Hydrophyllaceae. Phacelie Family. 
Herbs with usually alternate and pinnate but sometimes simple and 
basal leaves; stipules wanting. Flowers perfect, regular, borne in scerpoid 
cymes, these sometimes capitate,less often solitary in the axils or on naked 
scapes. Sepals 5, sometimes with small appendages in the sinuses. Corolla 
deeply 5-lobed, mostly campanulate, often with appendages inside. Stamens 
5, alternate with the corolla lobes, the filaments adnate to the corolla-tube. 
Ovary superior, l- or 2=chambered, the placentae parietal; styles 2; more or 
less united. Fruit a capsule. ’ 
O Small herbs with only basal leaves; flowers solitary 
4 on scapes 1-4 cm. tall |. Hesperochiron 
> Herbs,with alternate leaves; flowers mostly in 
4 ia s e s , 
A scdrpoid cymes; in one species solitary in the axils 
2, Low creeping herb with flowers solitary in the axils; 
G calyx with an appendage in each sinus 2. Nemophila 
A 
p, Erect herbs; flowers numerous in scerpoid or 
(, capitate cymes . 
4. Cymes ddnse, globose; leaves 3-5 3. Hydrophyllum 
4 Cymes elongating like a fiddle-neck; 
'  @ leaves numerous 4 Phacelia 
|. Hesperochiron S. Wats. 
Small herbs with simple leaves in a basal rosette. Flowers solitary on 
naked scapes arising from tho rosette. Calyx-lobes 5. Corolla saucer-shaped, i 
deeply 5-lobed. Filaments very hairy. Ovary l-chambered. Style bifid at 
the apex. 
1. He pumilus (Dougl.) Porter. Low herbs with slender rootstocks 
5 leaves few, @11-besealy the blades 2-5 om. 
long, 7-15 mm. wide, tongue-shaped, oblong or ovate, obtuse, narrowed to a 
Slender petiole 1-2 om. long, entire, glabrous or nearly so; scapes slender, 
erect, 2-5 cm. long, glabrous or thinly villous; calyx-lobes lanceolate, 6=7 mn. 
long; corolla lavender, 8-10 mm. long, its Jobes broadly ovate, obtuse, very 
hairy at the base; filaments 6 mn. long; capsule not seen. 
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Rare witHin. our limits and hardly proper to them, 3 mi, ne, of 
Worley, Ste John 4242, 8023; Moscow, Gail; Fernan Lake, Ghrist 1005, 
