W2 POPULAR PLOBA. 



Lobes of the salver-shaped or funnel-shaped corolla spreading, rounded. 



Each with one eHge outside and one inside in the bud : corolla very- 

 short, (Uyosbtis) Scokpion-Gkass or Fobget-me-not. 

 Two lobes cohering the others in the bud. ' 

 Corolla short, white or whitish, funnel-shaped, (Lithospermum) Gromwell. 

 Corolla long, orange-yellow, salver-shaped, (Lithospermum, ^ Buiscliia) PuccoON. 

 Akenes or lobes of the ovary prickly, fixed by their side or upper end to the base of tlie 

 style. Corolla salver-shaped, with 5 scales in the tliroat. 

 Erect, prickly on the margins only. Flowers small, ( EcMnospermum) Stickseed. 

 Oblique or flattened from above, short-prickly or rough all over, ( Ci/nof/lossum) Houkd's-tongue. 



* * Ovary not lobed, but splitting when ripe into 4 akenes : corolla short, ( fleliutrojnum) *Heliotuoi'e. 



65. WATERLEAF FAMILY. Order HYDROPHYLLACE^. 



Herbs ■with lobed, compound, or toothed and mostly alternate leaves ; the regular flowers 

 much like those of the Borrage Family, except as to the ovary, which is globular and onl)- 



one-celled and bears the 

 few or many ovules and 

 seeds on the walls (pari- 

 etal), or on two projections 

 from thein. In Waterleaf, 

 Nemophila, &c., the two 

 placentas, bearing the few 

 seeds, broaden and make 



452. Flower of Virginia Walerleaf. 453. Corolla taid open, and slamena. _ l^Jrifl nf linincr to tlip 



454. Calyx and young pod, with the style. ° 



pod. Corolla bell :haped 

 or wheel-shaped ; its lobes and the stamens always 5. Style 2-cleft dbo\e. The "Water- 

 leaf furnishes our principal plants of the family that are common wild. But some Ne- 

 mophilas and Phacelias, from Te.xas and California, are showy garden annuals. 



Leaves opposite, at least the lower ones. Stamens not projecting beyond the corolla. 



Calyx without appendages or teeth between #lie divisions, large in fruit, {EUislrt) Ellisia. 



Calyx with 5 reflexed teeth between the divisions, (Nemophila) *Nemoi'iiila. 



Leaves alternate: appendages of the calyx none or minute: stamens long. 



I\Iostly annuals: seeds on the walls of the pod, or two narrow placentas, (Phacelta) Phaoelta. 

 Perennials, with scaly-toothed rootstocks. Seeds 1 to 4, enclosed in a membrane 

 which lines the pod. Flowers white or bluish, clustt^red; filaments 

 bearded below, (Hi/drophyllum) Waterleaf. 



Waterleaf. Bydrophjllum. 



1. Virginia W. Smoothish, 1° or 2° high ; leaves pinnately divided into B or 7 narrow and toothed 



or cleft lobes ; calyx hairy. Rich Avoods. H. Vlrginicum. 



2. Canada W. Smoothish ; leaves rounded, palmately lobed, longer than the peduncle ; calys 



smooth. Rich woods- H. CanaJense. 



