272 IIYDROPIIYLLACEiE. 



Allegheny mountains. July. Slem about 1 foot hisrh, ,i!mo?t leafless. Rn^t- 

 Uavesl foot long, with 9 to 13 division,-. Flowers white in a terminal ir'objati 

 eymc, crowded. LxrroUa twice longer than the sepals. Filaments % inch long. 



2. II. VlRGlNlCTJM, L. Virginian Waterloo/. 



Smoothish; leaves pinnately divided, the divisions ovat>lanceola*e or oblonjr, 

 pointed, sharply cut-toothed, the lowest meetly ^-parted, the uppermost confluent; 

 peduncles as long asthe petioles; calyx-lohes narrow-linear, briitly-eiliate. 



Rich moist wood.: and f^:iee-rows; common. June. Stem 12 to 16 inches high, 

 often branched from the base. Leaves pinnately cut v into-5 to 7 segment*, on long 

 petioles. Flowers white or blue, in crowded elusters, on forked peduncles. 



3. H. Canadense, L. Canadian Waterleaf. 



Nearly smooth ; leaves palmatcly 5 to 7-lobed, rounded, h?art- base, 



unequally toothed; the radical leaves sometimes with 2 



lateral leaflets; peduncles mostly shorter than the long petioles, forked, the crowd- 

 ed Cowers on very short petioles. , 



Shady woods. June. S^ml2tol8i ' high,] islng from a thickened root- 

 ptock. Leaves 3 to 5 incites broad : lo'jcs, broad, cut and 

 axillary and terminal: OaroUa white or vari 

 broad. Filaments hairy about half way up. 



**G/rolla appendaged between the sepals at base; stamens scarcely t 

 corolla. 



4. II. APPEXDICULATUM, Michx. Hairy Water' 

 Hairy; etem4eaves palmately 5-lobed, rounded, the lobes toothed and p< 



the lowest pinnately divided; c : ;mts rather loosely flowered; sepals lance-scbulate. 

 (Nemophila pau'culata, Sprcng.) 



Moist wools, not common. May. Stem 12 to IS inches hi^h. branched. Letva 

 on petioles 1 to 4 inches long, roundish in outline, 7 



in a stellate manner. Cihjx nearly y 2 inch long, appendages deflexed, 1 inch long. 

 Corolla blue, on long peduncles. 



2. PHACELIA, ftm 



Gr.phalclos, a fascicle, probably in allusion to the clustered or forked racemes. 



Calyx 5-parted. Corolla open bell-shaped, 5-cleft, the 



scale-like appendages in the tube sometimes obsolete. Ovary 

 with 2 linear adherent placeiitse, each 2-ovtiled. Capsule 

 ovoid, 2-valved, 4-seeded. — 1 fairy herbs, with alternate di- 

 vided leaves' and 'usually pale blue Jloiuers in forked scorpoid rjcernes- 

 or racemedike cymes. 



1. P. bipixxatiftda. Mlchx: Finnatifid, Phaeelia. 



iKem somewhat erect, branching, hairy; leaves pinnately divided, the d:-. 1 

 or leaflets ovate, acute, inersely lobed or pinn ngated 2 to 4 part- 



ed, many-flowered; corolla-lobes entire, twice as long a* the linear-acuminate calyx. 



Shaded 1 anks and damp woods, rare. M iy, .Tune. Ann. Stem 10 ; 

 higb, often much branched from near the base. Leaves 3 to 6inches long, including 

 iole, thin and smoothish, bright blue % to*(> inch h the grooTvl 



bordered with narrow pubescent margins. Raceme erect in fruit. 



2. P. PtJRSnn, Buckley. Fimbriate Phaeelia. 



Whole plant hairy; stem upright or ascending: Imoer leaves pinnately divided, 

 petiolate, the segments few and entire; upper deeply pinnatifid, sessile and partly 

 clasping, the lobes lanceolate, .acuta or pointed, entire; racems S to 10-flowered, siav 



