176 HYDROPHYLLACE.E. Eriodictyon. 



■ B. tomentosum, Benth. 1. c. White-tomentose with a dense coat of short villous 

 hairs, sometimes rusty-colored with age, 6 to 10 feet high : branches leafy to the top : 

 leaves oblong or oval, rigid, obtuse (2 to 4 inches long) : cymes at length broad : calyx 

 densely and corolla slightly villous, the latter somewhat salverform and about twice the 

 length of the former. — Torr. Mex. Bound. 148, &c. E. crassifoUum, Benth. 1. c, described 

 from flowers with imperfect corollas. — Southern part of California, San Gabriel to San 

 Diego and Tejon. 



B. glutinosum, Benth. 1- c. Glabrate, glutinous with a balsamic resin, 3 to 5 feet 

 high: leaves lanceolate (3 to 6 inches long), irregularly more or less serrate, sometimes 

 entire, whitened beneath between the reticulations by a minute and close toraentum, above 

 glabrous : cymes in an elongated naked thyrsus : corolla tubular-funnelform (half an inch 

 long), thrice the length of the slightly and sparsely hirsute calyx. — Wigandia Califomica, 

 Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beech. 364, t. 88. — Dry hills, rather common in California. Infusion 

 of the leaves in spirit used as a tonic, under the name of Verba Santa, 



E. angustifolium, Nutt. Glabrate and glutinous: leaves narrowly linear or narrowly 

 lanceolate, rigid, and the margins at length revolute : corolla 2 or 3 lines long, short-funnel- 

 form or approaching campanulate : otherwise nearly as in the preceding. — PI. Gamb. 181. 

 E. glutinosum, var. angustifolium, Torr. 1. c. — S. Nevada, Arizona, and adjacent parts of New 

 Mexico. Leaves JjJ to 4 inches long, 1 to 3 lines wide. 



14. HYDROLEA, I/r {T8a)Q, water, the plants inhabiting wet places.) 

 — Herbs, or rarely suffruticose plants (widely diffused in warm climates) ; with 

 ovate or lanceolate pinnately veined entire leaves, numerous on the stems, often 

 with a spine in the axils, and clustered blue or rarely white flowers. Sepals dis- 

 tinct to the base. Corolla rotate or very open campanulate, 5-cleft. Stamens 

 about the length of the corolla : filaments dilated at the insertion. Capsule 

 globular ; the fleshy or spongy placentce very large. Seeds minute, generally 

 striate-ribbed. Styles and placentae occasionally varying to 3. — Ours appear to 

 be perennials, flowering through the summer. 



H. corymbosa, Bll. Spineless or nearly so : stem slender, a foot or two high, above 

 minutely pubescent: leaves lanceolate, nearly sessile (an inch or so long), glabrous: 

 flowers in a terminal corymbose cyme : sepals linear-lanceolate, villous-hispid ; shorter 

 than the corolla: filaments and styles long and filiform. — Sk. i. 3.36; A. W. Bennett in 

 Jour. Linn. Soc. xi. 275. — Pine-barren ponds, S. Carolina to Florida. Expanded corolla 

 two-thirds of an inch in diameter. 



^H. affinis, Gray. More or less spiny, glabrous throughout of nearly so : stems ascend- 

 ing : leaves lanceolate, somewhat petioled (2 to 5 inches long) : flowers in short axillary 

 leafy-bracted clusters : sepals ovate, equalling the corolla : styles shorter than the capsule. 

 — Man. ed. 5, p. 370. H. leptocauUs, Featherman, Louisiana Univ. Rep. 1871. — S. Illinois 

 to Texas. Often confounded with the next. 

 H. Caroliniana, Miohx. More or less spiny, sparsely villous-hispid or the leaves 

 nearly glabrous: stem ascending: leaves lanceolate, short-petioled (3 or 4 inches long): 

 flowers in short axillary clusters, or solitary in the upper axils : sepals linear or linear- 

 lanceolate, about the length of the corolla: styles shorter than the capsule. — Fl. i. 177. 

 JJ. quadrivalvis, Walt. Car. 110, an older but false and deceptive name. H. panictdata, Kaf. 

 Neobot. 64. — N. Carolina to Florida and Louisiana 1 (S. Amer.?) 



-H. ovata, Nutt. Spiny, minutely soft-pubescent and above slightly hirsute: stems a 

 foot or two high, paniculately branched at summit : leaves ovate, sometimes ovate-lan- 

 ceolate (8 to 20 lines long) : flowers clustered at the end of the branches : sepals lanceolate, 

 very villous-hirsute, shorter than the corolla ; this an inch broad when expanded : filaments 

 and especially the styles long and filiform. — Fl. Arkans. in Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. ser. 2, 

 V. 196; Chois. Hydrol. t. 1 ; A. W. Bennett, I. c. 270. //. ovatlfolia, Raf. Neobot. (1836), 

 64. H. Ludoviciana, Featherman, 1. c. — Jlargin of ponds, Arkansas, W. Louisiana, and 

 Texas. (S. Araer.) 



