POLKMONIDM FAMILY. 261 



§ 2. 3i Wild in mostly dry or rocky ground, also common in gardens, where the 



species are much 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. .- fl. summer. 



P. panicul^ta. 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. macul&ta. 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. 



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

 plant smooth, not clammy nor glandular: flowers corymbed: lobes of corolla 

 round and entire. Wild chiefly W. 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. glab6rrillia. 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 flrst erect, low, terminated by a loose 

 corymb, which is clammy-pubescent more or less, as well as the thinnish 

 leaves : flowers mostly peaicetled : calyx-teeth very slender : fl. late sjtring. 



P. pil6sa. From N. Jersey to Wisconsin & S. : mostly hairy ; erect 

 stems 1° or so high ; leaves lanceolate or linear and tapering to a point (!'- ai' 

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

 rose, or rarely white corolla obovate and entire. 



P. arndsna. Barrens from Virg. to HI. & 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-bracted corymb, with straight 

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



P. r^ptans. Moist woods from Penn. and Kentucky b. : spreading by 

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

 flowering stems oblong or ovate (about ^' long) ; flowers few but crowded ; lobes 

 of the deep pink-purple corolla round-obovate, large (I' broad). 



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

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

 flowers loosely corymbed and peduncled ; corolla large, pale lilac, bluish, or 

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

 as long as the tube. 



• » « * Stems creeping and tufted, rising little above the ground, almost woody, 

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

 few in the depressed clusters, in early spring. 



P. SUbul&.ta, Grocnd or Moss Pink. Wild on rocky hills W. & S. of 

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

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

 vaijying to white, the wedge-obovate lobes generally notched at the end. 



2. GIIiIA. (Named for one Gil, a Spanish botanist.) Species abound 



'from Texas and Kansas to California. Several are choice annttals of the 



gardens : fl. summer. 



G coronopifblia, 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 pmnately 

 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. (Lessons, p. 90, fig. 249.) ® 



G ancWoS^cea, or LeptosIphon androsaoeus, 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. ® 



