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Stern leafy. Leaves pinnate ; leaflets lanceolate or ovate-lan- 
ceoiate, acuminate. Mowers numerous, corymbose. Calyx deeply 
5-clcft ; segments ovate-lanceolate, sub-acute. Corolla two or 
three times as long as the calyx. Anthers oval. Plant glabrous, 
or glandular-pubescent above, 
In bushy places and by the sides of streams ; probably wild in 
Stafford, Derbyshire, Yorkshire, and "Westmoreland. It also occurs 
in many other counties both in England and Scotland, but very 
doubtfully wild, 
England, [Scotland,] Ireland. Perennial. Summer. 
Rootstock shortly creeping. Stem erect, 18 inches to 3 feet high, 
hollow, angular. Leaves with very numerous pairs of entire pinna? 
J to 1 inch long, connected together by a narrow herbaceous strip, 
which runs down each side of the common petiole. Mowers slightly 
drooping, very numerous, in corymbose cymes terminating the stem 
and branches, which taken together form a short corymbose-topped 
panicle. Calyx-segments longer that the tube, which becomes 
swollen and nearly globular after flowering. Corolla J to 1 inch 
across, deep blue, thin ; segments broad, subacute, spreading. 
Anthers yellow. Mlaments and style purple. Capsule erect, sub- 
globular. Seeds 6 to 10 in each of the three cells, angular, with 
a rugose testa produced into a short wing at the larger end. Plant 
green, glabrous, the upper part of the stem, upper leaves, branches, 
pedicels, and calyx generally clothed with very short gland-tipped 
hairs. 
Jacob's Ladder. 
This plant is also known as Greek Valerian. It is commonly admitted into our 
gardens, where both flowers and foliage become variegated. 
EXCLUDED SPECIES. 
GILIA TRICOLOR. Benth. 
In corn-fields, near Merchiston Castle, Edinburgh. 
COLLOMIA GRANDIFLORA. DougL 
Has occurred in cultivated fields at Thirsk. 
