Ifoerbaceous plants. 339 



plant for riversides and margins of water generally or in 

 grassy woods. The moneywort (Ij. num- 

 mularia) is a small trailer growing in moist 

 meadows or on grassy banks ; leaves opposite, 

 rounded ; flowers large yellow, axillary. Of- 

 ten used in vases and window-boxes. Fine in 

 damp places in a rockery, or on moist banks. 

 Water Violet, Hottonia palustris. A 

 handsome water plant with simple leafy stems 

 one or two feet high ; leaves pectinate, feath- 

 ery ; flowers white or lilac with a yellow 

 eye, in whorls forming a long terminal ra- 

 ceme. Flowers in June. Pretty in shallow 



FIQ. 149. WATER 



water or 111 bogs. VIOLET (HOTTONIA 



PALUSTRIS). 

 THE BLADDERWOKT FAMILY. 



Bladderwort, Utricularia. A genus of very handsome 

 water plants common in pools and ditches and nice for 

 growing in cisterns and small artificial waters. The follow- 

 ing are common : U. vulgaris, leaves pinnate, divided into 

 thread-like segments. The stems floating by means of 

 bladders formed on the leaves ; flowers several in a raceme, 

 inflated, yellow. U. purpurea, flowers three or four in a 

 raceme, violet-purple. 



THE BIGNO1STA FAMILY. 



Dwarf Trumpet Flower, Incarvittea Olgcz. A very or- 

 namental perennial three or four feet high, has pinnate, 

 opposite leaves with pinnatifid segments. Stems very 



