520 ADDENDA TO CAPTAIN FRANKLIN's NARRATIVE. 



Phacelia parviflora, Pursh, Am. i, p. 140. Polemonium 

 dubium, Linn. 



EUTOCA FRANKLINII, Tab. 27. ^ 



Eutoca erecta, foliis pinnatifidis bipinnatifidisve, ovulis 

 placentae singulse viginti pluribus. 



Rab. Abundantly amongst trees tliat have been de- 

 stroyed by fire, on the banks of the river Mississippi. 



Herba annua, erecta, pubescens, 6-10-uncialis. Radix 

 descendens subramosa. Caulis simplicissimus teres cavus, 

 crassitie pennse columbinse, fuscus, piUs acutis tenuibus 

 patulis pubescens. Folia radicalia conferta, caulina alterna; 

 omnia petiolata exstipulata pinnatifida (in plantis proce- 

 rioribus bipinnatifida), circumscriptione lanceolata, laciniis 

 lanceolatis integerrimis, inferioribus quandoque dentatis 

 incisisve, plana utrinque viridia pilisque caulinis similibus 

 pubescentia. Fetioli foliis breviores super canaliculati 

 basi parum dilatata semiamplexanti. Spicce racemosse 

 breves secundse, ebracteatse, novelise arcuato-recurvse, ap- 

 proximatse, terminales et e summis alis. 



Calyx monophyllus, sequalis, quinquepartitus sinubus 

 edentulis, foliaceus, persistans : lacinice lineares acutiusculse 

 planse, trinervise nervis lateralibus margini approximatis 

 medio venoso, hirsutse pilis acutis strictis uiarginalibus cre- 

 brioribus longioribusque. 



Corolla raonopetala, hypogyna, regularis, subcampanulata, 

 calyce sesquilongior, glabra limbo extus pube rara con- 

 sperso, caerulea immaculata, siccatione ssepius albescens, 

 decidua. Tubus intus nervis 15, ternatim cum staminibus 

 alternantibus, lateralibus ternationis singulse infra medium 

 auctis membranula lineari imbei'bi apice subtruncato 

 medium fere tubi attingenti, basi ad ortum filamenti 

 respondentis producta et cum eodem fere confluenti, versus 

 nervura medium conniventi. Faux nuda. Limbus tubo 

 brevior, 5 partitus, sequalis, patens, lobis subrotundis in- 

 tegerrimis planis, venosis venis anastomosantibus, sesti- 



' [/S'ee note at vol. i, p. 187.] 



