1056 MENYANTHACEAE 
braet.  Calyx-lobes 2, dilated upward. 
Corolla white, pinkish, or purplish, ra 
funnelform: lobes 4, about as long as the 
tube.—One Done 
O. virginica Plant purplish- m 
5-20 em. a tall: jen (seales) 5—10 long, 
ro patulae: corolla 7-10 mm. long: 
lobes Paes as the tube, acute: 
eile, 5 : long.— (PENNY WORT. )— 
Moist thickets "and rieh woods, various 
provinces, Fla. to Tex., Ill., and N. J ——Spr. 
11i. LEIPHAIMOS Schlecht. & Cham. Annual or perennial humus-plants. 
Leaves mere scales. Flowers solitary or in cymes. ae 4 or 5, narrow, 
commonly about as long as the tube. Corolla 
white or variously colored, salverform: lobes 
4 or 5, much shorter than the tube.—About 
20 species, mostly tropical American. 
1. I. parasitica Schlecht. & Cham Plant 
pale, 1-4 dm. tall: leaves (scales) opposite, 
mm. long: calyx -lobes lanceolate, acute: 
m. long, a 
e Fla. and Florida Keys — (W. I.)—AM 
yea 
Famity 3. MENYANTHACEAE — BoaBEAN FAMILY 
. Perennial aquatic or bog herbs. peri alternate; blades simple or 
3-foliolate. Flowers perfect, solitary, or in clusters or racemes 
of 5 partly united sepals. Corolla ae or colored, rotate or funnelform. 
Androecium of 5 stamens, with the filaments partly adnate to the paca 
ube. Gynoecium of 2 united carpels. Style short. Fruit a cap- 
sule, sometimes indehiseent.—Five genera and "aont 35 species, sudo 
distribu ted. 
NYMPHOIDES [Tourn.] Hill. Aquatie herbs. Leaves with elongate 
petioles and broad blades with a deep basal sinus. Flower- clusters sometimes 
tuber-bearing, borne on a petiole-like stalk. Calyx-lobes narrow. 
tate. Fi 
ro 
Capsule ellipsoid to ovoid. [Limnanthemum J. F. Gmel. ]—About 20 species, 
widely distributed in temperate and tropical regions.—FLOATING-HEARTS 
Leaf-blades relatively small: corolla about twice as long as the calyx: capsule 
af blade longer than the calyx: seed smooth 1. N. lacunosum. 
eaf-bla 
lyx 
2. N. aquaticum. 
