polemonium

[Lat. pole mon i a; Gr. pole Bot.: Jacob's Ladder; the typical genus of Pole. moniacese (q. v.). Perennial herbs, with alternate, monion =the Greek valerian.] pinnate leaves; flowers corymbose; calyx campanulate; corolla rotate; stamens declinate; capsule ovoid, three-celled, many-seeded. Known species about twelve. pă-lěm-o-scope, s . [Fr., from Gr. polemos =war, and skopeō to see, to observe.] A gla with a mirror at an angle of 45°, designed to enable a person to view objects not directly before the eye. It is used in opera-gla es to view persons obliquely, without apparently directing the gla at them, and in field-gla es for observing objects beyond an obstructing wall or bank, as in the interior of a fortre . *pol-ě-mỹ, s. [Greek polemos =war.] War, warfare, contention, resistance.