142 Eastwood : Some small-flowered Species of 



less dissected leaves, narrower and longer calyx divisions with the 

 auricles much longer, much more slender peduncles and more 

 slender stems and more open habit of growth. The general shape 

 of all the parts is about the same. 



2. Nemophila sepulta Parish, Erythea, 7 : 93 



Hirsute; stems 5-8 (rarely 15) cm. long, procumbent; leaves 

 usually approximate, opposite, oblong in outline, 12 mm. (rarely 



5 cm.) 



into a margined petiole, 



above pinnately parted nearly to the midrib into 5 or 7 equal, ob- 

 long, entire, mucronulate lobes : flowers on slender peduncles, 

 soon deflexed, and burying the capsule more or less in the soil : 

 lobes of the calyx triangular-acuminate, ciliate, the appendages 

 nearly as long as the lobes : corolla very small (4-6 mm. in 

 diameter), little exceeding the calyx lobes, white, its appendages 

 minute, consisting of narrow, vertical folds, ciliate with 1-3 short 

 hairs : ovules 4 : mature capsule 4-6 mm. in diameter, much ex- 

 ceeding the calyx lobes : seeds 4, irregularly triangular, rounded 

 on the back, obscurely pitted, and with a conspicuous caruncle. 



In rich soil, in meadows at Bear Valley, 6,500 ft. alt, in the 



San Bernardino Mountains, June, 1895, 3782 Parish, and other 



distributions. In some resnerts snnma 



N. 



A 



, from which it differs in its condensed and prostrate habit, 

 much smaller flowers, less deeply parted style, and notably in the 

 number and shape of the much larger seed. 



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3. Nemophila 



Stems decumbent or ascending, branching chiefly from the base, 

 10-15 cm. long, angled, cinereous with dense, fine, white, spread- 

 ing bristles : internodes longer than the leaves or peduncles, 5 

 mm.-3 cm. : leaves opposite, ovate to ovate-oblong and subor- 

 bicular, crenately five-lobed, with the lobes again crenate or en- 

 tire, 10-15 mm - long, 10-12 mm. wide, densely appressed hairy 

 with stiff and fine hairs intermixed, somewhat pustulate at base ; 

 upper leaves almost sessile, lower on petioles somewhat longer 

 than the blades : peduncles becoming spreading-recurved in fruit, 

 the upper longer than the leaves, the lower ones shorter : calvx 



•-lit -..- * 



with oblong acute divisions, 2 



hairy 



both surfaces, veins apparent : auricles short, narrow, linear, de- 

 flexed-spreading : corolla tubular, 3 mm. long, with the rounded 

 divisions sometimes equal, shorter than the tube ; appendages 2 

 narrow plates close to the base of the filaments, glabrous : fila- 

 ments inserted above the base, longer than the tube of the corolla : 



