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generic name, implies, the plant has bitter properties. 

 This serves as a protection against cattle. 



The Felwort is called Baldemoyne, Baldmoney, 

 Bitterwort, Feldwood, Felwort, Fieldwort. 



Gentiana Amarella. — Note in the illustration {Fig. 

 26), the erect habit, also the stalkless, ovate leaves, the 

 loose panicle of flowers, the cylindrical corolla, longer 

 than the calyx. 



50. The Jacob's Ladder Group. 



Only one member of the Order Polemoniaceae is 

 found in the British Isles. There are, however, 

 about two hundred species and eight genera. Most 

 of them are found in temperate N. or W. America, 

 Europe or N. Asia, but some of them are natives of 

 W. S. America, in Chili and Peru. Some are 

 Arctic. 



In this group are included the Phloxes of the 

 garden and other cultivated plants. The Order is 

 related to the Convolvulus group. 



Most of the species are herbaceous, but some are 

 shrubs, or shrubby below, and include both annual 

 and perennial plants. They are smooth or hairy. 

 The leaves are alternate, or opposite below, entire or 

 divided, devoid of stipules. 



The flowers are in terminal cymes, regularly 

 dividing into two branches, or in panicles, or in 

 heads. They are hermaphrodite, regular, or zygo- 

 morphic, and most of the flowers are blue or white. 



