POLEMONlACEiE. 



Kussian Asia, except the extreme north ; 

 extending eastward to China. Found 

 in many English counties ; but in most 

 instances introduced as an ornamental 

 plant, and scarcely ever naturalized in 

 Ireland. Fl. summer. 



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Fig. 677. 



XLIX. POLEMONIUM FAMILY. POLEMONIACE^I. 



Herbs or rarely shrubs, the flowers usually in terminal cymes 

 or panicles. Calyx 5-cleft or 5-toothed. Corolla. regular, 5-lobed, 

 the lobes twisted in the bud. Stamens 5, inserted in the tube, 

 and alternating with the lobes. Ovary single, 3-celled, with 

 several or rarely a single seed in each cell, inserted in the inner 

 angle. Style simple, with 3 stigmatic lobes. Capsule 3-celled, 

 opening in 3 valves by slits opposite the middle of the cells. 



A small family, spread over northern Asia and America, and western 

 South America. Besides the European genus, it includes the Phloxes, 

 Gilias, and Collomias of our flower-gardens, as well as the shrubby 

 Cantuas and climbing Cobceas of our planthouses. 



I. FOLEMOHIUM. POLEMONITJM. 



Herbs, with pinnate leaves, and blue or white flowers in terminal 

 corymbs. Calyx 5-lobed. Corolla with a very short tube, and a broad, 

 open, 5-cleft limb. Stamens oblique, their filaments dilated into hairy 

 scales. Capsule w T ith several seeds. 



A small genus, extending all round the northern hemisphere, chiefly 

 at high latitudes. 



