. Wild flowers of Canada [microform]. Wild flowers; Flowers; Botany; Fleurs sauvages; Fleurs; Botanique. =^ PLATE 65. CREEK VALERIAN. POLEMONIUM REPTANS. (POLEMONIUM FAMILY.^ i^ennial from a knoily rOi*iii<Kk. atmi'sl gljfixins : stem tint ot tfiltntmg. ht^tmhtng; trdw\ tt/tfmjtf. x^it piitnati-, limg t^lnilfd â Uafitti Ihtn, . lattaitlate, mucionate; fiowers IM almost makftl (otyml*s; t//ti: pint muik »/«'r thaH lit/ enlarjiffi /mtlmg rtitvr. ICSIDES the handsome, many-colored phloxes and showy gilias, there is another genus of l>eautiful plants in the polemnnium family, tli
. Wild flowers of Canada [microform]. Wild flowers; Flowers; Botany; Fleurs sauvages; Fleurs; Botanique. =^ PLATE 65. CREEK VALERIAN. POLEMONIUM REPTANS. (POLEMONIUM FAMILY.^ i^ennial from a knoily rOi*iii<Kk. atmi'sl gljfixins : stem tint ot tfiltntmg. ht^tmhtng; trdw\ tt/tfmjtf. x^it piitnati-, limg t^lnilfd â Uafitti Ihtn, . lattaitlate, mucionate; fiowers IM almost makftl (otyml*s; t//ti: pint muik »/«'r thaH lit/ enlarjiffi /mtlmg rtitvr. ICSIDES the handsome, many-colored phloxes and showy gilias, there is another genus of l>eautiful plants in the polemnnium family, tlie gc-nus from which llic family takes its ;iame. The Gieek valerian, or Jacob's Ladder, of Kuroiie, poleniouiuin canikuni. is in this country l>y two or three closely related s|Kvies. Of these the creeping vakiian is the liest known and most connnon. It is a frci|uent plant in low, nch wihmIs from the Middle States to Missouri and southward. It tlowers in May and June. It is a pretty plant, with weak, spreading stems, coHijKiund leaves and loose clusters of showy, clear blue, Ijcll-shaixil H,)Wers. If the name " l)luel>ells" had not U-eii appropriated to other plants, it would be a filtinj; title for this. There are two other kinds of (ireek valerian in North America. One grows in the far northward and Northeastern Stales. The other is a native of the Rix-ky .Mountains. Hoth have long been considered identical with the European jwlemonium caruleum. but have been )cd as distinct .s])ccies by recent authors. The name polemonium is from a Greek word for war. Doubtless this is the reason that it has come to signify " nipture" in the language of flowers. It is a pity that so fine a plant should come to have so harsh a PtATB 66. OSWEGO-TEA. MONARDA DIDYMA. (MINT FAMILY.) stem fffrt, braitckfd. fout-anglfd, imouth of ilighll_\ Uaivs oppositf peliottd, otntr, ammiualt, ^hatply uiralf. hradi lurgr, tetmtnat
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