WATERLEAF FAMILY. Hydropbyllaceae. 





A mountain plant, which in favorable 

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Phacelia sericea situations is exceedingly handsome anc 

 Purple conspicuous, about a foot tall, but some 



Summer times more, with downy, leafy stems, anc 



CV " handsome silky-downy foliage, cut int< 



many narrow divisions. The bell-shape< 

 flowers are three-eighths of an inch across, rich purple 

 with very long, purple filaments and yellow anthers, an< 

 are crowded in magnificent clusters, sometimes eight inche 

 long and very feathery. The corolla dries up and remain 

 on the fruit. This has a disagreeable smell and grows a 

 very high altitudes, where it is unusual to find such larg 

 showy flowers. In dry unfavorable situations it is ofte: 

 small and pale in color. 



. This has very handsome flowers, bu 



Phacll ia P&rryi the P lant is to straggling. The branching 

 Purple reddish stems are very hairy and rathe 



Spring sticky, from one to nearly two feet tal 



with dull green, hairy leaves, which ai 

 harsh but not disagreeable to touch, and the flowers ai 

 over three-quarters of an inch across, with a very hair 

 calyx and a bright purple corolla, with a cream-colore 

 spot, the shape of a horseshoe, at the base of each peta 

 The filaments are purple and hairy, with cream-colore 

 anthers and the style is white, tipped with purple. Th: 

 sometimes grows in such quantities as to give a ver 

 brilliant color effect and is found from Los Angeles to Sa 

 Diego. 



This is from eight inches to two fe( 



PhlcUia 'distant hi 2 h with hair y soft ' dul1 S reen leaves an 



Violet hairy stems, which are usually branchin 



Spring an( j spreading. The flowers are less tha 



Southwest half an inch across> with a very hair] 



sticky calyx, a violet corolla, varying in tint from du 



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