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PB ACTIO AL GUIDE TO GARDEN PLANTS phacelia 



flowers edged with white, and also with 

 a small white ' eye ' in the centre. 

 Culture (tc. as above. 



N. phacelioides. — A pretty species 

 occasionally seen. It grows about a foot 

 high, and has the leaves naore or less 

 pinnately cut, broadest in the middle and 

 narrowed into a short stalk at the base. 

 Flowers in summer, pale blue with a 

 white centre, aiid a much-developed calyx. 



Culture dc. as above. 



PHACELIA.— A large but not very 

 important genus from a garden point of 

 view. It contains about 60 species of 

 annual or perennial herbs usually 

 roughish, downy or hairy, sometimes 

 erect, tall and simple or branched, some- 

 times dwarf-spreading, very much 

 branched 'or tufted. Leaves pinnately 

 lobed or dissected, rarely undivided, 

 large-toothed or entire. Flowers blue, 

 violet or white, in terminal cymes, usu- 

 ally stalked, or reduced to a simple, one- 

 sided, scorpioid or crosier-hke raceme. 

 Calyx lobes linear-lance-shaped or 

 oblong, with naked sinuses. CoroUa bell- 

 shaped or somewhat rotate, rarely tubular 

 or funnel-shaped. Stamens 5, sometimes 

 protruding. Ovary 1 -celled ; style more 

 or less 2-cleft. Capsule with wrinkled or 

 tubercular seeds. 



Culture and Propagation. — Phacelias 

 flourish in ordinary garden soil. The 

 annual kinds may be raised from seeds 

 sown in AprU in the border where they 

 are to bloom, or earlier in March in gentle 

 heat, afterwards pricking out the seedlings 

 and hardening them off in cold frames 

 until about the end ot May when they 

 will, be fit for the open border. The 

 perennial kinds may be increased by 

 seed in the same way, or by dividing 

 the plants in autumn or spring. 



P. bipinnatifida. — A bushy annual, 

 1-2 ft. high, native of Texas, covered with 

 short, roughish hairs. Leaves alternate, 

 staLked, pinnately divided into irregularly 

 out, lobed and toothed segments. 

 Flowers profusely from July to Sep- 

 tember, bright blue when open, in crosier- 

 like clusters resembling the Heliotrope ; 

 white in bud. 



Culture dc. as above. Useful for 

 borders or beds by itself. Flowers suit- 

 able for bouquets. 



P. campanularia. — A pretty, much- 

 branched Californian annual 6-8 in. high. 



with roundish-oblong, crenate stalked 

 leaves. Flowers from June to Sep- 

 tember, broadly bell-shaped, deep blue, 

 with 5 white blotches on the inner 

 surface, one at the base of each sinus. 



Culture Sc. as above. Owing to its 

 dwarf tufted compact habit this species 

 makes an excellent edging for beds, 

 borders &c. Its flowers, which are borne 

 in racemes of 12-20, rival the Gentian in 

 colour, each one being about 1 in. across. 

 It succeeds well in rather dry and waiTa 

 situations. 



P. congesta. — A native of Texas 8-15 

 in. high, with erect flexuous stems, and 

 pinnately cut leaves 2-4 in. long ; lobes 

 1-4 on each side, unequal, the terminal 

 one being larger than the others and 3- 

 lobed. Flowers in June, blue, bell-shaped, 

 borne in rather loose corymbose racemes. 



Culture dc. as above. 



• P. grandiflora (Coamanthus grandi- 

 florus ; Eutoca speciosa). — A tufted Cali- 

 fornian species 3-5 ft. high, with broadly 

 ovate leaves IJ in. long, toothed, some- 

 what lobed at the base, wrinkled and 

 covered with roughish hairs like the 

 stems and calyx. Flowers in early 

 summer, pale violet-purple, I-I2 in. 

 across, in crosier-like racemes. 

 Culture dc. as above. 



P. divaricata {Eutoca divaricata). — 

 A Californian annual with slender trail- 

 ing, irregularly forked stems, and oblong 

 or ovate entire bluntish leaves 1-3 in. 

 long. Flowers in May, pale violet, rotate- 

 beU-shaped in many-flowered one-sided 

 racemes. The variety ivrangeliana (also 

 known as Eutoca muUiflora) is distin- 

 guished by its 3-lobed radical leaves and 

 its pale rosy -lilac flowers. 



Culture dc. as above. 



P. Parryi. — A clammy Californian 

 annual 6-12 in. high, with stalked ovate 

 or ovate-oblong leaves hairy on both sides. 

 Flowers in summer, dark violet-blue, 1 in. 

 across, nearly rotate, with rounded lobes, 

 and borne in many-flowered cymes. 



Culture dc. as above. 



P. sericea {Eutoca sericea). — A Eooky 

 Mountain perennial about 10 in. high, 

 with lower leaves somewhat twioe-pin- 

 nately cut, silky on both sides, the lower 

 lobes lance-shaped, mcised ; upper leaves 

 entire linear. Flowers in June, bluish- 

 purple, somewhat bell-shaped, in densely 

 flowered spike-like racemes. 



