POLEMONIUM POLEMONIACE® 461 
icle: leaves 6-20 lines long or the uppermost reduced to small subulate 
bracts, entire or the lower sometimes with 2 or3 small lobes: peduncles 
filiform or capillary : calyx small; its lobes subulate: corolla p:nk-red, 5-10 
lines long; its slender tube longer than the calyx, and rather abruptly 
expanded into a wide funnelform throat of about the length of the oval 
spreading lobes. On wet banks, California to Washington. 
-@. linearifolia. Minutely glandular: stem slender, 6-12 inches high, 
branching into an effuse panicle: leaves linear, 6-12 lines long, attenuate 
at both ends: peduncles filiform: calyx a line long, with short-oblong 
triangular-pointed lobes: corolla with a slender tube longer than the calyx, 
gradually expanded into afunnelform throat of about the length of the 
oblong lobes. In moist places, southern Oregon. 
8 POLEMONIUM Tourn. Inst. 146, t. 61. 
Herbs with alternate pinnate or pinnately parted leaves, and 
mostly showy flowers in cymose panicles, or racemes, or thyrsi- 
form. Calyx herbaceous throughout, neither angled nor costate, 
slightly accrescent and loosely investing the capsule, campanu- 
late or narrower, cleft to the middle, the lobes equal, erect or 
connivent over the capsule, or campanulate-spreading, ‘entire. 
Corolla regular, from funnelform to nearly rotate. Filaments 
more or less declined, and usually pilose-appendaged at base, 
slender. Ovules few or several in each cell. Seeds angular or 
winged, developing mucilage when wetted. 
1 Root annual. Flowers solitary, opposite the leaves. 
Corolla almost rotate, shorter than the broad and open deeply 
5-cleft calyx. Filaments almost naked at base. 
P. micrantha Benth. DC. Prodr. ix, 318. More or less viscid-pubes- 
cent: stem 2-8 inches long, diffusely much branched from the base: leaflets 
5-13, obovate to lanceolate, 2-4 lines long : calyx truncate at base, the broad- . 
ly lanceolate lobes 2 lines long, twice as long as the broad tube: peduncles 
mostly solitary, opposite the leaves or terminal: corolla white, a line or 
two long: ovules 1-3 in each cell: capsule globose, shorter than the calyx. 
In moist places, California to Brit. Columbia, east of the Cascade Mts. 
§ 2 Root perennial. Leaflets simple and entire, sometimes 
confluent. Inflorescence open and with very few bracts. Corolla 
campanulate-funnelform with tube not surpassing the open-cam- 
panulate calyx, and shorter than the ample spreading limb. 
Filaments usually dilated and pilose-appendaged at base. 
* Stem 6-10 inches high, from. cespitose-branching and mostly 
thickened rootstocks: leaflets seldom 6 lines long: flowering stems 
only 1-3-leaved : flowers cymulose. 
P. elegans Greene Pitt. iii, 305. Very viscid-pubescent throughout 
except the corolla: stems slender, 2-6 inches high ; simple or sparingly bran- 
- ched above: leaflets very numerous somewhat crowded, obovate to elliptical, 
_ a line or two long: flowers in a small cymulose cluster; calyx campanulate, 
cleft to the middle, with broadly lanceolate lobes: corolla blue with yellow 
throat, 6-7 lineslong, the broadly obovate lobes equalling the tube: filaments 
pilose at base: style barely exserted : capsule ovoid, much shorter than the 
calyx, few-seeded. On Mount Adams Washington near perpetual snow. 
P. humile Willd. in Rem. & Sch. Syst. iv, 792. Somewhat pilose 
