POLEMONIUM FAMILY. 261 



§ 2. ^ Wild in mostly dri/ or rorlcy r/round, aho common in gardens, where the 

 species are much crossed and varied. 



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



pedicels : lobes of corolla entire, pink-purple, and with white varieties. 

 Wild from Pennsylvania S. and W. : jl. summer. 



P. panicul^ta. Smooth, or some varieties roughish or soft hairy, 2° -4° 

 high, stout ; leaves oblong or ovate-lanceolate and mostly with tapering base; 

 panicle broad ; calyx-teeth sharp-pointed. 



P. macul^ta. Smooth; stem slender, l°-20high, purple-spotted lower 

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

 base ; panicle fong and narrow, leafy below ; calyx-teeth hardly pointed. 



* * Stems ascending or erect, bat of en icith a prostrate base, 1° - 3° high : whole 



plant smooth, not clammy nur glandular : flowers corymbed : lobes of corolla 

 ronid and entire. Wild chiefly W. and S., seldom cult. : fl. summer. 

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

 shajjed ; flowers crowded, short-peduncled, pink ; calyx-teeth acute. 



P. glab^rrima. Slender; leaves often linear-lanceolate, 3' -4' long; 

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



* * * Floivering stems ascending, or in the first erect, low, terminated by a loose 



corymb, which is cknnmy-pubescent more or kss, as well as the' thinnish 

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



P. pil6sa. From N. Jersey to Wisconsin & S. : mostly hairy ; erect 

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

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

 rose, or rarely white corolla obovate and entire. 



P. proedmbens. Barrens from Virg. S. & W. : pubescent, spreading 

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

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

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



P. r^ptans. Moist woods tVnn Penn. and Kentucky S. : spreading by 

 long runners, whicli bear round-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 (1' broad). 



P. divarieata. 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 pediincled ; 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-pubescent leaves: flowers 

 few in the depressed clusters, in early spring. 



P. SUbul^ta, Ground or Moss Pink. Wild on rocky hills W. & S. of 

 New England, and common in gardens, fonning 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. coronopifdlia, or Ipomopsis, called Cypress Gilia from the 

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

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

 divided into tlircad-like leaflets, and very long and narrow strict leafy panicle 

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

 S])ecks on the lobes inside, 1^' long. (Lessons, p. 101, fig. 201.) @ 



G. androsdcea, or Lkptosiphon androsacehs, of California; low and 

 slender, with opiiosite leaves pahnately cleft into .5-7 narrow linear divisions, 

 a head like cluster of (lowers with very long and slender but small salver-shaped" 

 corolla, lilac or whitish with a dark eye. ® 



