PVLACELIA BIPINN IATIFIDA. 
BIPIN NATE PHACIOUIA. 
NATURAL ORDER, HYDROPHYLLACE.®. 
fichaux.—A feet or more high from a slender biennial root, 
PHACELIA BIFTS 
erect, 
NATIPIDA, 
lately branched, 
ioopubesceat ami above mostly viscku and glandular: 
iibin, pinnately three tn seven-civided; the ‘livisions 
ider-petled. cree 
: > the lower 
sely ond ireepularly incised or pinaatifis 
feonfluent: racemcs loose, seven tu twenty flowered : 
“pede! spre fruii recurved: valyx- ies linear, loose, longer than the 
globular capsule : Comite rotste-campanulate, viclet-blue, over Ye if on iach in diameter, 
with rather short rounded Jobes and very conspicuous internal eae stamens 
(bearded) and sty;!s usually more or less exserted, . (Gray's Sysoptica’ as of Meorh 
America. See also Gray’s Manwal of the Botany of the Northern Cniics cag Chey 
man’s Flora of the Southern Caled Sieter; and Nood’s Chage £00k of Bottny.5 
IN Dr.. Gray’s recent “Syuoptical Flora of North 
America,” fom which we have taken our botanical 
erheleits are described; and yet less than 
oe 
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a huvdred years age not one was known, The first know!- 
edge of them seems. te have been gained from Commerson's 
celebrated voyage, when one which we now know as Péucedia 
cwvemmata was found in the Straits of Magellan. lewas at tha: 
time thought to be a Helictrope, and eee Vahl a Danish 
botanist, and one of the most celebrated of that time, named i 
fletiotraprum pianatum, under which it is to be searchec: for i 
the earier writings of Willdenow and of some others. But 
| te well-known botanist of the end of the last centu ry, 
“Genera Plantarum” published in 1789, made a new 
i, seeefia, which name’ it still bears. That particular 
Huwers erowing in dense bunches or fascicies,. 
ed ihe “name, fhaketas being Greek for a 
4 species is very remarkable 
fens 
