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 toe 

 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 01 



five inches high, with one or more, pur- 

 Phacelia 1-11 . . f 



Fremonfi phsh, branching stems, springing from a 



Purple pretty cluster of thickish, dull green root- 



Spring leaves. The flowers are half an incl: 



acr SS ' with Sticky ' hairy cal y xes and buds 

 and bright purple corollas, with brighl 



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, ir 

 Phacelia 



Phactlia linearis s P lte of its haiI T foliage, from six inches t< 

 Purple a foot high, with a hairy stem, purplist 



Spring, summer a nd somewhat branching, and alternate 



leaves ' which are sometimes ^Pty cleft 

 usually have no leaf -stalks and are hairj 



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

 grouped in rather long clusters, and are each about half ar 

 inch across, with a hairy calyx and a corolla delicatelj 

 tinted with various shades of clear lilac and blue, shading 

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

 throat between the stamens, which are long and consf 

 ous, giving a feathery appearance to the cluster, 

 anthers are dark purple and mature before the stigma, 

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

 often under sage-brush. 



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