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PENTANDRIA, MONOGYNIA. 
pedata. 
palmala. 
sagittata. 
|3 emargina- 
ta. 
behind. Anthers connivent, cohering at the 
membranaceous apex. Capsule superior, 
3-valved, 1-celled. — Nutt. 
§ 1. stemless species. 
1 . 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. 
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. 
3. V. leaves oblong, acute, cordate-sagittate, serrate, 
notched at the base ; flowers inverted.— PL 
A rare species, which I have only met with in the borders 
of cultivated fields close to Woodbury, Jersey. Perennial. 
April, May. 
Leaves similar to those of V. sagittata, almost tri- 
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- 
