'10* PENTANDRIA, MONOGYNIA: 



Hairy Lychnidea. 



At Landsdown, near Breck's Island, Schuylkill. 

 Perennial. May. 



Rare. 



subulata. 



3. P. procumbent, hirsute ; leaves subulate, ciliate j 

 corymbs few flowered ; segments of the corolla 

 cuneate, emarginate ; teeth of the calix subulate, 

 hardly shorter than the tube of the corolla. — 

 Pursh. 

 Icon.Bot. Mag. 411. 



Ground Pink. Wild Pink. 



A very beautiful species, now cultivated in gardens . Flow- 

 ers purplish red, with a purple star in the centre. In the 

 sandy dry woods of Jersey, abundant. Perennial. April. 



May. 



101. POLEMONIUM. Gen. pi. 289. (Polemonia.) 



Calix subcampanulate, 5-cleft. Corolla some- 

 what rotate, 5-lobed, tube short, closed at 

 its base by 5 staminiferous valves or scales. 

 Stigma trifid. Capsule 3-celled, superior. 

 — Nutt. 



reptan*. l. P. leaves pinnate, generally by sevens ; flowers 

 terminal, nodding. — Sp. PL 



Icon. Mill. ic. 2. t. 209. (Pursh.) 



Creeping-rooted J acotfs- ladder. 



Tliis beautiful plant is often met with in the flowerpots 

 of t) ose who keen a few plants in their windows during the 

 winter season. It is much valued, without being known to be 

 a wild inhabitant of oui neighbourhood. Flowers sky-blue. 

 On i he Wissahickon creek, near rivulets ; also close to the 

 spot where C/?n S0S plenium ofipositifolium grows. Rare. Pe- 

 rennial. April, May. 



