WATERLEAF FAMILY. Hydrophyllaceae. 



There are only two kinds of Romanzoffia. 



This is a charming little perennial 

 Komanzoma . . /. 



Romanzoffia plant, which forms beautiful clumps of 



sitchensis delicate foliage and flowers, suggesting 



White some sort of Saxifrage. The many, 



Northwest etc smooth slender, pale green stems, from 

 four to nine inches tall, spring from slender, 

 threadlike rootstocks, bearing tubers, and the leaves are 

 mostly from the root, smooth, bright green, and prettily 

 scalloped, with long leaf-stalks. The flowers are in loose 

 clusters and are each half an inch or more long, with a 

 white corolla, which is without appendages inside and is 

 exceedingly beautiful in texture, with yellow stamens, 

 unequally inserted, and a long, threadlike style, with a 

 small stigma. These little plants grow in moist, shady 

 spots among the rocks, as far north as Alaska and often 

 reach very high altitudes, where it is a delight to find their 

 pearly flowers and lovely foliage in some crevice in the 

 cliffs watered by a glacier stream. These plants are found 

 as far north as Alaska and were named in honor of Count 

 Romanzoff, who sent the Kotzebue expedition to Alaska. 



There are several kinds of Emmenanthe, much like 

 Phacelia, but the stamens not protruding, and the corolla 

 bell-shaped, cream-color or yellow, becoming papery in 

 withering and not falling off, hence the Greek name, 

 meaning "lasting flower." 



A low plant, with many, downy branches, 

 Emmenanthe J ' J 



Emmenanthe spreading almost flat on the ground, and 



Ititea small, thickish leaves, light dull green, and 



Yellow slightly downy. The flowers are rather 



Spring, summer mofe than & quarter Q f an inch acros s, 

 Idaho, Nev., etc. 



with hairy calyxes, and bright yellow 



corollas, hairy outside, with ten little appendages inside, 

 and grow in coiled clusters. The little flowers are gay and 

 pretty and look bright and cheerful on the desert sands 

 where they live. This is found as far east as Oregon. 



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