WATERLEAF FAMILY. Hydrophylilaceae. 
There are only two kinds of Romanzoffia. 
This is a charming little perennial 
Romanzoffia . - 
Somers plant, which forms beautiful clumps of 
sitchénsis delicate foliage and flowers, suggesting 
White some sort of Saxifrage. The many, 
Summer 
smooth, slender, pale green stems, from 
four to nine inches tall, spring from slender, 
threadlike rootstocks, bearing tubers, and the leaves are 
mostly from the root, smooth, bright green, and prettily 
scalloped, with long leaf-stalks. The flowers are in loose 
clusters and are each half an inch or more long, with a 
white corolla, which is without appendages inside and is 
exceedingly beautiful in texture, with yellow stamens, 
unequally inserted, and a long, threadlike style, with a 
small stigma. These little plants grow in moist, shady 
spots among the rocks, as far north as Alaska and often 
reach very high altitudes, where it is a delight to find their 
pearly flowers and lovely foliage in some crevice in the 
cliffs watered by a glacier stream. These plants are found 
as far north as Alaska and were named in honor of Count 
Romanzoff, who sent the Kotzebue expedition to Alaska. 
There are several kinds of Emmenanthe, much like 
Phacelia, but the stamens not protruding, and the corolla 
bell-shaped, cream-color or yellow, becoming papery in 
withering and not falling off, hence the Greek name, 
meaning “lasting flower.”’ 
A low plant, with many, downy branches, 
Northwest, etc, 
E th 
Meh spreading almost flat on the ground, and 
liitea small, thickish leaves, light dull green, and 
Yellow slightly downy. The flowers are rather 
Spring, summer 
more than a quarter of an inch across 
Idaho, Nev., etc. q ’ 
with hairy calyxes, and bright yellow 
corollas, hairy outside, with ten little appendages inside, 
and grow in coiled clusters. The little flowers are gay and 
pretty and look bright and: cheerful on the desert sands 
where they live. This is found as far east as Oregon. 
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