310 Polemontacee—Polemontunt. 
Spring, though not quite hardy enough to withstand the 
severity of our Winters. It grows about 18 inches or 2 feet 
high, with the sessile leaves palmately divided to the base into 
linear rigid segments, and comparatively large solitary rose- 
coloured flowers, produccd in the greatest profusion from the 
tips of the short lateral branches. 
Ipomépsis élegans, syn. Gilia coronopifolia, is a tall slender 
biennial from 2 to 4 feet high, 
with divided leaves and ter- 
minal panicles of orange-scarlet 
flowers spotted with purple. 
There is also a rose-coloured 
variety. 
4, POLEMONIUM. 
ay we Perennial herbs with alter- 
ak = nate unequally pinnate leaves 
ee | and corymbose blue or white 
hi Kel flowers. Calyx campanulate. 
3 Corolla rotate, 5-lobed. Sta- 
i mens declinate, inserted on 
the throat of the corolla; 
filaments hairy at the base. 
Cells of the capsule many- 
seeded. There are about twelve 
species in temperate northern 
- regions. The name is from 
moAguos, War, but the applica- 
tion is not satisfactorily ex- 
plained. 
1. P. ceertilewm (fig. 174). 
Jacob’s Ladder, Greek Vale- 
rian.—An elegant border 
plant, and one of the oldest 
favourites in cottage gardens. , 
i Stems about 2 feet high, an- 
cular and fistular, and as well 
as the foliage glabrous or 
slightly pubescent, and glandular. Flowers white or blue, 
according to the variety, appearing in Summer. There is also 
a handsome variety with variegated foliage and white flowers. 
Fig. 174. Polemonium ceruieum. (} nat. size.) 
