POLEMONIUM FAMILY. 2C1 



2. 2/ Wild in most/// dry or rocky ground, also common in gardens, ir/u re the 

 species are much crossed and vuriid. 



* Stems erect : flowers in (Mong or pyramidal panicle, with short peduncles and 



pt'dii -i In : lo!>i s of corolla entire, pink-purple, and with white varieties. 

 U V/i/ from Pennsylvania S. and \V. : fl. summer. 



P. paniculata. Smooth, or some varieties roughish or soft hairy, 2 - 4 

 hin'h, stout ; leaves oblong or ovate-lanceolate and mostly with tapering base; 

 panicle broad ; calyx-teeth sharp-pointed. 



P. maculata. Smooth; stem slender, l-2high, purple-spotted lower 

 leaves lanceolate, upper lance-ovate from a rounded or somewhat heart-shaped 

 biise ; panicle long and narrow, leafy below ; calyx-teeth hardly pointed. 



* * Stems ascending or erect, but often it-it li a prostrate base, l-3 high: whole 



plant smooth, not clammy nor glandular : flowers corymbed: lobes of corolla 

 round and entire. \Vild chiefly H . and S., seldom cult. : fl. summer. 

 P. Carolina. Leaves varying from lanceolate to ovate, or the upper heart- 

 shaped ; Howers crowded, short-pednncled, pink ; calyx-teeth acute. 



P. glaberrima. Slender; leaves often linear-lanceolate, 3' -4' long; 

 flowers fewer and loose, pink or whitish ; calyx-teeth sharp-pointed. 



* # # Flowering stems ascending, or in the flrst erect, low, terminated hi/ a loose 



corymb, which is clammy-pubescent more or less, as well as the thinnis/i 

 leaves : flowers mostly pedicelled : calyx-teeth very slender : fl. late spring. 



P. pi!6sa. From N. Jersey to Wisconsin & S. : mostly hairy ; erect 

 steins 1 or so high ; leaves lanceolate or linear and tapering to a point (l'-2' 

 long) ; flowers loose, with spreading awn-pointed calyx-teeth ; lobes of pink, 

 rose, or rarely white corolla obovate and entire. 



P. amdeha. Barrens from Virg. to 111. & S. : pubescent, spreading 

 from the base, 6' -1 high, leaves lanceolate, or broadly oblong or ovate on 

 sterile shoots, short ; flowers in a crowded leafy-bracted corymb, with straight 

 hardly awn-pointed calyx-teeth ; corolla purple, pink, or nearly white. 



P. reptans. Moist woods from Penn. and Kentucky .S. : spreading by- 

 long runners, which bear ronnd-obovate often smoothish leaves, those of the low 

 flowering stems oblong or ovate (about ' long) ; flowers few but crowded ; lobes 

 of the deep pink-purple corolla round-obovate, large (!' broad). 



P. divaricata. Moist woods from N. New York W. & S. : soft-pubescent; 

 stems loosely spreading ; leaves ovate-oblong or broad-lanceolate (l'-2' long) ,- 

 flowers loosely corymbed and peduncled ; corolla large, pale lilac, bluish, or 

 lead-colored, the lobes wedge-obovate or commonly inversely heart-shaped and 

 as long as the tube. 



* * * * Stems creeping and tufted, rising little above the ground, almost woody, 



persistent, as are the rigid and crowded glandular-pub scent leaves : flowers 



few in the depressed clusters, in early spring. 



P. SUbulata, GROUND or Moss PINK. Wild on rocky hills W. & S. of 

 New England, and common in gardens, forming broad mats ; leaves awl-shaped 

 or lanceolate, at most long ; corolla pink-purple, rose with a darker eye, or 

 varying to white, the wedge-obovate lobes generally notched at the end. 



2. GILIA. (Named for one Gil, a Spanish botanist.) Species abound 



from Texas and Kansas to California. Several are choice annuals of the 



gardens : fl. summer. 



G. COronopifolia, or IPOMOPSIS, called CYPRESS GILIA from tho 

 foliage resembling that of Cypress- Vine : wild S. and cull.; has erect wand- 

 like stem 2 -3 hitch, thickly clothed with alternate crowded leaves pinnately 

 divided into thread-like leaflets, and very long and narrow strict leafy pauich; 

 of showy flowers ; the corolla tubular-funnel form, light scarlet with whitish 

 specks on the lobes inside, l' long. (Lessons, p. 90, tig. 249.) 



G. androsacea, or LEFTOSIPHON ANDROSACEL-S, of California: low and 

 slender, with opposite leaves palmatcly cleft into 5-7 narrow linear divisions, 

 a head-like cluster of flowers with very long and slender but small salver-shaped 

 corolla, lilac or whitish with a dark eye. 



