WATERLEAF FAMILY. Hydrophyliaceae. 
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white to bright blue, fading to purple, and purple filaments 
with whitish anthers. This grows in dry places and is 
common, often forming large clumps covered with flowers 
which are quite effective in color, though the plants are too 
straggling and hairy to be very attractive close by. P. 
ramosissima is similar but coarser, the flowers are larger, 
and the plant is exceedingly hairy, the calyxes being cov- 
ered with conspicuous, long, white hairs, and the whole 
plant unpleasant to touch. 
A charming little desert plant, four or 
pee five inches high, with one or more, pur- 
Freménti plish, branching stems, springing from a 
Purple pretty cluster of thickish, dull green root- 
Spring. leaves. The flowers are half an inch 
Southwest and 
Utah across, with sticky, hairy calyxes and buds 
and bright purple corollas, with bright 
yellow throats, from which the stamens do not protrude. 
These little flowers look very gay and pretty against the 
desert sand. 
: This is a delicate dds pretty plant, in 
Phacelia : : : : 7s 
Phacélia linearis SPite of its hairy foliage, from six inches to 
Purple a foot high, with a hairy stem, purplish 
Spring, summer and somewhat branching, and alternate 
Northwest and = jeaves, which are sometimes deeply cleft, 
Utah : 
usually have no leaf-stalks and are hairy 
and light yellowish-green in color. The flowers are pretty, 
grouped in rather long clusters, and are each about half an 
inch across, with a hairy calyx and a corolla delicately 
tinted with various shades of clear lilac and blue, shading 
to white in the center, with long narrow appendages in the 
throat between the stamens, which are long and conspicu- 
ous, giving a feathery appearance to the cluster. The 
anthers are dark purple and mature before the stigma, and 
the buds are pink and white. This grows on dry hillsides, 
often under sage-brush. 
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