An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian . Genus 4. WATER-LEAF FAMILY. 71 9. Phacelia fimbriata IMichx. Fringed orMountain Phacelia. Fig. 3498. Phacelia fimbriata Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. i: 134. 1803. Annual, sparingly pubescent; stems simple orbranched, ascending or diffuse, 6-2o long. Basaland lower leaves slender-petioled, ^ long, pin-nately divided into 5-9 orbicular obovate or oblongobtuse dentate or entire segment
An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian . Genus 4. WATER-LEAF FAMILY. 71 9. Phacelia fimbriata IMichx. Fringed orMountain Phacelia. Fig. 3498. Phacelia fimbriata Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. i: 134. 1803. Annual, sparingly pubescent; stems simple orbranched, ascending or diffuse, 6-2o long. Basaland lower leaves slender-petioled, ^ long, pin-nately divided into 5-9 orbicular obovate or oblongobtuse dentate or entire segments; upper leavessessile, their segments oblong or lanceolate, acute;clusters loose, 3-12-flowered; pedicels 4-is long;flowers 4-5 broad, white; calyx-segments linear tospatulate, obtuse; corolla rotate-campanulate, notappendaged within, its lobes strongly fimbriate; fila-ments pilose, about equalling the corolla; ovules 2on each placenta; capsule depressed-globose, 2 indiameter. In woods, mountains of Virginia to May-. 5. NAMA L. Sp. PI. 226. 1753. [Hydrolea L. Sp. PI. Ed. 2, 328. 1762.] Perennial herbs, some tropical species shrubby, with alternate entire leaves, sometimeswith spines in their axils, and blue cymose-clustered or racemose flowers. Calyx-segmentsdistinct to the base, ovate or lanceolate. Corolla rotate-campanulate, not appendaged within,5-cleft, the lobes imbricated in the bud. Stamens inserted on the base of the corolla; fila-ments filiform, dilated below; anthers sagittate. Ovary 2-celled (rarely 3-celled) ; ovulesnumerous in each cavity, on fleshy adherent placentae; styles 2, rarely 3, slender or filiform,distinct to the base; stigma capitellate. Capsule globose or ovoid, septicidally or irregularlydehiscent. About 15 species, natives of warm and tropical regoins of both the Old World and the the following, another occurs in the southern United States. Type species: Kamazeylanica L. Leaves lanceolate ; flowers mostly in axillary clust
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