1304 



POLEMONIUM* hiimile. 

 Humble Greek Valerian. 



PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. Old. PoLEMONIACE^. 



POLEMONIUM. — Supra, vol. 6. fol. 460. 



P. hwmile ; foliis pinnatis, petalis obtusis, staminibus sagittatis. Willd. MSS. 



ex Rijmer et Schulfes, 4. 792. 



Herba prostrata, foliis pinnatis subpubescentibus, foliolis 17-25, ovato- 

 subrotundis, subalternis. Caules leviter pubescentes. Flores erecti v. leviter 

 nutantes. Peclicelli suhpubescentes. Calyx campanulatus, subpubescens, 

 quinqiiefidus, tubo corolla'. subcBqualis. Corolla glabra, lobis rotundatis, 

 patentibus. Stamina c squamis pubescentibus exorta. Anthei-se ovat(E, 

 basi obtuse sagittatce. 



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 Romer and Schultes' 

 Species Plantarum, where it is inserted with a definition 

 which, as far as it is intelligible (for what are stamhia 

 sagittata?), applies as well to P. caeruleum, 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. 



