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PHACEL(A | HYDROPHYLLACE® 469 
base: spikes slender, often solitary, short and rather loosely flowered: calyx 
of 4 spatulate and 1 larger obovate sepals: corolla obovate 2 lines long, 
whitish: stamens and style included; seeds small, alveolate. In shady 
places along streams, southern Oregon to California. 
+ + + Leaves from simple and pinnately dentate or lobed to pin- 
nately compound: flowers crowded in the scorpioid spikes. 
P. ramosissima Dougl. Hook. Fl. ii, 80. Stems rather stout and 
branching, 1-3 feet long, spreading or ascending from a perennial root, 
leaves pubescent, 5-9-lobed or divided into oblong or narrower pinnatifid 
or incised divisions: inflorescence hispid; spikes glomerate, short and 
dense, but little elorgated in age: flowers subsessile and in fruit ascending 
on the rachis: calyx-lobes entire, linear-spatulate to obovate: corolla fun- 
nelform, but little exceeding the calyx; the appendages within witha 
truncate free apex: filaments exserted, glabrous: capsule ovate or short- 
ovoid, much shorter than the calyx; seeds oblong, rounded on the back. 
On rocky hills and banks, eastern Oregon and Washington to California. 
P. ciliata Benth. Linn. Trans. xvii, 280. More or less pubescent: 
stem erect or ascending, scabrous, 3-12 inches high, from an annual root: 
leaves 1-3 inches long, pinnately parted or the lower divided and the upper 
merely cleft; the oblong divisions or lobes pinnatifid-incised : spikes rather 
short and in fruit rather loose: pedicels short or hardly any ascending: 
calyx-lobes from lanceolate to ovate, accrescent and becoming venose-reti- 
culated in age, then sparingly ciliate with short rigid bristles, 4-5 lines long: 
corolla but little surpassing the calyx, its appendages short and broad, 
near the base of the tube: filaments not exceeding the corolla: capsule ovate, 
mucronate, half as long as the fruiting calyx: seedsoval smoothish. Eas- 
tern Oregon to California. 
§ Evutroca Gray Man. ed. 2, 329. Appendages of the mostly 
campanulate corolla in the form of 10 vertical salient lamelle. 
Capsule ovate or oblong. Ovules and seeds 6-50 on each placenta; ° 
the testa areolate-reticulated or favose-pitted, but not transverse- 
ly rugose.. 
P. Belanderi Gray Proc. Am. Acad. x, 322. Hispid with slender 
bristles, also viscid-pubescent, especially above : stems several, from a peren- 
nial root, stout, erect or ascending, 1-2 feet high, freely branching: radical 
and lower catiline leaves lyrate, and oblong in outline, with 1 or 2 pairs of 
small and incised lateral divisions: the terminal division and upper leaves 
ovate or oval, coarsely incised or lobed, truncate or subcordate at base: 
calyx-lobes hispid, at length spatulate, 3 or in fruit 4 lines long: corolla 
nearly rotate when expanded, 8-12 lines in diameter, white or blue; its 
appendages semi-ovate, almost as broad as long, distinctly connected at 
base in front of the adnate and sparingly bearded filaments: stamens 
about equalling the corolla; anthers oblong: style cleft nearly to the mid- 
dle: capsule broadly ovate, acute, shorter than the calyx: seeds about 50 
on each dilated placenta. Southern Oregon to California, near the coast. 
i’. procera Gray Proc. Am. Acad. x, 323. Stems several from a 
perennia! root, erect, 3-7 feet high, minutely soft-pubescent; the summit 
of the simple stems glandular but not hispid: leaves green and membran- 
aceous, 2-5 inches long, ovate-lanceolate and ovate, acute, mostly laciniate- 
pinnatifid or cleft: the lobes 2 to 4 pairs and acute: spikes of the glom- 
erate or bifid cyme somewhat lengthened in age: calyx-lobes oblong-lan- 
ceolate, minutely hispid: corolla ochroleucous, the semi-cordate oblique 
appendages united over the base of the sparsely bearded filament: stamens 
exserted : anthers oblong, style 2 cleft above the middle: capsule globular- 
