COLLOMIA GRANDIFLO'RA. 
LARGE-FLOWERED COLLOMIA. 
Class. Order. 
PENTANDRIA. MONOGVNIA. 
Natural Order. 
POLEMONIACEA5. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
N. America. 
2§- feet. 
June, Aug. 
Perennial 
in 1831. 
No. 392. 
Collomia, from the Greek word kolla, signify- 
ing glue. The term was applied in allusion to a 
mucilaginous secretion which is found on the seeds 
of Collomia. 
This plant is of upright growth, and its lateral 
branches never grow inconveniently diffuse. The 
soft buff tint of its flowers, being of rare occur- 
rence in the garden, excepting in some species of 
honeysuckle renders it desirable as a novelty in 
this particular. It is of the most easy culture and 
free growth, for should its seeds be shed from the 
parent plant, when ripe, they will quickly spring up, 
and bid defiance to all the severities of winter; and 
of course w ill flower earlier in the succeeding sum- 
mer, than those produced by spring sowing. 
We trace, in the Collomia, a propensity not un- 
commonly met with in human nature. When liv- 
ing under the most favourable circumstances it pro- 
duces its flowers most sparingly. They are then 
but dotted over its hemispherical head, two or three 
at a time; but if it be grown in very poor soil, or 
its roots confined in pots, plunged in the borders, 
its flowering will be much more free. 
Bot. Reg 1 . 1174. 
