STATE GEOLOGIST. 109 



HYDROPHYLLACE.E. Waterleaf Family. 



HYDROPHYI.LUM, Tourn. Waterleaf. 



H. Virginicum, L. Waterleaf. 



Common, occasionally abundant, through the south half of the state ; extending 

 north at least to Morrison county (plentiful), Upham, and Clay county in the Red river 

 valley, Gectge. 



H. appencliculatiim, Michx. Waterl'^af. 



Lake Pepin, Miss Manning-^ Blue Earth county, Lciberg. South. 



EL.LISIA, L. Ellisia. 



E. Nyctelea, L. (Including the slender form, E. ambigua, Nutt., which pre- 

 vails here. ) Ellisia. 

 Frequent through the south half of the state and in the Red river valley. 



PHACELIA, Jus5. Phacelia. 



P. Purshii, Buckley. Phacelia. 



Gray's Synoptical Flora of J\ . A. ; Goodhue county, Sandberg. Rare. South- 

 east. 



P. Frankliiiii, Gray. Phacelia. 



Shores of lake Superior, especially on Isle Royale, Gray's Manual; abundant at 

 Port Arthur, Macoun; surely also in northern Minnesota. 



POLEMONIACE^. Polemonium Family. 



POLEMONIUM, Tourn. Greek Valerian. 



P. reptaus, L. Greek Valerian. 



Hesper, Iowa, adjoining Fillmore county (common), Mrs. Carter; Winona, Hol- 

 zinger; lake Pepin, Miss Manning; Cannon River Falls, Blake, Sandberg; extending 

 northwest to New Ulm, Leiherg, &nd Alexandria, Mrs. Terry. Infrequent. South- 

 east. 



PHLOX, L. Phlox. 



P. maculata, L. Wild Sweet William. 



Northfleld, Rice county, Chancy; Dakota county, Winchell, Upham; Minneapolis, 

 Herrick South. 



P. glaberrima, L. Phlox. 



St. Croix Falls, Miss Field; New Ulm, Ju/ii; uppsr Mississippi river. Garrison. 

 Infrequent. South. 



by which they readily adhere to the clothes of passers-by and to the coats of animals. 

 Leaves oblanceolate, subobtuse, the lower ones narrowed into winged petioles and 

 slightly decurrent, those on the upper part of the stem scarcely slalked, nearly opposite, 

 or 3 or 4 in a whorl, more or less clothed with hairs, many of whieh are hooked-pointed. 

 Peduncles very short, at first erect, afterwards recurved, l-flowered. Corolla },< inch 

 across, dull purplish blue. Calyx la fruit ',4 inch long, dorsally compressed, of 2 palm- 

 ately laciniate valves, adpressed to each other, with a prominent network of veins, 

 sparingly ciliated and clothed with bristly hairs. Nucules yellowish-gray, one-flfth 

 Inch long, thickly studded with smooth white scale-like patches, Soicerby's Engli.-<h 

 Botany, vol. vii. 



