ii È 
1304 
POLEMONIUM* húmile. 
Humble Greek Valerian: 
—— SAS 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. PoLEMONIACEE. 
POLEMONIUM. — Supra, vol. 6. fol. 460. 
P. humile ; foliis pinnatis, petalis obtusis, staminibus sagittatis. Willd. MSS, 
ex Römer et Schultes; 4. 792. 
Herba prostrata, foliis pinnatis subpubescentibus, foliolis 17-25, ovato- 
subrotundis, subalternis, Caules leviter pubescentes; Flores erecti v. leviter 
nutantes. Pedicelli subpubescentes. Calyx campanulatus, subpubescens, 
quinquefidus, tubo corolle subequalis. Corolla glabra, lobis rotundatis, 
patentibus. Stamina è squamis pubescentibus exorta. ‘Anthere ovate, 
basi obtusé sagittate. 
Raised with the preceding, and from the same collec- 
tion of seeds ; it flowers at the same time, and appears to 
be perennial; but of this latter point we cannot judge with 
accuracy until another season. 
The only place in which we find it described is in the 
Supplement to the fourth volume of Rómer and Schultes 
Species Plantarum, where it is inserted with a definition 
which, as far as it is intelligible (for what are stamina 
sagittata?), applies as well to P. ceeruleum, or mexicanum, 
or reptans, but with a good description, made from a spe- 
cimen of Pallas, collected in Eastern Siberia. Hence the 
species appears, like many other Siberian plants, to be 
common to both sides of the Northern Pacific; for the 
space between the part of Eastern America, where it must 
have been found by Dr. Richardson's party, is filled up by 
the discovery of it on the western side of America by 
Mr. Douglas, in whose herbarium it is called P. gracile. 
* See fol. 1303. 
