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several times largest; 5 larger ones erect, or
spreading, their margins recurved; 5 smaller, flat,
reflexed. Corolla campanulate, densely bearded at
the mouth, limb 5-cleft, laciniBe oblong, obtuse, slightly
emarginate, veined with numerous branching veins.
Nectary 10 small purple hollows, surrounding the
mouth of the tube. Stamens 5, scarcely half the
length of the corolla; filaments smooth, inserted in the
base of the tube; anthers incumbent, sagittate and
straight before bursting; afterwards burst on each
side, and becoming lunular; pollen white. Germen
densely hairy. Style erect, very hairy at the base, and
smooth upwards. Stigma bifid, ending in two blunt
simple points.
A very beautiful hardy biennial ? or, perhaps, annual.^
native of North America, and lately introduced by
John Walker, Esq. of Southgate, and kindly communicated
by him to Mr. Colvill, at whose Nursery
our drawing was taken. It belongs to the Natural
Order H y d ro p h y lle j; of Mr. Brown, to which, also,
belongs Hydrophyllum, Phacelia, and Ellisia, and
a new polyspermous genus, described by Mr. Brown
under the name of Eutoca Franklinii; the above
genera have been usually referred to Boragineee;
an order in which all the true genera belonging
to it, bear 4 naked seeds; those above have been
referred to it merely on account of the same number
of seeds, though contained in a capsule; but, as
Mr. Brown observes, Eutoca being polyspermous,
cannot certainly belong to Boragineee, but is a
true congener of Hydrophyllece; it, therefore, establishes
the order, though an anomaly in it.
n o iL K 4 i i i corolla, showing the 2 nectariferous
pores, and its bearded base. 3. Stamen inserted in the base of the corolla
anther. 4. The same just as the flower opensi
when the anthers arc straight. 5. Germen, Style, and Stigma.
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