WATER-LEAF FAMILY 



Fruit. — Capsule, globose, size of small pea, four-seeded; 

 only one of the seeds usually reaching perfection. 



Pollinated by bees. Nectar-bearing. 



Hydrophyllum is a leafy plant about a foot high, 

 forming colonies and communities in moist, shady 



Hydrophyllum. Hydrophyllum Virglnicum 



places, and blooming in May. Stems and leaves are 

 rather smooth, but the flower-cluster fairly bristles 

 with hairs. This cluster is a one-sided, coiled raceme 

 which unrolls as the buds come into bloom — a kind of 

 inflorescence called scorpoid, of which the garden gives 

 us in the Heliotrope an excellent example. 



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