POLEMONIUM. 



P. filkinum is a tall-growing sort after the style of P. coeruleum, 

 with no particular distinction of its own. 



P.flavum comes from New Mexico, and may be pictured as being 

 a version of P. m with flowers of clear yellow, tinted with 



mahogany-red outside. 



P. ft m is a tall and leafy thing, of the group that is 



crowded out of the garden by P. coeruleum. 



P. Gayanum would have no value in any case. 



P. grandiflorum is a most stately stalwart branching species from 

 the high Alps of Orizaba in Mexico, between 9000 and 12,000 feet, 

 carrying specially large bells of blossom, lilac or yellow, each almost 

 alone on its foot -stalk. 



P. H o.V.tr i. from California lose in many ways to P. occiden- 



tal e, but is as far as possible removed, not only from this but from all 

 the rest of the race, in that the anthers have hardly any stamens to 

 stand on, but are almost sessile to the base of the flower. 



P. Haydeni has no specific rank, and had better be reduced to 



P. pulcherrimum. It has a woody branching stock, and many stems 



varying from 4 inches to a foot . The leaves are crowded and the leaflets 



- •-•'ally numerous, while the tubular blue bells of blossom are no 



numerous, too. each half -drooping on its slender foot -stalk. 



P. h u '\ . — ' There ain't no sich a person.'*' See under P. lanatum 

 and P. pxdcherrimum. 



P. lanatum. — This is the rock-garden Queen of the family — a little 



running spreading mat, with tiny leaves packed with leaflets till they 



those of some crowded and slender Astragalus ; here and there 



come up several short stems of 2 or 3 inches or less, unfolding a most 



lovely bunch of great wide flowers of rich blue, hairy and almost 



" / {like all the rest of the plant), gathered in a close cluster. This 

 will want moraine of the best, or, better still, the Gentian-bed. For it 

 is a species of the Arctic region, ranging across the top of America and 

 over far Northern Asia too, developing many different forms, of which 

 P. 1. humile was figured in the Bot. Mag., T. 2800. as P. Bichardsonii, as 

 if its own varietal name were not sufficiently likely to create con- 

 fusions ; as. indeed, do the other ones. P. I. pulchellum. speciosum, 

 \atum, borcale. and villosum, all beauties of the most beautiful, 

 tiny alpine growers with heads of enormous round-faced blue blossom, 

 among which, perhaps, for almost stemless d wariness and un- 

 diminished size and brilliancy of blossom, P. I. humile may bear away 

 the palm. X r.e. al . . - yet in cult v ti n. though. 



P. Lemmonei, however, is a high -alpine, hardly less choice and 

 lovely, hailing from 12,000 feet up in the San Francisco mountains 



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