. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 644 GILIA GILIA tlie corolla lobes oblong or obovate : capsules large. W. Calif. (showing only capitate inflores- cence).—An old garden plant. Pis. vary to white and tricolor. Natural size. DDD. Inflorescence scattered or loosely cymulose. 9. tricolor, Benth. Fig. 905. A very diffnse, twiggy g
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 644 GILIA GILIA tlie corolla lobes oblong or obovate : capsules large. W. Calif. (showing only capitate inflores- cence).—An old garden plant. Pis. vary to white and tricolor. Natural size. DDD. Inflorescence scattered or loosely cymulose. 9. tricolor, Benth. Fig. 905. A very diffnse, twiggy grower, 2-2}^ ft. high, sparsely pubescent: Ivs. few on the full grown plant, small, with many short, very nar- row or needle-shaped divisions : fls. comparatively large {'Hin. long or nearly so), nearly or quite bell- shaped, the corolla 2-3 times the length of the calyx ; color of the roundish lobes violet and passing to whitish at the base, of the throat brown-purple and of the tube yellow. 20 of the commonest of garden annuals. There is a white form {6. nivdlis, Hort.) and a rose-colored form {G. rdsea, Hort.). Thrives with the least care, and is al- ways a profuse bloomer. CCC. Plant biennial: seeds few or many in each locule: fls. large axid long-tubular, red {running into white forms), the corolla very much surpassing the subulate calyx lobes, (tpomopsis.) 10. coronopifdiia, Pers. {Ipom6psis ilegans, Poir. I. aurantlaca and /. sanguinea, Hort.). Standing Cypress. Stem strict and unbranched, sometimes 6 ft. high, very leafy : Ivs. pinnate, the divisions needle-like and about 1 in. long: fls. many, IK in. long, long-trum- pet-shape, borne along the sides of the summit of the stem, the calyx inconspicuous amongst the short bract- lvs.,the corolla scarlet or pink-red and dotted and yel- lowish within, varying to orange, its lobes obtuse or nearly so and flaring. In dry soil, S. Car., south and west. 20:1691. —Common old garden plan
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