. Botany for young people and common schools. How plants grow, a simple introduction to structural botany. With a popular flora, or an arrangement and description of common plants, both wild and cultivated. Botany. r>i POPULAR FLORA. 183 66. POLEMONIXJM FAMILY. Order POLEMONIACEiE. Herbs, not twining (but Cobasa climbs by tendrils), with regular flowers, all the parts in fives, except the pistil, which is 3-celle(l and the style 3-cleft at the top, the 5 sjjreading lobes of the corolla convolute in the bud, i. e. overlapping so that one edge of each is outside of that behind it, but inside
. Botany for young people and common schools. How plants grow, a simple introduction to structural botany. With a popular flora, or an arrangement and description of common plants, both wild and cultivated. Botany. r>i POPULAR FLORA. 183 66. POLEMONIXJM FAMILY. Order POLEMONIACEiE. Herbs, not twining (but Cobasa climbs by tendrils), with regular flowers, all the parts in fives, except the pistil, which is 3-celle(l and the style 3-cleft at the top, the 5 sjjreading lobes of the corolla convolute in the bud, i. e. overlapping so that one edge of each is outside of that behind it, but inside of the next one. Flowers generally handsome. All the kinds here given are cultivated; but the Phloxes are Avild in this country (especially W. and S.), and so is one Polemonium. Gllias are pretty garden annuals from California, &c. Cobaja, which is placed here, though very different from the rest, is a great- flowered vine from 457 456. Flowers of Polemonium. 437. Pod of 455 455. Flowers of Phlox. Poleni»:<'uiiii, cut across. Climbing by tendrils on the pinnate leaves: flowers axillary, single: calyx leafy: corolla bell-shaped, large, but dull-colored, ( Cobcea) * Not climbing: flowers in panicled cymes or clusters. Stamens inserted at very unequal heights on the long tube of the salver-shaped corolla, short, included: calyx narrow, 5-angled: seeds only one in each cell. Leaves all entire, sessile, and opposite, except the uppermost, {Phlox) Piiix)X. Stamens all inserted at the same height. Leaves mostly alternate and compound. Corolla almost wheel-shaped (light blue): stamens turned towards the lower side of the flower: leaves pinnate, {Polemdnium) Polemonium. Corolla funnel-shaped or salver-shaped: stamens not turned to one side: seeds several. Leaves once to thrice pinnately divided, (Gilia) Gilia. Phlox. Plilox. * Perennial herbs, growing in open woods, and in gardens. 1. Panicled P. Stem stout, 2° to 4° high; leaves lance-oblong and ovate-lanceola
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