1100 POLEMONIACEAE 
1 POLEMONIUM L. Plants perennial with well-developed rootstocks, 
or in a few species annual. Leaves alternate: blades pinnately divided. In- 
florescence ied eymose, the cymes eorymbose or panieulate. Caly tul 
lar: lobes broad. Corolla violet, yellow, or white, rotate to campanulate, with 
spreading lobes. Filaments equally adnate M the eorolla-tube, two or more 
declined. Capsule ovoid to cllipsoid.—A bout 25 species, mostly North Ameri- 
can, but at least 7, including the type of os genus, Eurasian. 
tans L. Tufted ee the ascending or erect stems up to 50 
Aa ar e em. tall: lea up.to 20 em. long and 7 em. wide; segments 
e, but ony elliptic: 
cory an i a Cof bi flowers pcd 
m. ALT ar 
Ais e 3-5 m ong; 
long during anthesis, doubling i as 
the capsule ripen orolla pale E ex- 
ceptionally white, cu ande the tube 5-7 
mm. long; es obovate, lo as the 
tube: stamens normally included: style ex- 
BLUE L V 
VALERIAN. SWEAT T.) S d 
thiekets, often in circumneutral dn various 
provinees, though on the astal E d 
ns. n. an and 3 
Late spr. licate plant, acca onal 
cultivated, Mud blooming for but a shor 
period. A related species, - Van-Bruntiae 
Britton, grows in S W. Va., and may enter our range in the Blue Ridge; it is 
taller and has a narrow B of larger flowers with the stamens exser ted. 
2. GILIA R. & P. Perennial, biennial, or annual plants. Leaves usually 
alternate, with numerous narrow segments, or in some species incised or entire. 
Calyx tubular to campanulate; lobes narrow, acute. Corolla red, yellow, blue, 
or white, exceptionally moi Filaments unequally adnate to the corolla-tube 
or equally adnate but unequally exserted. Capsule ellipsoid to ovoid.—About 
100 species, all American and mostly in western United States. 
1. G. rubra (L.) Heller. Plant biennial, forming a large rosette the first year 
and producing a stout stem up to 100 (exceptionally 175) em. tall the second 
year: leaves numerous, pinnately-parted in 
linear-filiform divisions: panicle long, slen 
di e wers eee pedieelled: calyx- ny 3—4 
teeth 4-6 
ie brilliant scarlet- red w 
. and N. Q. = ea 
"M in various provinces as far N as 
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