WATERLEAF FAMILY. Hydrophyllaceae. 



white to bright blue, fading to purple, and purple filaments 

 with whitish anthers. This grows in dry places and is 

 common, often forming large clumps covered with flowers 

 which are quite effective in color, though the plants are too 

 straggling and hairy to be very attractive close by. P. 

 ramosissima is similar but coarser, the flowers are larger, 

 and the plant is exceedingly hairy, the calyxes being cov- 

 ered with conspicuous, long, white hairs, and the whole 

 plant unpleasant to touch. 



A charming little desert plant, four or 

 Phacelia ^ inches high, with one or more, pur- 



Phacelia , t_ , / 



Fremont'i phsh, branching stems, springing from a 



Purple pretty cluster of thickish, dull green root- 



Spring leaves. The flowers are half an inch 



Utah* 68 * and across with sticky, hairy calyxes and buds 

 and bright purple corollas, with bright 

 yellow throats, from which the stamens do not protrude. 

 These little flowers look very gay and pretty against the 

 desert sand. 



This is a delicate and pretty plant, in 

 Phaceha . *.,..*,. r 



Phacelia linebris s P lte of lts haii y foli agc, from six inches to i 

 Purple a foot high, with a hairy stem, purplish | 



Spring, summer an d somewhat branching, and alternate : 

 681 and leaves which are sometimes deeply cleft, 

 usually have no leaf-stalks and are hairy 

 and light yellowish -green in color. The flowers are pretty, 

 grouped in rather long clusters, and arc each about half an 

 inch across, with a hairy calyx and a corolla delicately 

 tinted with various shades of clear lilac and blue, shading 

 to white in the center, with long narrow appendages in the 

 throat between the stamens, which are long and conspicu- 

 ous, giving a feathery appearance to the cluster. The 

 anthers are dark purple and mature before the stigma, and 

 the buds are pink and white. This grows on dry hillsides, 

 often under sage-brush. 



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