﻿BORAGE 
  FAMILY 
  203 
  

  

  HI. 
  PHACELIA 
  Juss. 
  

  

  Herbs, 
  mostly 
  annual. 
  Leaves 
  alternate, 
  sometimes 
  simple, 
  

   but 
  in 
  most 
  species 
  lobed 
  or 
  divided. 
  Flowers 
  in 
  one-sided 
  

   clusters, 
  often 
  showy. 
  Calyx 
  5-parted, 
  without 
  appendages. 
  

   Corolla 
  with 
  5 
  spreading 
  lobes. 
  Ovary 
  1-celled, 
  with 
  narrow 
  

   placentge. 
  

  

  1. 
  P. 
  bipinnatifida 
  Michx. 
  A 
  hairy 
  biennial. 
  Stem 
  upright, 
  1-2 
  ft. 
  

   high. 
  Leaves 
  on 
  long 
  petioles, 
  pinnately 
  divided 
  or 
  deeply 
  cut 
  into 
  

   3-7 
  toothed 
  or 
  cut 
  segments. 
  Racemes 
  long, 
  loose, 
  many-flowered. 
  

   Flowers 
  blue 
  or 
  violet, 
  the 
  spreading 
  or 
  recurved 
  pedicels 
  about 
  as 
  

   long 
  as 
  the 
  calyx. 
  Calyx 
  segments 
  linear. 
  Corolla 
  broadly 
  bell- 
  

   shaped, 
  its 
  appendages 
  in 
  pairs 
  between 
  the 
  stamens. 
  Rich 
  soil 
  in 
  

   thickets 
  and 
  along 
  streams. 
  

  

  2. 
  P. 
  tanacetifolia 
  Benth. 
  A 
  tall, 
  hairy 
  annual. 
  Leaves 
  pinnately 
  

   cut. 
  Spikes 
  long, 
  densely 
  flowered. 
  Flowers 
  showy, 
  blue. 
  Stamens 
  

   projecting. 
  Capsule 
  4-seeded. 
  Cultivated 
  from 
  California. 
  

  

  3. 
  P. 
  Whitlavia 
  Gray. 
  WHITLAVIA. 
  A 
  rather 
  coarse, 
  sticky 
  annual. 
  

   Leaves 
  broad, 
  ovate, 
  coarsely 
  toothed, 
  petioled. 
  Flower 
  clusters 
  a 
  

   loose 
  raceme. 
  Flowers 
  showy, 
  about 
  1 
  in. 
  long, 
  blue 
  or 
  sometimes 
  

   white. 
  Corolla 
  bell-shaped. 
  Stamens 
  and 
  style 
  projecting. 
  Capsule 
  

   many-seeded. 
  Cultivated 
  from 
  California. 
  

  

  4. 
  P. 
  linearis 
  Holz. 
  EUTOCA. 
  A 
  much-branched, 
  somewhat 
  rough 
  

   or 
  rough-hairy 
  plant, 
  3-12 
  in. 
  high. 
  Leaves 
  linear 
  or 
  lanceolate, 
  en- 
  

   tire 
  or 
  nearly 
  so. 
  Flowers 
  showy, 
  violet 
  or 
  white, 
  loosely 
  panicled. 
  

   Capsule 
  many-seeded. 
  Cultivated 
  from 
  California. 
  

  

  86. 
  BORAGINACE^. 
  BORAGE 
  FAMILY 
  

  

  Mostly 
  herbs, 
  with 
  sterns 
  and 
  foliage 
  roughened 
  with 
  stiff 
  

   hairs. 
  Leaves 
  alternate 
  and 
  entire, 
  not 
  aromatic. 
  Flowers 
  gen- 
  

   erally 
  in 
  a 
  coiled 
  inflorescence. 
  Calyx 
  5-parted. 
  Corolla 
  hypogy- 
  

   nous, 
  generally 
  5-lobed 
  and 
  regular. 
  Stamens 
  5, 
  inserted 
  on 
  the 
  

   corolla 
  tube. 
  Style 
  1 
  j 
  ovary 
  commonly 
  4-lobed, 
  ripening 
  into 
  

  

  4 
  1-seeded 
  nutlets. 
  

  

  I. 
  HELIOTROPIUM 
  L. 
  

  

  Herbs 
  or 
  low 
  shrubs. 
  Leaves 
  petioled. 
  Flowers 
  white, 
  

   blue, 
  or 
  lilac, 
  in 
  one-sided, 
  curved 
  spikes. 
  Calyx 
  5-parted. 
  

   Corolla 
  salver-shaped, 
  the 
  throat 
  open. 
  Anthers 
  almost 
  ses- 
  

   sile. 
  Style 
  short; 
  stigma 
  conical 
  or 
  knobbed. 
  Fruit 
  sepa- 
  

   rating 
  into 
  2 
  or 
  4 
  nutlets. 
  

  

  