WATERLEAF FAMILY. Hydrophyllaceae. 
Alpine Phacelia This just misses being a very pretty 
Phacélia alpina Plant, for the leaves are attractive, but the 
Lilac flowers are too small and too dull in color 
Summer for the general effect to be good. The 
Utah, Nev., etc. <toms are about ten inches tall, purplish 
and downy, and the leaves are dull green and rather 
downy, with conspicuous veins. The buds are hairy and 
the flowers are lilac and crowded in coiled clusters, to 
which the long stamens give a very feathery appearance. 
This is found in the mountains, as far east as Montana 
and Colorado, and reaches an altitude of over twelve 
thousand feet. 
This is a fine plant, from six to eighteen 
Wild Heliot ¥ : ‘ 
; errs inches tall, with purplish stems and hand- 
Phacélia crenuldta 
Lilac some coarse foliage, all rough, hairy, and 
Spring very sticky. The flowers are lilac, with 
_ Arizona 
purple stamens and pistil, and the general 
effect is that of alarge coarse Heliotrope. The flowers have 
a pleasant scent, but the foliage has a strong and disagree- 
able smell, and it grows on the plateau in the Grand Canyon. 
Gee oe A little desert plant, not very pretty, 
SEs with several hairy flower-stalks, from 
Arizonica three to six inches tall, springing from a 
White, mauve = rosette of soft thickish leaves, slightly 
Spring hairy, dull green in color, and something 
Arizona ae 
the shape of the leaves of P. Fremontit, 
but the lobes not nearly so small. The flowers are in 
tightly coiled clusters; the corolla a little more than a 
quarter of an inch across, dull white, with a pinkish line on 
each lobe and lilac anthers, the general effect being mauve. 
There are a good many kinds of Nemophila, natives of 
North America, mostly Californian, slender, fragile herbs, 
with alternate or opposite leaves, more or less divided, and 
usually large, single flowers, with rather long flower- 
stalks. The calyx has an appendage, resembling an extra 
little sepal, between each of the five sepals, which makes 
these plants easy to recognize, and the corolla is wheel- 
shaped or bell-shaped, usually with ten, small appendages 
within, at the base, and the petals are rolled up in the bud; 
the stamens are short; the styles partly united. The name 
is from the Greek, meaning ‘“‘grove lover,’’ because these 
plants like the shade. 
410 


