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HYDROPHYLLACEAE. 



racemes short and close, scarcely surpassing the leaves; calyx-lobes 

 ovate, acutish; corolla white or bluish, scarcely surpassing the 

 calyx-lobes; free seeds oblong-oval, corrugated, the concealed ones 

 flattened, smooth. {EUisia chrysanthemifolia Benth.) 



Common in the chaparral belt and in the open foothills. March- 

 May. 



3. PHACELIA Juss. 



Annual rarely perennial mostly hirsute or hispid 

 herbs, or rarely suffrutescent, with entire or variously 

 lobed or dissected leaves, and often showy flowers in 

 scorpioid spikes or racemes. Calyx deeply 5-parted, 

 commonly more or less accrescent, unappendaged. Co- 

 rolla from nearly rotate to campanulate, tubular or 

 funnelform, deciduous, the tube commonly with internal 

 lamellate projections or appendages. Stamens inserted 

 on the base of the corolla-tube. Style 2-cleft. Capsule 

 1-celled, 2-valved, the thin septa-like placenta? adherent. 



Ovules 4, 2 on each placenta; corolla with 10 

 laminate appendages in pairs at the base 

 of the stamens. 

 Leaves, at least the upper, entire. 1. P. magellanica. 



Leaves all pinnatifid. 



Fruiting calyx not conspicuously en- 

 larged, herbaceous. 

 Perennial from a suffrutescent base. 2. P. ramosissima. 

 Annuals. 



Sepals hispid, 3. P. hispida. 



Sepals pilose. 



Corolla scales free at the tip. 4. P. distans. 

 Corolla scales adnate to the 



tip. 5. P. tanacetifolia. 



Fruiting calyx conspicuously enlarged, 



chartaceous. 6. P. ciliata. 



Ovules more than 4, several-many on each 

 placenta. 

 Appendages none. 



Corolla usually about 15 mm. broad. 7. P. viscida. 



Corolla usually about 25 mm. broad. 8. P. grandiflora. 



Appendages present. 



Appendages 5, small, truncate or emar- 

 ginate, one adnate to the inner 

 base of each filament. 

 Corolla-tube twice the length of the 



lobes. 9. P. whitlavia. 



Corolla rotate-campanulate, cleft to 

 near the middle. 

 Corolla about 20 mm. broad, 



cleft beyond the middle. 10. P. parryi. 



