Crossword-Solution: GILIA 5 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

This is the gilia the children call "evening snow," and it is no use trying to improve on children's names for wild flowers.

The greater length, and more papillose condition of the stigma in the short-styled than in the long-styled flowers, looks as if the plant was heterostyled; for we know that with some species--for instance, Leucosmia and certain Rubiaceae--the stigma is longer and more papillose in the short-styled form, though the reverse of this holds good in Gilia, a member of the same family with Phlox.

Among them, the common blue flowering flax made its first appearance; and a tall and handsome species of _gilia_, with slender scarlet flowers, which appeared yesterday for the first time, was very frequent to-day.

Some familiar examples of hardy annuals are sweet alyssum, ageratum, calendula, calliopsis, candytuft, Centaurea Cyanus, clarkia, larkspur, gilia, California poppy, morning-glory, marigold, mignonette, nemophila, pansy, phlox, pinks, poppies, portulaca, zinnia, sweet pea, scabiosa.

Flowering in the middle of August, but past flowering at the end of September the _Gilia montana_ is found, with its numerous white and pink leaves.