the sinuses not scarious but membranous. Corolla funnel form, 4-5-lobed, the lobes somewhat spreading. Stamens short. Capsule at length distending the calyx-tube, many-seeded. [Greek, referring to the deeply divided leaves.] Three or four species, natives of western North. America. fornicum H. & A. Type species : Lcplodactylon cali- 1. Leptodactylon caespitdsum Nutt. Tufted Sharp-leaved Gilia. Fig. 3479. L. caespitosum Nutt. Journ. Acad. Phila. II. i: 157. 1847. Gilia pungens caespitosa A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 8 : 268. 1870. Gilia caespitosa A. Nelson, 1898. Not A. Gray. Bull. Torr. Club 25: 546 Much branched and tufted from a thick buried woody base, 3'-s' high. Leaves densely fascicled and imbricated, 3-5-parted, 4" long or less, the seg- ments s
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