MOUNTAIN FLOWERS 233 



LARGE GENTIAN 



Gentiana ajffinis. Gentian Family 



Stems: clustered from deep roots. Leaves: oblong, obtuse. Flowers: 

 clustered in the axils of the upper leaves ; calyx-lobes linear, unequal ; 

 corolla long, narrowly funnel-form, its lobes ovate, entire, acute or mucro- 

 nate, spreading. 



In this tall handsome Gentian there is a very beautiful con- 

 trast between the rich green foliage and the azure-blue flowers. 

 These flowers grow in dense clusters among the leaves on the 

 top of the stems ; each one has a large, gray, greenish-blue 

 corolla, divided into five spreading lobes, which are of a won- 

 derful cerulean hue inside, marked and spotted with white. The 

 tips of these lobes are very pointed, and sometimes the green 

 calyx-lobes equal them in length, showing between their divi- 

 sions, while at other times they are quite minute. 



G. Forwoodii, or Blue Gentian, resembles the preceding spe- 

 cies, but has a decidedly smaller corolla, with shorter, rounder 

 lobes, and, most remarkable of all, the green calyx has no 

 vestige of any lobes or teeth whatsoever, but is perfectly bell- 

 shaped. The lobes of the corolla are entirely blue and have 

 no white spots or marks on them. It is a handsome massive 

 plant. 



MOUNTAIN PHACELIA 



Phacelia sericea. Water-leaf Family 



Stems: simple, virgate, canescent, leafy to the top. Leaves: pinnately 

 parted into numerous linear and again pinnatifid divisions, silky-canes- 

 cent. Flowers: in short spikes, crowded in a naked spike-like thyrsus; 

 calyx-lobes linear ; corolla very open-campanulate, cleft to the middle ; 

 stamens long exserted. 



A glorious plant, with rich purple-blue flowers clustered in 

 huge long spike-like panicles, and handsome deeply cleft foliage, 

 which is covered with a soft white down. The long protruding 

 stamens give a feathery appearance to the open bell-shaped 



