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NEMÓPHILA atomária. 
Speckled Nemophila. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. HyDROPHYLLACEA. . 
NEMOPHILA. Suprà, vol. 9. fol. 740. 
N. atomária ; foliis oppositis pinnatifidis basi in petiolum angustatis : lobis sub- 
rotundis indivisis, calycis sinubus minimis reflexis, pedunculis axillaribus 
corollisque hirtis, ovarıis multi-ovulatis. 
N. atomaria. Fischer in litt. 
A new, but not very pretty, species of Nemophila, nearly 
related to the beautiful N.insignis, but entirely destitute of 
the brilliant blue in the corolla of that species. 
It is a hardy annual, and probably a native of California ; 
but upon that point there is no precise information. The 
seeds were sent to the Horticultural Society în 1836, from 
the Imperial Garden at St. Petersburgh. 
Independently of the small size of the flowers, and their 
want of blue, this species is to € from N. in- 
signis by the following characters. The leaves are less 
deeply cut, and their lobes are broader, and hardly ever 
divided into secondary lobes; the flower-stalks are rough 
with hairs, not smooth; the recesses of the calyx have 
much shorter appendages ; the corolla is hairy, and strongly 
marked with numerous, dull, lead-blue specks, both on the 
inside and outside; the style, too, is longer and rather 
hispid. 
* See folio 1601. 
