WATERLEAF FAMILY. Hydrophyllaceae. 



WATERLEAF FAMILY. Hydrophyllaceae. 



Herbs or shrubs, mostly natives of western Nort 

 America; often hairy; with no stipules; the leaves main] 

 alternate or from the root ; the flowers chiefly blue or whit 

 often in coiled clusters; the calyx with five united sepal 

 the corolla with five united petals; the stamens five, on tl 

 base of the corolla and alternate with its lobes, with threat 

 like filaments and usually with swinging anthers; tl 

 ovary superior, the styles two or two-cleft; the fruit 

 capsule, containing few or many seeds. The leaves we: 

 formerly supposed to have water-cavities in them, hem 

 the misleading name. Some of this family resemble son 

 of the Borages, but the stamens are long, the styles a: 

 two, at least above, and the ovary has not the four coi 

 spicuous lobes of the latter family. 



There are many kinds of Phacelia, hairy plants, with i 

 appendages between the sepals; resembling Hydrophyllur 

 except that the petals overlap in the bud, instead of beii 

 rolled up, and the seeds are different. The name is fro 

 the Greek, meaning "cluster." 



This has pretty and rather unusu 

 Phacelia , , . , ,. . , 



Phacelia longipes lookm g foliage, for the leaves are a pec 

 Purple liar shade of bluish-green, with purplii 



Spring ^ margins. They are somewhat stick 



California soft and ve j vetyj an( j although hairy a 



not disagreeable to touch. The hairy, purplish stems grc 

 from a few inches to a foot tall and the pretty flowers a 

 lilac or purple, with yellow anthers, and measure thrc 

 quarters of an inch across. This grows on sunny, sane 

 mountain slopes. 



A low plant, partly creeping, with wea 

 PhacllTa glecho- brittle, sticky stems and soft, slight 

 maefdlia thickish, very dull yellowish-green leave 



Lilac, white sticky and Often dingy with dust. Tl 



Summer flowers are usually violet, but sometim 



Ariz., Utah, Cal. , 



pure white, about three-eighths ot an 11 



across, with yellow stamens, and are rather pretty, 

 found this little plant growing under a huge red rock in 

 Grand Canyon, on apparently perfectly dry, bare 

 It has an aromatic and slightly unpleasant smell am 

 rare. 



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