Hydrophyllum. 



HYDROPHYLLACEiE. 



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Group 10. Ovary free (superior), either compound or the carpels distinct, with 

 several or numerous ( rarely solitary ) ovules in each cell. Fruit capsular, 

 follicular or baccate. Corolla regular ; the stamens inserted upon its tube, as 

 many as its lobes and alternate with them. 



Order LXXIII. HYDROPHYLLACEiE. R. Br. The Wate rleaf Tribe. 



Calyx 5-cleft ; the sinuses often with appendages, persistent. Corolla regular, 

 usually furnished with scales or honey-bearing grooves on the inside of each 

 lobe. Stamens 5, inserted into the base of the corolla. Ovary with 2 parietal 

 placenta?, sometimes separating from the walls : styles united into one. Fruit 

 a capsule. Seeds few ; the testa crustaceous. Embryo small, in cartilaginous 

 albumen. — Herbs, often hairy, with alternate and lobed or pinnatifid leaves. 

 Flowers in cymose clusters, or in one-sided racemes. 



1. HYDROPHYLLUM. Tourn. ; Endl. gen. 4827. water-leaf. 



[ From the Greek, hydor, water, and phyUon, a leaf; but the allusion is not evident.] 



Calyx 5-parted ; the sinuses naked, or with small reflexed appendages. Corolla somewhat 

 campanulate, 5-cleft, with five longitudinal linear adnate scales inside, alternating with the 

 lobes. Stamens exserted. Ovary with two large fleshy placentas which are attached to 

 the walls by a narrow dorsal line, each bearing two ovules on the face : style filiform : 

 Btigma 2-cleft. Capsule globose, 2-valved, 4-seeded ; three of the seeds usually abortive : 

 placenta at length free, and resembling an interior pericarp. — Leaves broad, pinnately or 

 palmately lobed. Racemes corymbose, scorpioid and dichotomous. 



* Sinuses of the calyx without appendages. 



1. Hydrophyllum Virginicum, Linn. Virginian Waterleaf 



Stem smoothish ; leaves pinnately divided, the lobes oval-lanceolate, deeply serrate; 

 peduncles longer than the petioles of the upper leaves ; calyx-segments hairy-ciliate. — Linn, 

 sp. 1. p. 146 ; Lam. ill. t. 97. /. 1 ; Michx. fl. I. p. 134 ; Pursh, fl. 1. p. 134 ; Ell. sk. 1. 

 p. 232 ; Torr. fl. 1. p. 219 ; Bigel. fl. Bost. p. 73 ; Bot. reg. t. 331 ; Beck, hot. p. 255 ; 

 Turp. ail. diet. sc. nat. 4. t. 46 ; Darlingt. fl. Cest. p. 127 ; Hook. fl. Bor.-Am. 2. p. 78. 



Perennial. Rhizoma creeping. Stems 12-18 inches high, growing in clusters, often 

 branched at the base. Leaves pinnately cut into 5-7 segments ; petioles of the lower ones 



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