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 102nd meridian . 62 POLEMOXL\CEAE. Vol. 7. Gilia acerosa (A. Gray) Britton. Needle-leavedGilia. Fig. 3478. G. rigidula var. acerosa A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 8: 280. 1870, Gilia acerosa Britton, Man. 761. 1901. Perennial, from a woody base, 4-/ high, glandular-pubes-cent, bushy-branched, the slender branches i long or less, pinnately parted into 3-/ acicular en-tire
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 102nd meridian . 62 POLEMOXL\CEAE. Vol. 7. Gilia acerosa (A. Gray) Britton. Needle-leavedGilia. Fig. 3478. G. rigidula var. acerosa A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 8: 280. 1870, Gilia acerosa Britton, Man. 761. 1901. Perennial, from a woody base, 4-/ high, glandular-pubes-cent, bushy-branched, the slender branches i long or less, pinnately parted into 3-/ acicular en-tire segments; flowers scattered, on slender pedicels i longor less; corolla rotate, about 10 wide, its lobes rounded atthe 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 NewMexico. April-Aug. 4. LEPTODACTYLON H. & A. Bot. Beech. Voy. 369. 1841. Low perennial herbs, somewhat woody, with alternate deeply pinnatifid or palmatifidleaves, their segments subulate and spinescent, the rather large flowers terminal, clustered orsolitary. Calyx 4-5-lobed, the lobes spinescent, the sinuses not scarious but funnelf
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