WATERLEAF FAMILY. Hydrophyliaceae. 
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A mountain plant, which in favorable 
Phacelia : P : } 
Phactlia sericea ‘Situations is exceedingly handsome and 
Purple conspicuous, about a foot tall, but some- 
Summer times more, with downy, leafy stems, and 
Northwest, Nev., 
Utah handsome, silky-downy foliage, cut into 
many narrow divisions. The bell-shaped 
flowers are three-eighths of an inch across, rich purple, 
with very long, purple filaments and yellow anthers, and 
are crowded in magnificent clusters, sometimes eight inches 
- long and very feathery. The corolla dries up and remains 
on the fruit. This has a disagreeable smell and grows at 
very high altitudes, where it is unusual to find such large 
showy flowers. In dry unfavorable situations it is often 
small and pale in color. 
This has very handsome flowers, but 
Phaceli A : 5 
noni Pérryi the plant is too straggling. The branching, 
Purple reddish stems are very hairy and rather 
Spring sticky, from one to nearly two feet tall, 
California 
with dull green, hairy leaves, which are 
harsh but not disagreeable to touch, and the flowers are 
over three-quarters of an inch across, with a very hairy 
calyx and a bright purple corolla, with a cream-colored 
spot, the shape of a horseshoe, at the base of each petal. 
The filaments are purple and hairy, with cream-colored 
anthers and the style is white, tipped with purple. This 
sometimes grows in such quantities as to give a very 
brilliant color effect and is found from Los Angeles to San 
Diego. 
This is from eight inches to two feet 
Vervenia : : z 
Phacelia distans Digh, with hairy, soft, dull green leaves and 
Violet hairy stems, which are usually branching 
Spring and spreading. The flowers are less than 
Southwest 
half an inch across, with a very hairy, 
sticky calyx, a violet corolla, varying in tint from dull 
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