POLEMONIUM FAMILY. 261 



2. ^ Wild in mostly dry or rocky ground, also common in gardens, where the 

 species are muck 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. : Ji. summer. 



P. paniculata. 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. maculata. Smooth; stem slender, l-2 high, purple-spotted lower 

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

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



* * Stems ascending or erect, but often with a prostrate base, 1 -3 high: whole 



plant smooth, not c'ammy nor glandular : flou'crs coryntbed : lobes of corolla 

 round and entire. Wild chiefly \V. and S., seldom cult. : fl. summer. 

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

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



P. glaberrima. Slender; leaves often linear-lanceolate, 3' -4' long; 

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



# # * Flowering stems ascending, or in the Jirst erect, low, terminated by a loose 



corymb, winch is dammy-puljescent more or less, as well as the thinnish 

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



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

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

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

 rose, or rarely white corolla olx>vate and entire. 



P. amcteha. Barrens from Virg. to 111. & S. : pubescent, spreading 

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

 sterile shoots, short ; flowers in a crowded leafy-bractcd corymb, with straight 

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



P. reptans. Moist woods from I'enn. and Kentucky S. : spreading by 

 long runners, which bear round-obovate often smoothish leaves, those of the low 

 flowering stems oblong or ovate (al>out ' long) ; flowers few but crowded ; lobes 

 of the dee)) pink-purple corolla ror,nd-ol>ovate, larg-e (!' broad). 



P. divaricata. Moist woods from N. New York W. & S. : soft-pubescent; 

 stems loosely spreading ; leaves ovate-oblong or broad-lanceolate (l'-2' long) ; 

 flowers loosely coryntbed and pedimcled ; corolla large, pale lilac, bluish, or 

 lead-colored, the lobes \vedge-obovate or commonly inversely heart-shaped and 

 as long as the tube. 



# * * * Stems creeping and tnfted, rising little above the ground, almost woody, 



persistent, as are the rigid and croivded glandular-pubescent leaves: flowers 

 few in the depressed clusters, in early spring. 



P. SUbulata, GROUND or Moss TIXK. Wild on rocky hills W. & S. of 

 New England, and common in gardens, forming broad mats ; leaves awl-shaped 

 or lanceolate, at most long; corolla pink-purple, rose with a darker eye, or 

 varying to white, the \vedge-obovate lobes generally notched at the end. 



2. GILT A. (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. coronopif61ia, or IPOMOPSIS, called CYPRESS GILIA from the 

 foliage resembling that of Cypress- Vine : wild S. and cult. ; 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, H' long. (Lessons, p. 101, fig. 201.) 



G. androsacea, or LKPTOSIPHON ANDROSACEUS, of California; low and 

 slender, with opposite 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. 



