280 Blue to Purple Flowers 



foliage, which is covered with a soft white down. The 

 long protruding stamens giv*e a feathery appearance to the 

 open bell-shaped blossoms, and as it grows at extremely high 

 altitudes, where flowers of any kind are rather rare and 

 large showy ones almost unknown, the Mountain Phacelia 

 is a real treasure-trove to the traveller. It has a very strong 

 disagreeable odour. 



Phacelia hcterophylla, or Blue Phacelia, has stout rough- 

 hairy stems, and lanceolate entire pointed silky white-hairy 

 leaves, pinnately and obliquely veined, the lower one taper- 

 ing into a stalk and usually having a pair of lateral leaflets. 

 The bluish-purple flowers grow in a short dense terminal 

 spike and smaller axillary spikes, and the filaments are 

 much exserted and sparingly bearded. 



FALSE FORGET-ME-NOT 



Lappula floribunda. Borage Family 



Stems: soft-hirsute, rather strict. Leaves: oblong to linear entire, 

 sessile. Flowers: in numerous racemes, nearly erect, densely flowered; 

 corolla funnel-form, five-lobed. Fruit: nutlets keeled, papillose-tubercu- 

 late on the back, the margins armed with a single row of flat subulate 

 prickles. 



There have probably been more arguments between travel- 

 lers over these flowers than over any other plant that grows 

 in the mountain regions. Ninety-nine persons out of every 

 hundred will gather the lovely sky-blue blossoms, delighting 

 in their beauty and inhaling with joy the delicate fragrance 

 of their perfume, under the firm conviction that it is the 

 true Forget-me-not they are picking ; whereas alas for 

 the shattering of a pretty romance ! it is only the sweet- 

 scented blossoms of the False Forget-me-not they are gath- 

 ering, which have as usual practised a successful deception 

 upon the unwary. 



