. Synoptical flora of North America. Botany; Gamopetalae. 136 POLEMONIACE^. Collomia. # Cauline leaves simply pinnately parted into few (3 to 7) narrow-linear or often almost filiform divisions, very numerous, all alternate; inflorescence tliyrsiform or panicled: corolla sah'erform, with tube little if at all dilated upward. : C. Cavanillesiana, Don. Biennial {or perhaps perennial southward) with a somewhat woody base, more or less pubescent, virgately branched: flowers in small clusters in a narrow or raceme-like leafy thyrsus : pedicels very short or none : corolla white, ochroleu- cous, or
. Synoptical flora of North America. Botany; Gamopetalae. 136 POLEMONIACE^. Collomia. # Cauline leaves simply pinnately parted into few (3 to 7) narrow-linear or often almost filiform divisions, very numerous, all alternate; inflorescence tliyrsiform or panicled: corolla sah'erform, with tube little if at all dilated upward. : C. Cavanillesiana, Don. Biennial {or perhaps perennial southward) with a somewhat woody base, more or less pubescent, virgately branched: flowers in small clusters in a narrow or raceme-like leafy thyrsus : pedicels very short or none : corolla white, ochroleu- cous, or tinged with purple, only half inch long; the tube 2 or 3 times the length of the calyx ; the sinuses somewhat unequal; lobes oblong: filaments moderately unequally inserted high in the considerably funnelform-expanded throat: anthers roundish : ovules 5 to 7 in the cells. â Syst. iv. 246; Gray, 1. c. 260. Phlox pinnata, Cav. Ic. t. 528. Cantua gjomerijlora, Juss. Ann. Mus. Par. ii. 119. Gilia tjlomeriflora, Benth. 1. c. G. multiJiora,'S\itt. PI. Gamb. 1. c. â New Mexico and W. Texas to Arizona. (Mex.) C. 'I'hm'beri, Gray. Eesembles the preceding in foliage and growth, but only minutely pubescent: inflorescence more spicate : flowers much larger: corolla blue or lilac, showy, salverform; the tube an inch or rather more in length, very slightly and gradually dilated upwards, 3 or 4 times the length of the calyx and of its orbicular lobes: filaments in the throat: anthers short-oblong: ovules 8 or 9 in each cell. â Proc. Am. Acad. 1. c. 261. â New Mexico, near the Santa Rita coppermines, and in Arizona, Thurher. C. longiflora, Gray, 1. c. Annual, glabrous, loosely paniculate-branched: divisions of the leaves long and slender: flowers loosely somewhat corymbose on slender peduncles: corolla white, strictly salverform and Phlox-like, showy; the tube often an inch and a half long, with narrow orifice; lobes orbicular or ovate (sometimes abruptly pointed): filaments very unequally
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