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3. Phacelia bipinnatifida Michx. Loose- 
flowered Phacelia. Fig. 3492. 
tia bipinnatifida Michx, Fl. Bor. Am, 1: 134, pl. 16. 
1803. 
Biennial, hirsute-pubescent; stem eréct, usually 
much branched, glandular-viscid above, 1°-2° high. 
Leaves slender-petioled, 2’-5’ long, pinnately divided 
or deeply pinnatifid into 3-7 ovate or oblong acute 
or acutish, dentate or incised segments, or these 
again pinnatifid; flowers blue or violet, 6-8” broad, 
numerous, slender-pedicelled in loose racemes, the 
inflorescence only slightly scorpioid; pedicels 4’’-10” 
long, recurved in fruit; calyx-segments linear; ap- 
pendages of the rotate-campanulate corolla in pairs 
between the stamens, conspicuous, villous on the 
margins, corolla-lobes entire; filaments pilose, ex- 
serted; ovules 2 on each placenta; capsule globose. 
In moist thickets and along streams, Ohio to Illinois, , oS 
Missouri, Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee. Ascends 
to 4000 ft. in North Carolina. April-June. 
4. Phacelia Franklinii (R. Br.) A. Gray. 
Franklin’s Phacelia. Fig. 3493. 
Eutoca Franklinii R. Br. App. Frank. Journ. 51. pl. 27. 
1823. 
Phacelia Franklinii A. Gray, Man, Ed. 2, 329. 1856. 
Annual, villous-pubescent; stem erect, 6’-18' 
high, simple, or corymbosely branched at the sum- 
mit. Leaves 14’-3’ long, pinnately parted into 
7-15 linear or linear-oblong acute entire dentate 
or incised segments; flowers blue or nearly white, 
short-pedicelled in dense scorpioid racemes; calyx- 
segments linear-lanceolate, acute; longer than the 
tube of the rotate-campanulate corolla; append- 
ages of the corolla free at the apex: anthers 
scarcely exserted; filaments glabrous, or nearly 
so; styles united nearly to the summit; ovules 
numerous on each placenta; capsule ovoid, acute. 
Western Ontaric, Michigan and Minnesota to Brit- 
ish Columbia, Wyoming and Idaho. Summer. 
5. Phacelia dtbia (L.) Small. Small-flowered Phacelia. 
Polemonium dubium L. Sp. Pl. 163. 1753. 
Phacelia parviflora Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 140. 1814. 
Phacelia dubia Small, Bull. Torr. Club 21: 303. 1894. 
Fig. 
Annual, puberulent or glabrate, branched from the 
base, the branches very slender, erect or ascending, 
5’-12’ high. Lower and basal leaves petioled, 1’-2” 
long, pinnatifid or pinnately divided into 3-5 oblong 
obtuse entire or dentate segments, or rarely merely 
dentate, or even entire; upper leaves much smaller, 
sessile, less divided; flowers light blue or white, 
racemose, 4”-5” broad; racemes 5~-15-flowered, elon- 
gated in fruit; pedicels 3’-7” long; calyx-lobes 
oblong or oblong-lanceolate; corolla rotate-campanu- 
late, the appendages obsolete; filaments pubescent; 
anthers slightly exserted; ovules 4-8 on each pla- 
centa; capsule globose, 12” in diameter, 6-12-seeded ; 
fruiting pedicels ascending. — 
In moist soil, New York and Pennsylvania to Georgia, 
Missouri, Kansas and Texas. Ascends to 2000 ft. in 
Virginia. April-June. 
