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anthers small, cordate : ovary densely hispid : style shorter than 

 the calyx with divisions half the entire length, hairy at base : pod 

 globular, hispid : seeds 2, globular, scrobiculate : calyptra stipe- 

 like, deciduous. 



This grows in the neighborhood of Sequoia gigantea in the 

 woods of Fresno County. It was first collected by Mr. T. S. Bran- 

 degee at Comstocks, near Sequoia Mills, July 24, 1892, in fruit, 



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and by the writer in flower at Sequoia Mills, May, 1894. 



It belongs to the group with corollas tubular and comes nearest 

 to N. sepitlta Parish. A comparison of the figures illustrating 

 the two species will show some of the differences. The two 

 are quite unlike also in habit, N. quercifolia being much more 

 sparsely flowered and with much longer internodes. Apparently 

 N. quercifolia does not bury its capsules in the ground as is the 

 case with N. sepulta. 



4.' Nemophila Austinae sp. no v. 



Branching from the base and dichotomously above with the 

 stems slender, weak, decumbent or ascending, clothed with a few, 

 scattered, deflexed bristles : internodes 2-3 times as long as the 

 leaves, 1-6 cm. : cotyledons oval, 1 cm. long on petioles of the 

 same length or slightly longer: leaves ovate in outline, 1-2.$ 

 cm. long, 5-18 mm. wide, 5-7-lobed with rounded entire or lobed 

 divisions and broad rachis, mucronate ; base cuneate, tapering to 

 margined petioles (texture thin and veiny, the surface clothed 

 with fine, closely appressed hairs) : petioles connate-clasping at the 

 dilated base, as long as or shorter than the blades, almost want- 

 ing on the upper leaves : peduncles slender or rarely stout, re- 

 curved, somewhat tortuous, surpassed by the leaves : calyx with 

 triangular-subulate divisions, 3 mm. long, 1 mm. wide, hairy on 

 the outer surface and on the inner near the apex : auricles linear, 

 more than half as long as the sepals, deflexed : corolla tubular, 

 slightly spreading, 3.5 mm. long, with retuse divisions not so long 

 as the tube, each with 2 short rows of hairs at base between the 

 stamens : stamens inserted above the base, about as long as the 

 tube : anthers heart-shaped : ovary globular, not hispid on the 

 lower part, nor densely so on the upper : style divided half way, 

 very short: seeds two, corrugated, with the caruncle covered 

 with a shallow, cap-like calpytra which is neither bracted nor 

 stipe-like. 



This was collected by M 

 s, Tune, 188;. It is n 



Mrs. Austin whose 



