1713 
* NEMOPHILA insígnis. 
Shewy Nemophila. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. HybroPnYLLEA. R. Br. (Introduction to the Natural System , 
of Botany, p. 244.) 
NEMOPHILA. Supra, vol. 9, fol. 740. 
N. insignis; foliis oppositis pinnatifidis basi in petiolum angustatis : lobis inte- 
gerrimis 1-2-dentatisve, calycis sinubus reflexis, corollis calyce duplo longio- 
ribus, ovariis multi-ovulatis. Bentham in Hort. Trans. vol. 1. n. s. p. 643. 
The Nemophilas are all difficult plants to preserve in 
gardens. NV. phacelioides has long since disappeared ; and 
we fear this brilliant Californian species, which flowered in 
August 1833, in the garden of the Horticultural Society, 
will scarcely be found more manageable. Mr. Bentham 
gives the following account of it in the Transactions of the 
Horticultural Society :— 
* This elegant species of Nemophila is readily distin- 
guished by the.size of the flowers, which are larger even 
than those of AN. phacelioides, (figured in the Botanical Ma- 
gazine, t. 2373.) It isa low procumbent herb, but less 
straggling than the po and peduncularis. The leaves 
are from one to two inches long, green, with a few rigid 
hairs; the lobes from 3 to 5 on each side, deeply cut, but 
not reaching the midrib, of nearly equal size on the same 
leaf, ovate and slightly faleate. The peduncles axillary, 
solitary, one-flowered, nearly twice as long as the leaves. 
Flowers blue, above an inch in diameter. The ovarium con- 
tains usually 20 or 24 ovula, regularly arranged on each side 
of the central lines of the broad fleshy placenta, and from 8 to 
12 of these ovula usually attain maturity in each capsule. 
* See folio 1601. 
