120 PENTANDRIA, MONOGYNIA. 



behind. Anthers connivent, cohering at the 

 membranaceous apex. Capsule superior, 

 3-valved, 1 -celled. — Nutt. 



§ 1. stemless species. 



pedata. l . V. leaves pedate, 7-parted ; segments linear-lan- 

 ceolate, entire. 

 V. digitata, Pursh. 



A very fine species. Flowers large, indigo-blue. Along 

 the edges of open woods, and the borders of cultivated fields, 

 in Jersey; common. Flowers, in this, as most of the subsequent 

 species of blue and purple, become nearly white in drying 

 for the herbarium. Perennial. May. 



paimata. 2. V. leaves cordate, palmate, 5-lobed, toothed, and 

 undivided. — Sp. PL 

 V. heterophylla. 



A polymorphous species, as respects its leaves: they are often 

 quite cordate, and from this shape are variously dissected, so 

 as, at times, to be quite palmate. Corolla blue. In rich woods, 

 every where very common. Perennial. May, June. 



sagittata. 3. V. leaves oblong, acute, cordate-sagittate, serrate, 

 notched at the base ; flowers inverted. — Sp. PL 



A rare species, which I have only met with in the borders 

 of cultivated fields close to Woodbury, Jersey. Perennial. 

 April, May. 



(Z emargina- Leaves similar to those of V. sagittata, almost tri- 

 ta ' angularly cordate, or hastate, lacerately toothed 



near the base, and decurrent in a narrow margin 

 on the petiole, always smooth beneath, often pu- 

 bescent above ; scape longer than the leaf; petals 

 obovate, all emarginate or bi-dentate, the lowest 

 cucullate, the three lower, and sometimes the two 

 upper, pubescent ; segments of the calix glabrous, 

 lanceolate, acute ; stigma rostrate, depressed ho- 



