1XX GARDEN BOTANY. 







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

 ovate coarsely-toothed leaves, and a lax raceme of tubular-bell-shaped blue 

 flowers, over an inch long ; s amens exserted ; seeds numerous. 



ORDER POLEMOWIACEJS. POLEMONIDM FAMILY. 



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

 a few North American, many from California and Texas. 



Herbs, not climbing. 



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

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



uppermost opposite. . . - . 1. PHLOX. 



Corolla 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 appendaged at the base : leaves pinnate. ... 3. POLEMONIDM. 

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

 and ovate foliaceous sepals : corolla campanulate : stamens 

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

 oyary : seeds winged. 4. COBCEA. 



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. Drummondi. Low, widely branched, glandular-pubescent ; leaves 

 oblong and lanceolate, the upper cordate-clasping at base ; corolla crimson, 

 purple, varying to rose and white. 



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

 leaves, linear divisions, and a few loosely panicled flowers ; corolla between 

 bell-shaped and funnel-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, 

 palmately 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. C9ronopifolia, CYPRESS GILIA. Biennial, from S. States, 3-5 

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

 ers in a long and very narrow thyrsus ; corolla 1^' long, tubular-fun nel-^c-rm 

 light scarlet with whitish specks inside. 



3. Polemonium CSeruleum, GREEK VALERIAN. Stem erect, leafy; 



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

 in P. repttnis, Man. p. 330. 



4. Cobcea SCandens, from Mexico, cult, as an annual, climbing high, 

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



ORDER CONVOLVULACEJE. CONVOLVULUS FAMILY. 



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

 also the following : 



1. Quamoclit VUlgaris, CYPRESS-VINE. Annual twiner; leaves dell 

 cate, pectinate ; corolla trumpet-shaped with a spreading border, crimson or 

 scarlet. 



