444 THE WATER-LEAF FAMILY. 



LOOSE FLOWERED PHACELIA. 



Phacclia bipi^matifida. 



FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Water-leaf. Deep blue. See tit less. Alabama to North Carolina April-June. 



and westward. 



Flo7uers : gxo^'mg in loose, terminal, slightly scorpioid racemes. Calyx : \\\\\\ 

 five linear, hairy sepals. Corolla : campanulate ; flaring towards the summit and 

 having five rounded lobes, also small appendages in pairs between the stamens. 

 Statnens: ten on the corolla, exserted, and having purple hairy filaments. Anthers: 

 attached at the middle. Pistil : one with a two-branched style. Leaves : alternate, 

 with slender hairy petioles, pinnately divided or twice so into from three to seven 

 ovate or oblong segments acute at the apex, cleft and toothed ; bright green above; 

 lighter below; thin. Stem: one to two feet high, much branched, hairy. 



This species of Phaceiia shows us very little of the scorpion-like coiled 

 arrangement of the flower clusters which is so apparent in some western 

 members of the genus. Its little blossoms also, while suggesting to us those 

 of the water-leaf, have ten little appendages on the corolla which help 

 greatly in distinguishing the group from other flowers. Along shady slopes 

 and by streams it is found, and often towards the base its stem shows the 

 same purplish tone that darkens many of the flowers. 



P.fimbriata, fringed or mountain Phaceiia, grows through the woods from 

 Virginia to Alabama. That the lobes of its leaves are obtuse and the seg- 

 ments of the white corolla deeply fringed at their summits affords us a ready 

 means for its di-stinction. 



THE BORAGE FAMILY. 



Bo7'aginacecB. 



In our species., herbs or shrubs with mostly alternate., entire aiid pubes- 

 cent leaves^ and which bear perfect and regular flowers in one-sided spikes, 

 or racemes which have been coiled in the bud. 



As conspicuous members of the Borage family, and yet weeds which have 

 been introduced into this country, we encounter frequently throughout the 

 summer Echium vulgare, the beautiful blue-weed or viper's bug-loss, thriving 

 lustily in meadows and by the borders of sandy roads ; and the hound's- 

 tongue or gipsy-flower, cynoglossum officinale, which while glorifying many 

 waste places with its beauty becomes, through the pastures, most trouble- 

 some to the farmer. 



