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PHACELIA VINIFOLIA. 
(vine-leaved PHACELIA.) 
CLASS. OIIDER. 
PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
NATURAL ORDER. 
BORAGINE^. 
Generic Character. — Calyx persistent. Corolla bell-shaped (campanulate), five cleft. Stamens 
exserted. Style short. Stigma divided at the apex, long. 
Specific Character. — Annual, clothed over every part with very minute hairs (pilose) or down (pubes- 
cent). Stem about eighteen inches high, slender, somewhat branching. Calyx linear five-cleft, 
each about a third shorter than the corolla. Corolla spreading, divided into five ovate, obtuse 
lobes, of a very bright blue colour, the lustre of which gradually diminishes towards the centre, where a 
yellow eye is formed, which gives a remarkably striking effect to the expanded flower. Stamens 
five. Filaments weak, inserted into a kind of sheath near the base of the corolla. Anthers 
yellow. Style the length of the filaments when these are erect, a character they by no means seem 
true to. Flowers produced in loose, lateral, leafless panicles. 
An extremely pretty little plant, producing- flowers which rival in colour that 
elegant annual recently figured in Bot. Mag. 3485, being only surpassed by the 
surperior size of the corolla ; it flowers freely, and, unlike its rival, is of a very 
neat-growing- habit. The free disposition to flower, and ample, not crowded, foliage, 
combined with its neat growth, render it desirable in a high degree as an autumnal 
ornament for the flower garden. 
This is another of the many contributions so conspicuous in our Magazine, 
communicated by our numerous friends in and about Manchester, whose zeal and 
success in the cultivation of exotic plants is of the highest tone ; the present sample 
was furnished, some time back, by Mr. Campbell, curator of the Botanic Garden at 
that place. 
The seed from which the plant was obtained was imported by the late much 
respected Mr. Drummond, from Texas. 
An open rich loamy garden soil will suit it, and the readiest way, we expect, by 
which it can be increased, is from seeds, and it is very probable that it will ripen 
these in abundance. 
The generic name alludes to the flowers, which are disposed in fascicled spikes. 
The leaves of this pretty little new annual being so much like those of the vine, 
we have been led to adopt for it a specific name vinifoUa although, from the 
little knowledge we have of the plant, we suspect it will not be found to continue 
true to ihat character. If it should prove that the leaves are Hable to vary much in 
form, we suggest " heterophylla " as a specific name, as in that case being more 
descriptive of the plant. 
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