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Tap. 6842. 
PHACELIA PARRYI. 
Native of California. 
Nat. Ord. Hypropuytiacem.—Tribe PHACELIER. 
Genus Pracetta, Juss.; (Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p- 827.) 
Puacetia (Whitlavia) Parryi; sparse hispida et glanduloso-pilosa, foliis ovatis 
v. ovato-oblongis grosse inzequaliter crenato-dentatis serratisve, racemis multi- 
floris foliis pluries longioribus, calycis lobis anguste linearibus obtusis, corolle 
late breviter campanulate tubo calyce breviore, squamis obcordatis, filamentis 
pilosis, placentis multiovulatis. 
Puacetra Parryi, Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. (Emory) Rep. p. 144; A. Gray 
in Proc. Amer. Acad, Arts and Se. vol, x. (1874), ser. 2, p. 322, and Synopt. 
£1, N. Am. vol. ii. part 1, p. 164. 
A very near ally of P. campanularia, A. Gray (figured at 
Plate 6735 of this work), differing in the narrower leaves 
and much shorter tube of the corolla, as also in the shape 
of the scales at the base of the corolla-tube within. The 
flower is in fact nearly flat, or rotate. It is a native of 
almost the same county as its ally, namely the St. Diego 
and St. Bernardino counties of Southern California, where 
it was discovered by Dr. Parry. The plant here figured 
was raised from seeds sent by Prof. Asa Gray, which flowered 
in June last. 
Desor. A viscid annual, clothed with spreading simple 
and gland-tipped hairs. Stem one to two feet long, 
branched, spreading and ascending, sparingly leafy. Leaves 
one to four inches long, petioled, ovate or ovate-oblong, 
acute, hairy on both surfaces; base acute or rounded ; 
margin coarsely unequally toothed; petiole two to four 
inches long. lowers in terminal many-flowered cymes 
much exceeding the leaves; pedicels a half to one inch long, 
lengthening in fruit. Calye of five very narrow obtuse 
glandular-hairy sepals much longer than the corolla-tube, 
spreading and recurved. Corolla dark violet blue, an inch 
in diameter, almost rotate, the tube being very short, and 
oct. Ist, 1885, 
