1102 POLEMONIACEAE 
DRUMMONDIAN 
III. 
Plant a branching annual with the upper leaves arcane. 8. P. Drummondii, 
Prostrate stems well-developed, rooting at ee lower leaves 
9. P. stolonifera. 
spatulate, many of them Aveta pay 
ped: lower leaves never typically 
t. 
B Sho ots mostly Pe from the tip of a decum- 
bent nodes few: leaves elliptie to ovate: calyx 
avera zn Hs. 10 mm. lon ng. 10. P. ovata. 
Flowering shoots mostly arising from the UEM. 
nodes numerous: calyx averaging less than 10 
ng. 
Gace in a corymb or broad corymbose panicle. 
u leayes lanceolate to ovate: calyx 6-11 mm. 
11. P. carolina. 
Upper leaves linear to lanceolate: calyx 5-8 mm. 
long. 
Cymes in à narrow-conica 
19. P. glaberrima. 
1 or cylindrical panicle. 13. P. maculata. 
V. PANICULATA 
Hairs on the few opposite leaves, when present, coarse, and 
those on the inflorescence mos stly gland- -tipped: coro olla- tube 
me 1 included. 14. P. amplifolia, 
Hairs on the numerous SUD. opposite leaves, when present, fine 
those on the a. pointed or died gland- eed 
ted. 15. P. paniculata. 
corolla-tube pubescent: 1 or 2 stamens exs 
P. nivalis Lodd. Low evergreen shrub, with erect pubescent oe pes 
giandular m PS 10-20 em. tall: ‘leaf-blades sessile, up 
long an 4 mm. wide; blades linear-subu- 
late to pcm "elliptie: calyx-tube abou 
mm. and lobes 4 mm. long: corolla light- 
purple to white, the eye often dark-striate: 
1-19 mm. 
lon bes cuneate to 
obovate, 8-15 . long, terminally entire or 
erose, or with a sinus to 0.5 (rarely 1 or 
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2, P. subulata L. Low matted evergreen shrub with Er: erect pubescent, 
and in our range usually glandular, EE shoots 5—10 em. tall: leaves much 
s in the preceding, but rarely excee eding 15 mm. in d . in width: 
mm. long; 
a sinus ; 
sandy slopes, € often in cireumneutr al soil over calcareous or esi 
es, in p tal Plain only northward, N. C. and E Tenn. t 
Mich., n Ont and N. cci and occasionally fall—Presumably a descen- 
dant from P. ‘nivalis, exhibitin ng its greater specialization in the more densel 
matted stems, more cons n S, re 
stamens and style—P. Brittonii Small, differing from typieal P. subulata in 
the pale-lilac or white eorolla with deeper sinuses in the lobes, was ineluded in 
SE. U.S., but is not now regarded as specifically distinet, nor as growing 
within our area. 
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