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2. LCESELIA. (John Lcesel was author of a flora of Prussia.) 2/ 



L. cocci nea, Don. A Mexican shrub, cult, in greenhouses for its long- 

 funnel-form scarlet flowers, which are solitary and sessile, but nearly 

 spicate ; calyx lobes awl-pointed and many times shorter than the corolla ; 

 leaves oval or ovate, pale, rugose and hairy below, very sharply toothed, 

 short-stalked ; stems hairy. 



3. GIL I A. (Philip Gil, a Spanish botanist.) Species abound from 

 Texas and Kansas to California. Several are choice annuals of the 

 gardens ; flowers summer. 



* Leaves either opposite or palmately divided to the base, or commonly 



both. 



G. linifldra, Benth. (Erroneously called G. LiNiF6LiA.) Diffuse and 

 spurrey-like, the divisions of the leaves nearly filiform ; flowers loosely 

 paniculate, on slender pedicels, white or tinted, |' across, nearly rotate. 

 Cal. Cult, for borders. 



G- androsacea, Steud. (or LEPTOSIPHON ANDROSACEUS). Low and 

 slender, with leaves palmately cleft into 5-7 narrow linear divisions, a 

 head-like cluster of flowers, with very long and slender but small salver- 

 shaped corolla, lilac or whitish with a dark eye. Cal. (f) 



* * Leaves (save occasionally the lowermost} alternate, mostly pinnately 



cleft. 



H- Flowers elongated, red. 



G. coronopifdlia, Pers. (or IPOMOPSIS). STANDING CYPRESS, from 

 the foliage resembling that of Cypress Vine ; has erect, wand-like stem, 

 2-3 high, thickly clothed with alternate, crowded leaves, pinnately 

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

 panicle of showy flowers ; the corolla tubular-funnel-form,' light scarlet 

 with whitish specks on the lobes inside, 1^' long. Sandy soil, S. Car., S. 

 and W., and cult. (2) (Lessons, Fig. 249.) 



i- - Flowers short, blue, or blue and white. 



G. achillecefblia, Benth. Pubescent, with flowers in a loose head ; 

 1 calyx woolly, the lobes with short recurved tips ; corolla violet-blue or 

 darker, with obovate or broadly oblong divisions. Cal. 



G. capitata, Dougl. Glabrous or very nearly so (as also the calyx) ; 

 l-2 high, with alternate leaves twice pinnately divided into small, 

 linear, or thread-like leaflets or lobes, and numerous small blue flowers 

 crowded in heads at the end of naked branches ; the corolla narrow 

 funnel-form, with lanceolate lobes. Cal. and Ore. 



G. tricolor, Benth. Stems branching, about 1 high ; scattered, alter- 

 nate leaves 2-3 times pinnately dissected into short linear divisions ; 

 flowers panicled at the end of the branches ; corolla short funnel-form 

 with lilac-purple or whitish lobes, brown-purple throat, and yellow tube ; 

 leaves and calyx somewhat viscid-pubescent. Cal. Common in gardens. 



4. POLEMONIUM, GREEK VALERIAN. (From the Greek word 

 for war, of no application. ) Flowers early summer. 11 



P. r^ptans, Linn. Woods of Middle States, also cult.; smooth, with 

 weak and spreading (but never creeping) stems G'-IO' long, 7-11 lance- 

 ovate or oblong leaflets, small corymbs of nodding light blue flowers, and 

 stamens and style not longer than the corolla. 



P. caerilleum, Linn. JACOB'S LADDER. Cult, in gardens from Eu., 

 also rarely wild N. ; smooth or sometimes hairy ; with erect stem l-3 



