WILD FLOWERS OF NEW YORK 23I 



terminal or paniclcd cymose clusters; corolla tubular-campanulate with 



five rounded lobes, the five stamens projecting out of the flower. 



In swamps, marshy meadows and along streams, Vermont and New 



York to Maryland. Flowering from the latter part of May until July. 



A local plant, as beautiful as it is rare. It has been found locally abundant 



at several places in the southern and western portions of the Catskills, in 



the Schoharie valley, southern Herkimer county and at Peterboro, Madison 



county. 



The Greek Valerian or Bluebell (Polemonium reptans 

 Linnaeus) occurs in woods from western New York, westward. It is 

 entirely smooth, the stems weak and reclining, only the tips erect; the 

 blue flowers one-half to two-thirds of an inch broad and the stamens not 

 projecting from the flower. 



Waterleaf Family 



Hydrophyllaceae 

 Virginia Waterleaf 



Hydrophyllum virginianum Linnaeus 



Plate 180 



Stems slender, smooth or but slightly pubescent, usually unbranched, 

 ascending or erect but not stiff, i to 3 feet long, from a perennial, scaly 

 rootstock. Lower and basal leaves, 6 to 10 inches long, pinnately divided 

 into five to seven oblong-ovate or ovate-lanceolate, pointed, toothed or 

 incised segments, 1 to 2 inches long; upper leaves similar but smaller, 

 shorter petioled and with fewer segments. Flowers white or violet (at 

 high altitudes nearly purple) in simple or forked, slender-stalked cymes, 

 the pedicels of the flowers hairy. Calyx deeply parted into five linear, 

 hairy, spreading segments. Corolla about one-third of an inch long, 

 bell-shaped, with five oblong, blunt lobes. Stamens five, projecting from 

 the flower. Fruit a capsule about one-sixth of an inch in diameter. 



In rich woods and thickets, Quebec to South Dakota, south to South 

 Carolina and Kansas. Flowering in June and July or in the north as late 

 as August. 



