4, Phacelia Juss. 
Perennial or anmal herbs with alternate and common) basal leaves, 
mostly pinnate. Flowers numerous in searpoid cymes, at Tiret more or less 
densg, elongating and unrolling to resemble a fiddle-neck. Calyx 5-lobed. 
Corolla campanulate or saucer-shaped, quickly deciduous, the tube bearing 
small scales within. Style bifid. Capsule l-chambered, 2<valved. 
0 Leaves pinnatifid, the lateral segments 5-7, these 
/again twice or thrice lobed, the ultimate segments 
4 ¢ 2-6 mm. wide, about twice as long |. Pe idahoensis 
oP a. scat il Rn 
o Leaves entire or if pinnatifid, the lateral segments 
4 one or two, much snaller than the middle one 
2 Corolla 9-10 mm. long, lavender Z, Pe linearis 
—— 
Corolla 4=6 mm. long, white or at most merely 
“ ¢ tinged with blue 
4 Leaves commonly 3-foliolate, the pubescence 
: / Sspreading-hispid; inflorescence tending to 
©“ be elongate and virgate 3, Bs heterophylla 
_ 
4 Leaves commonly entire, the pubescence more 
or less appressed hispid, with a finer denser 
1 7 pubescence which makes the plant hoary or 
~\ white; inflorescence tending to be a convex 
\ Cluster or a series of such Clusters, not 
\virgate 4. Pe leucophylla 
and a 
an tuft of bese 
basal leaves 
idahoensis Henderson. Perennials wit 
erect virgate stems 40-70 om. tall 
7-25 cme long, oblancaolate in outline, irresularl inna segments 
in 3-7 uneven pairs, confluent toward the Spex, mostly oblong,’ again irregu- 
larly incised, both surfaces thinly pubescent ith appressed hairs > eertine> 
1.5 CM e long, 
; long; sepals linear, : 
3-5-4 mme long, hispid; corolla blue, Campanulate, 6 mm. long, the lobes 
2 mme long, recurved; stamens 9 mm. long, the anthers yellow; ovary and cap= 
Sule hispid, the latter 5 mme long. A little known species, 
Infrequent in rather brushy meadows at 
low elevations, but locally 
abundant especially between Bovill and Santa 
now ——~ Clarkia, Epling and Offord 8] 
67, 8232; Santianne Cre, 950 m., Leiber 
1024; Bovill, Epling and Putnam : : 
; Emida, Christ 1512, 
amas Ses 
