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PHACÉLIA tanacetifolia.
Tansy-leaved Phacelia.
Linnean Class and Order. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA.
Natural Order. HYDROPHYLLEÆ. Br. Benth. in Linn. trans. 17.
p. 272.
P H A C E L IA . Suprà fol. 327.
P. tanacetifolia, scabro-pubescens vel hispida, foliis bipinnatifidis, segmentis
oblongis dentato-pinnatifidis, calycis laciniis oblongo-linearibus hispidis,
staminibus exsertis. Benth. in l. c. 17. p. 280., in hort. trans. n. s.
vol. 1. p. 479. Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 1696.
The whole plant clothed with spreading bristly hairs.
Stem erect, branched, about a foot high, cylindrical, green,
and rather glossy. Leaves alternate, distant, stalked, deeply
hipinnatifid, 2 or 3 inches long, the segments oblong, obtuse,
lobed and toothed, the teeth blunt, green above, paler
beneath, slightly revolute at the margin. Racemes cymose,
forked, terminal, many-flowered, ebracteate, an inch or two
inches long, the younger ones circinate. Peduncles cylindrical,
3 inches long. Flowers unilateral, crowded in the
iinexpanded state. Pedicels very short, hispid. Calyx
copiously bristly, deeply 5-partite, the segments linear-lanceolate,
obtuse, erect, rather fleshy, the two lateral ones
larger. Corolla short, funnel-shaped, a little longer than
the calyx, pale purple, the tube white; limb dilated, 5-lobed,
the lobes rounded, equal, entire, veiny, imbricate in aestivation.
Appendages 5, two-lobed, short, blunt, convolute and
rather tubular, membranous, situated within the stamens,
and inclosing the base of the filaments. Stamens 5, equal,
exserted. Filaments slender, glabrous, pale purple, adhering
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