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Nat. ord. BORAGIN 
‘biccapgularis. 
"te 
longitudinali dors fi Fei ventrali seminiferis. 
Brown in Curt, F 
Ctl re | ’ . % : : Neat 
_ Nemophila phacelioides. Barton fl. amer. 61. Curtis's magaz. 2373. 
Biennis: caule succulento, procumbente, ramoso. Fol. alterna, pinnati- 
Jida; lobi obtusi, scabriusculi ciliis minutis ; inferiores distantes, inequa- 
liter lobulati. WPedunce. solitarii, teretes, uniflori, folio longiores, (Bartonio 
axillares) Nobis oppositifolii. Cal. persistens, inferior, 10-partitus ; seg- 
mentis ovatis, acutis, ciliatis, alternis majoribus erectis, ceteris reflexis. 
Cor. campanulata ; limbo 5-fido; laciniis obtusis emarginatis. Stam. corolld 
plurimim breviora: fil. nuda, corolle tubulo brevi inserta; auth. lunate. 
Necr. scrobiculi 10 purpurascentes, margine pubescentes, os tubi circumse- 
pientes. Stig. 2-fidum. Caps. unilocularis; recept. dua cornosa postice a 
medio in longum, solutis luteribus, affixa: sem. duo in receptaculo singulo. 
(Ex angl. vers.) . : i, om 
b 
Hydrophyllece differ from Boraginee by a copious car- 
tilaginous albumen, as well as by an opposite or else deeply 
lobed foliage: distinctions announcing a further general 
diversity of habit between the members of the two orders, 
very properly separated by Mr. Brown in his Prodromus. 
Nemopuita owes the name and origin, as a distinct 
genus, to Dr. Barton; its accurate definition of the limits 
- to Mr. Brown. 
The essential properties of a well-defined genus seem 
to us to be, that they should express the peculiar characters 
of a convenient number of naturally (evidently) allied 
species, and the art of instituting the same to consist in 
the sagacious selection of such insulated species as will 
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