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HYDROPHYLLACEH. (WATERLEAF FAMILY.) 81 
1. NEMOPHILA, Nutt. 
Calyx 5-parted. Corolla rotate-campanulate, deeply 5-lobed, the throat appendaged 
with 10 internal plates or scales-—Tender herbs with diffuse and procumbent stems, and 
pinnately lobed or divided leaves, more or less hirsute. 
* Leaves mostly alternate; stems long and weak, beset with stiff reflexed bristles, 
1. N. aurita, Lindl. Leaves large, with auriculate dilated and clasping base or 
winged petiole deeply pinnatifid into 5 to 9 retrorse lobes; corolla violet, 5 to 12 lincs in 
diameter. 
** Leaves opposite not auricled at base. 
2. N. maculata, Benth, Leaves lyrately pinnatifid into 5 to 9 short lobes, or the 
appermost only 3-lobed; corolla white, with a violet spot at the top of each lobe, over 
an inch across, 
3. W. insignis, Dougl. Leaves similar to the last; corolla bright blue, its scales 
short and roundish, partly free. 
4, W. Menziesii, Hook & Arn. Leaves less divided than the last; corolla from 
light blue to white and sprinkled with dots toward the center, its scales narrow and ad- 
herent by one edge. ‘ 
° * * Upper leaves often alternate, mostly longer than the peduncles, and slender-petioled, 
many only 3—5-lobed, one-sided. 
5. IN. parviflora, Dougl. Slender and weak; corolla 2 to 5 lines across, light blue 
or white. 
2. HLLISIA, L. 
Calyx 5-parted. Corolla campanulate, short in proportion to the calyx; scales minute 
or obsolete. Stamens and style not exserted. 
1. EH, chrysanthemifolia, Benth. Stem 1 or 2 ft. high, erect, branched 3 leaves dis- 
sected into very many small and short divisions; flowers, small, white; capsule remark- 
able, viz.: the mostly four ordinary rough seeds enclosed between the placentz, while, 
between each placenta and the valve which it lines, is hidden a single thin, meniscoidal, 
smooth seed. 
3. PHACELIA, Juss. 
Calyx deeply 5-parted, the divisions usually narrow and similar; corolla from ataniek 
rotate to narrow-funnelform; commonly with appendages upon the inside of the tube in 
the form of 10 vertical plates, approximate in pairs between the bases of the filaments 
or adnate to the filaments, one on each side. Stamens equally inserted low down or at 
the base of the corolla. Herbs, mostly hirsute or hispid and branched from the base; 
with simple or compound alternate leaves, or the lower opposite and more or less scor- 
picid infloresence. Corolla never yellow exceptin the throat. Ovules and seeds 4 in all 
except the last species. (See ADDENDA.) 
