BORAGE FAMILY 203 
Ill. PHACELIA Juss. 
Herbs, mostly annual. Leaves alternate, sometimes simple, 
but in most species lobed or divided. Flowers in one-sided 
clusters, often showy. Calyx 5-parted, without appendages. 
Corolla with 5 spreading lobes. Ovary 1-celled, with narrow 
placente. 
1. P. bipinnatifida Michx. A hairy biennial. Stem upright, 1-2 ft. 
high, Leaves on long petioles, pinnately divided or deeply eut into 
3-7 toothed or cut segments. Racemes long, loose, many-flowered, 
Flowers blue or violet, the spreading or recurved pedicels about as 
long as the calyx. Calyx segments linear. Corolla broadly bell- 
shaped, its appendages in pairs between the stamens. Rich soil in 
thickets and along streams. 
2. P. tanacetifolia Benth. A tall, hairy anuual. Leaves pinnately 
cut. Spikes long, densely flowered. Flowers showy, blue. Stamens 
projecting. Capsule 4-seeded. Cultivated from California. 
3. P. Whitlavia Gray. Wuirtavia. A rather coarse, sticky annual. 
Leaves broad, ovate, coarsely toothed, petioled. Flower clusters a 
loose raceme. Flowers showy, about 1 in. long, blue or sometimes 
white. Corolla bell-shaped. Stamens and style projecting. Capsule 
many-seeded. Cultivated from California. 
4. P. linearis Holz. Evroca. A much-branched, somewhat rough 
or rough-hairy plant, 3-12 in. high. Leaves linear or lanceolate, en- 
tire or nearly so. Flowers showy, violet or white, loosely panicled. 
Capsule many-seeded. Cultivated from California. 
86. BORAGINACEZ. BoraGcr Famiry 
Mostly herbs, with stems and foliage roughened with stiff 
hairs. Leaves alternate and entire, not aromatic. Flowers gen- 
erally in a coiled inflorescence. Calyx 5-parted. Corolla hypogy- 
nous, generally 5-lobed and regular. Stamens 5, inserted on the 
corolla tube. Style 1; ovary commonly flobed, ripening into 
4 1-seeded nutlets. 
I. HELIOTROPIUM L. 
Herbs or low shrubs. Leaves petioled. Flowers white, 
blue, or lilac, in one-sided, curved spikes. Calyx 5-parted. 
Corolla salver-shaped, the throat open. Anthers almost ses- 
sile. Style short; stigma conical or knobbed. Fruit sepa- 
rating into 2 or 4 nutlets. 
