POLEMONIUM. 



of Northern Arizona. It makes an erect-growing tuft, densely 

 glandular-hairy, and with the leaves as long as the flower-stem or 

 longer. The tubular blue blossoms are packed in huddled heads on 

 :u of 2 inches or so, and the uprising leaves are built of very very 

 tiny Leaflets arranged round their st.dk in whorls of four. 



P. mdlitum. See under P. confertum. 



P. micranthum has only the credit of honestly proclaiming its 

 worthlessness of little blossom in its name. 



P. occidentale can hardly bo separated from P. coeruleum. The 

 flowers are a trifle smaller as a rule, and vary from white to cream, 

 and then on into violet and deep purple ; while the plant forms a 

 short creeping rhizome, sending up unbranching stems. 



P. pauciflorum stands about 18 inches high, and has tubular 

 flowers of yellow, with the leaflets not tight -packed upon the leaves. 



P. pectination is a species of quite special rarity, from the Eastern 

 part of Washington State. It has ferny foliage and yellowish flowers. 



P. pterospermum, from Colorado and New Mexico, is weakly in 

 habit, and sends out a number of stems of 4 inches or 8 inches, that 

 he about spread over the ground, specially leafy and glandular in the 

 upper part, but smooth below. The flowers are purple saucers, half 

 an inch wide, and half an inch deep, carried in dense sprays. 



P. " pulchellum" does not exist. See P. pulcherrimum. 



P. pulcherrimum is the lovely thing that has confused catalogues 

 so sadly. Every garden plant called P. humile and P. pulchellum, 

 or P. humile pulchellum, is nothing but a diminished form of the species 

 P. pulcherrimum. The type is a slender, sparingly-branched grower, 

 minutely sticky, with stems that vary between 4 inches and a foot, very 

 graceful in their habit, and very numerous, spraying out into clusters 

 of slender-stemmed blue blossoms, saucer-faced, and white in the throat, 

 and deeply cleft in the lobe. It is a high-alpine with many varieties, 

 in which P. p. humile and P. p. pulchellum are included, and differ 

 from it only for the worse, in having markedly smaller flowers. But 

 there is another variety called P. p. parvifolium, with the lobes 

 almost uncloven, fine and full, much longer and larger than the 

 tube. P. pulcherrimum indeed deserves its name, and in cultiva- 

 tion is as good as it is beautiful ; so that, within reason, no decent 

 culture comes amiss to it. P. p. humile is the gardener's P. 

 " Richardson it." 



P. reptans has no stickiness at all ; the leafage is after the pattern 

 of P. coeruleum, and the plant forms a widening clump, having a 

 creeping rhizome, but very rarely throwing runners. Its stems are 

 about a foot high, carrying pendent bell-slaped flowers of lovely light - 



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