﻿and is now uuder cultivation : W. B. 1835. — Berksh. On a ditch-bank near 

 Windsor, but may possibly be the outcast of a garden : Mr. Gotobed. — Derbysh. 

 Matlock; Alfreton Brook: Mr. Coke. At the Lover’s Leap, Buxton: Mr. 

 Wood. By the side of the turnpike road in Bake well Meadows: Mr. Whatelv. 

 On the banks of the Wye between Buxton and Bakewell : Mr. O. Situs. Near 

 Haddon Hall: Mr. W. Chrisiy. Near Derby: Mrs. Aci.akd. Dovedale ; 

 Buxton; and near Castleton : Rev. W. T. Bree. — Lancash. In the Winyates 

 near Castleton: G. Crossfield, Esq. — Yorksh. Near Settle, Ingleton, and 

 Malcotnb Cove: Ray, and Teesdale. Gordale, plentifully: Mr. Brunton. 

 In a hollow place in the way from Gordale Scar to Maltham : D. Turner. 

 Esq. — SCOTLAND. On the coast two miles East of Queen’s-ferry, growing 

 with Arundo arenaria : Mr. Mauguan. In Arnistone Woods: Mr. Arnott. 

 Delvine Woods: Mr. Murray. Blackford Hill: Mr. Bainbridge. — IRE- 

 LAND. Knockmaroon Hill, near the Strawberry Banks: Mr. J. 1 . Mackay. 

 Perennial. — Flowers in June and July. 



Root fibrous. Stem upright, front 1 to 2 feet high, angular, 

 nearly smooth, leafy, hollow, unbranched ; panicled at the top. 

 Leaves alternate, each leaf composed of many elliptic-spear-shaped, 

 entire leaflets, with an odd one of nearly equal size. Flowers rather 

 drooping, numerous, their stalks a little downy. Calyx bell-shaped, 

 divided about half way down into five oblong, hluntish segments, 

 somewhat downy. Corolla between bell-shaped and wheel-shaped, 

 blue, frequently varying to white. 



The root-leaves have the greatest number of leaflets ; they are 

 sessile, broadest at the base, and somewhat pointed at the summit. 

 The stem-leaves are of the same form, but decrease upwards in size. 

 Besides the variety with white flowers, LtnNjEUS mentions another 

 with variegated flowers ; and a third with variegated leaves. 



It is a common plant in gardens, where it is easily increased, 

 either by seed, or by dividing the roots. It appears to prefer a 

 shady situation. Old authors reckon this among the valerians, with 

 which it has not the least affinity, either in Botanical characters, 

 sensible qualities, or medical virtues. 



Polemonia'ceas. — The few plants which compose this Natural 

 Order, are herbaceous, monopetalous dicotyledons, with opposite, 

 or occasionally alternate, compound, or simple leaves ; and upright 

 stems, or occasionally, as in Cobcea, a climbing one. Each flower 

 is composed of an inferior, monosepalous, 5-parted, permanent 

 calyx, which is sometimes irregular ; a regular, 5-lobed corolla ; 

 5 stamens inserted into the middle of the tube of the corolla, and 

 alternate with its segments ; a superior, 3-celled ovary, with a few 

 or many ovules, which are ascending or peltate ; a simple stifle ; 

 and 3-lobed stigma. The fruit is a 3-celled, 3-valved, few- or 

 many-seeded capsule, with a loculicidal or septicidal dehiscence ; 

 the valves separating from the axis. The seeds are angular or oval, 

 or winged ; sometimes they are enveloped in mucus, and covered 

 with spiral threads. The albumen is fleshy or horny, the embryo 

 sttaight, in the axis of the albumen ; the radical inferior ; and the 

 cotyledons foliaceous, elliptical, or plain. 



Polemonium caruleum is the only British example of this order. 



Most of the Polemonidcece are desirable plants for the flower- 

 garden, many of them, as the various species of Phlox, Gilia, and 

 Polemonium, being very ornamental. 



