GILIA (named in honour of P. S. Gilio, a Spanish botanist of the eighteenth century). Including Fenzlia, Ipomopsis, Leptodactylon, and Leptosiphon. ORD. Polemoniaceae. A genus containing about sixty-five species of, for the most part, hardy annual herbs, natives of North-west, extra-tropical, and sub-tropical South America. Corolla infundibuliform and hypocrateriform, sometimes almost campanulate or rotate. Leaves variable. Gilias form very attractive subjects for beds or edgings, where they succeed without causing blanks by part of the plants dying away. They are readily raised from seed, sown in the open ground, in March or April. A rather light soil should be chosen, and positions selected according to the heights of different species. GILIA achilleaefolia (Milfoil-leaved).* fl. purplish-blue; corymbs capitate, many-flowered, on very long peduncles. August. l. twice or thrice pinnate; leaflets linear-subulate. h. 1ft. California, 1833. (B. M. 5939.) There is an elegant variety with white flowers, and another with red ones. GILIA androsacea (Androsace-like).* fl., corolla lilac, pink, or nearly white, with yellow or dark throat. August. l. opposite, narrow, palmatisect. h. 9in. to 12in. California. SYN. Leptosiphon androsaceus (under which name it is figured in B. M. 3491, B. R. 1710). There is a variety, rosacea, having a rose-red corolla, varying, however, into other hues. San Francisco. (B. M. 5863, under name of Leptosiphon parviflorus rosaceus.) GILIA Brandegei (Brandegee's).* fl. several, in a short, racemose, leafy thyrse; corolla golden-yellow, trumpet-shaped; lobes oval and short. l. all pinnate, elongated-linear in circumscription; leaflets small, numerous. Stem simple. h. 9in. to 12in. Colorado, 1878. Perennial. (B. M. 6378.) GILIA capitata (headed).* fl. blue, sessile, disposed in dense heads on long peduncles. Summer. l. bipinnatifid; segments linear, cut. h. 1ft. to 2ft. North-west America, 1826. (B. M. 2698.) GILIA densiflora (dense-flowered).* fl., corolla tube lilac or nearly white, little (if at all) exserted beyond the calyx. June. l., divisions filiform, somewhat rigid. California. SYN. Leptosiphon densiflorus (under which name it is figured in B. M. 3578; B. R. 1725). GILIA dianthoides (Pink-like). fl. varying greatly in size and colour; corolla lilac or purplish, usually with darker or yellowish throat. July. l. narrow-linear. h. 2in. to 5in. California, 1855. A showy little plant. (B. M. 4876.) GILIA inconspicua (inconspicuous). fl. somewhat crowded and sub-sessile, or at length loosely panicled; corolla violet or purplish, narrowly funnel-shaped, with proper tube shorter or slightly longer than the calyx. August. l. mostly pinnatifid or pinnately parted, or the lowest bipinnatifid, with short mucronate cuspidate lobes. h. 9in. to 12in. North America. (B. M. 2883.) GILIA laciniata (cut-leaved). fl. purplish; peduncles axillary, solitary, one to three-flowered. July. l. pinnatifid; segments narrow-oblong, sinuated. h. 6in. to 12in. Chili, 1831. GILIA liniflora (Flax-flowered).* fl. white, solitary, on long peduncles. Summer. l., lower ones opposite, all sessile and palmately cut. h. 1ft. California, 1833. (B. M. 5895.) GILIA micrantha (small-flowered).* fl. rosy-coloured, produced in great abundance, with a slender tube about 1 1/2in. long. Summer. l. five to seven-parted; segments linear, acute. h. 9in. Plant more or less clothed with longish weak hairs. California, 1870. SYN. Leptosiphon roseus. There is a form, aurea, with golden-yellow flowers. GILIA multicaulis (many-stemmed). fl. blue; corymbs three to ten-flowered, on very long peduncles, scarcely panicled. Summer. l. somewhat bipinnate, smoothish; segments linear. h. 1ft. California, 1833. (B. M. 3440, and B. R. 1682, under name of GILIA achilleaefolia.) GILIA tricolor (three-coloured).* fl., corolla with an orange-yellow tube and centre, and the light purple or white of the margin separated by a circle of deep purple; corvmbs three to six-flowered; panicles rather dense. June. l. Lipinnate; segments linear-subulate. h. 1ft. California, 1833. (B. M. 3463; B. R. 1704.) There are several pretty varieties of this species, including white and violet-coloured ones.