WATERLEAF FAMILY. Hydrophyllaceae. 



This just misses being a very pretty 

 Abpine Phacelia . J . , ^ * 



Phacelia alplna P lant > for the leaves are attractive, but the 

 Lilac flowers are too small and too dull in color 



Summer for the general effect to be good. The 



Utah, Nev., etc. stcms are a bout ten inches tall, purplish 

 and downy, and the leaves are dull green and rather 

 downy, with conspicuous veins. The buds are hairy and 

 the flowers are lilac and crowded in coiled clusters, to 

 which the long stamens give a very feathery appearance. 

 This is found in the mountains, as far east as Montana 

 and Colorado, and reaches an altitude of over twelve 

 thousand feet. 



This is a fine plant, from six to eighteen 

 Wild Heliotrope . ' , 



Phacelia crenuldta mches tall Wlth P ur plish stems and hand- 

 Lilac some coarse foliage, all rough, hairy, and 

 Spring very sticky. The flowers are lilac, with 

 Arizona purple stamens and pistil, and the general 

 effect is that of a large coarse Heliotrope. The flowers have 

 a pleasant scent, but the foliage has a strong and disagree- 

 able smell, and it grows on the plateau in the Grand Canyon. 



A little desert plant, not very pretty, 

 Arizona Phacelia . , 11- n , n r ' 



Phacelia with severa l hairy flower-stalks, from 



Arizonica three to six inches tall, springing from a 



White, mauve rosette of soft thickish leaves, slightly 

 hairy, dull green in color, and something 

 the shape of the leaves of P. Fremontii, 

 but the lobes not nearly so small. The flowers are in 

 tightly coiled clusters; the corolla a little more than a 

 quarter of an inch across, dull white, with a pinkish line on 

 each lobe and lilac anthers, the general effect being mauve. 

 There are a good many kinds of Nemophila, natives of 

 North America, mostly California!!, slender, fragile herbs, 

 with alternate or opposite leaves, more or less d vided, and 

 usually large, single flowers, with rather long flower- 

 stalks. The calyx has an appendage, resembling an extra 

 little sepal, between. each of the five sepals, which makes 

 these plants easy to recognize, and the corolla is wheel- 

 shaped or bell-shaped, usually with ten, small appendages 

 within, at the base, and the petals are rolled up in the bud; 

 the stamens are short; the styles partly united. The name 

 is from the Greek, meaning "grove lover," because these 

 plants like the shade. 



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