. Handbook of hardy trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants ... Based on the French work of Messrs. Decaisne and Naudin ...entitled 'Manuel de l'amateur des jardins,' and including the original woodcuts by Riocreux and Leblanc. Plants, Ornamental. PolemoniacecB—Gilia. 309 Spanish botanist. The following are the species usually known in gardens under this name, and in these the corolla-tube is very short, scarcely exceeding the calyx-lobes. 1. 0. capitata.—An erect annual from 2 to 3 feet high with deeply lobed and dissected sessile leaves and terminal dense heads of small blue flowers on long nak
. Handbook of hardy trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants ... Based on the French work of Messrs. Decaisne and Naudin ...entitled 'Manuel de l'amateur des jardins,' and including the original woodcuts by Riocreux and Leblanc. Plants, Ornamental. PolemoniacecB—Gilia. 309 Spanish botanist. The following are the species usually known in gardens under this name, and in these the corolla-tube is very short, scarcely exceeding the calyx-lobes. 1. 0. capitata.—An erect annual from 2 to 3 feet high with deeply lobed and dissected sessile leaves and terminal dense heads of small blue flowers on long naked peduncles. A native of California. 2. 0. tricolor.—A slender glabrous annual about a foot high. Leaves bipinnately divided into narrow linear segments. Flowers about 8 or 10 lines in diameter, 2 to 4 together at the ends of the branches, purple and lilac with a deeper shade in the centre. This is a very pretty plant, of which there are several varieties in gardens. Also from California. 3. G. diantholdes, syn. Fenzlia dianthoides. — A dwarf tufted branching annual about 6 inches high, with simple linear often opposite leaves and solitary terminal rosy lilac flowers having 5 dark purple spots around the centre. A native of California. The next sub-genus is Leptosiphon, so named from the long slender tube of the corolla. The species are all dwarf annuals, rarely exceeding a foot in height, and often not more than 3 or 4 inches. They are charming little subjects, with extremely slender stems and deeply palmately divided leaves with narrow linear segments, and terminal corymbose heads of brightly coloured flowers. L. Androsaceua (fig. 173) has rosy purple, lilac or white flowers ; L. densijldrus is a similar plant with rather larger pale purple or white flowers ; L. lutaus, small yellow or orange-coloured flowers, according to the variety; and L. roseus has delicate rose-coloured flowers. There are also many very elegant and beautiful hybrid varieties between the fore- g
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