POLKJIONIUM FAMILY. 2G1 



%2. y. Wild in mostli; dri) or roch/ ffmund, also rommon in gardens, where the. 



species are much C7'ossed and varied. 

 « Stems erect : Jiowers in ob/oiig or pyramided panicle, with short peduncles and 



pedicels : lohs of corolla entire, pink-purple, and mth white varieties. 



Wild from Pennsylvania S. and W. : fi. summer. ' 



P. paniculita. Smooth, or some varieties ronghish 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. 



» » Sterns ascending or erect, hut often with a prostrate base, 1° - 3° high : whole 

 plant smooth, not clammy nor glandular: Jiowers cori/mbed : lobes of corolla 

 round and entire. Wild chiefly W. and S., seldom cult. : fi, summer. 



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

 shaped; flowers croA'ded, short-peduncled, pink; calyx-teeth acute. 



P. glab6rrima. Slender; leaves often linear-lanceolate, 3' -4' long; 

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



* it * Flmvermg stems ascending, or in the first erect, low, terminated by a loose 

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

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



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 (1'- 2^' 

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

 rose, or rarely white corolla obovate and entire. 



P. amcfelia. 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-bracted corymb, with straight 

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



P. r^ptaus. Moist woods from Penn. and Kentucky S. : 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 (1' broad). 



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

 stems loosely spreading ; leaves ovate-objong or ta-oad-lanceolate (l'-2' long) ; 

 flowei-s 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-pubiscent leaves : flowers 

 feu) in the depre'ssed clusters, in early spring. 



P. subulata, Gbocnd 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 ^' long ; corolla pink-purple, rose with a darker eye, or 

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



2. GILIA. (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. coronopifdlia, or Ipomopsis, called CrPKESs Gii-iA 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, 1^' long. (Lessons, p. 101, fig. 201.) ® 



G. androsacea, 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. ® 



