IXX GARDEN BOTANY. 



3. Whitlavia grandiflora, a showy low Californian annual, with round- 

 ovate coarsely-toothed leaves, and a lax raceme of tubular-bdl-shapcd blue 

 flowers, over au inch long ; s aniens exsertcd ; seeds numerous. 



OIIDER POLEMONIACE^Ej. POLEMONIUM FAMILY. 



Manual, p. 329. Furnishes many ornamental plants to the gardens, all hut 

 a few North American, many from California and Texas. 



Herbs, not climbing. 



Corolla salver-form with a long tube : stamens enclosed in tbe tube, 

 inserted at unequal heights : leaves entire, sessile, all but the 



uppermost opposite. 1. PHLOX. 



Coj >;ia of various shapes : stamens equally inserted, not declined : 



leaves often cleft or compound 2. GIL1A. 



Corolla between bell-shaped and wheel-shaped : stamens declined, 



hairy appendagcd at the base: leaves pinnate. ... 3. POLEMONIUM 

 Climbing by tendrils at the end of the pinnate leaves : calyx of 5 large 

 and ovate foliaceous sepals: corolla campamtlate: staim-ns 

 declined : a large and fleshy 5-lobed disk around the base of the 

 ovary : seeds winged. 4. COB(EA. 



1. Phlox. Man. p. 330, where the perennial species cult, in gardens are de- 

 scribed. The handsome annual Phloxes recently common all come from 



P. DmniniOlldi. Low, widely branched, glhndular-pubeswnt : leaves 

 oblong and lanceolate, the upper cordate-clasping at ba.se; corolla crimson, 

 purple, varying to rose and white. 



2. Gilia tricolor. Californian annual, with 2 -3-pinnately divided alternate 

 leavi-s, linear divisions, and a few loosely panicled flowers; corolla between 

 btili-shapcd and tunnel-form, bluish-lilac with a purple throat and yellow tube. 



G. capitata. Annual from Oregon, twice-pinnate leaves, alternate, with 

 almost filiform divisions, and a head of light blue flowers. 



G. androsacea. Californian annual, low and slender; leaves opposite, 

 p:\hnately 5 - 7-cleft, divisions narrowly linear; flowers capitate-clustered; 

 corolla salver-shaped, with a very long tube, lilac or whitish with a dark eye. 



G. coronopifolia, CYPRESS GILT A. Biennial, from S States, 3 -5 

 high, strict, very leafy ; leaves pinnately divided into filiform divisions; flow- 

 ers in H long and very narrow thyrsus; corolla 1^' long, tubular-funnel- 'an 

 light scarlet with whitish specks inside. 



3. Polemonium CSerilleum, GREEK VALKHIAX. Stem erect, leafy; 



ts many, lanceolate ; corymbs many-flowered ; flowers deeper blue than 

 in P. rejitans, Man. p. 330. 



4. Oobcea SCandens, from Mexico, cult, ns nn annual, climbing high, 

 corolla green turning dull violet, 2' or more in diameter. 



ORDEU CONVOLVULACE^J. CONVOLVULUS FAMILY. 



Manual, p. 332. Most of those there described are cultivated for ornament, 

 also the following : 



1. Quainoclit VUlgaris, CYPRKSS-VINE. Annual twiner; leaves deli 

 cale, pectinate ; corolla trumpet-shaped with a spreading border, crimson f 

 scarlet. 



