144 Eastwood : Some small-flowered Species of 



collections have been so valuable in furthering the knowledge of 



the flora of California. 



N. humift 



habit, foliage, capsule, seed, and with a corolla of a different shape. 



5. Nemophila macrophylla sp. no v. 



Stems weak, procumbent or supported by other plants, re- 

 trorsely hispid with scattered bristles, branching, ribbed : inter- 

 nodes generally longer than the leaves becoming 8 cm. or more : 

 leaves opposite or alternate near the ends of the branches, thin, 

 ovate-orbicular in outline, variously lobed and divided, often with 

 the three upper lobes confluent, cuneate in outline, the lower more 

 spreading, often lobed or toothed, obtuse at the rounded apex ; 

 blades 1-4 cm. long, almost as wide as long ; petioles slender com- 

 pared with the leaf, dilated and connate clasping at base, about as 

 long as the blades ; the appressed bristles on the surface scattered 

 but dense on the petioles : peduncles long, slender, spreading or 

 recurved in fruit, longer than the petioles : calyx enlarging notice- 

 ably in fruit, the divisions in flower oblong, acute, 3 mm. long, 

 hispid on both sides, more densely so on the outer : auricles blunt, 

 1 mm. long : corolla slightly surpassing the calyx, tubular, the 

 tube longer than the oblong divisions, hispid externally and ciliate 

 at apex ; appendages at base of 2 narrow scales which are ciliate 

 on the free edge, about 1 mm. long : stamens as long as the tube 

 of the corolla, inserted near the base : anthers ovate : ovary his- 

 pid at summit : style divided below the middle : pod purplish : 

 seeds 4, coarsely pitted, the calyptra stipe-like. 



This strange looking Nemophila was collected by the writer 



:r in Monterey County, June 16, 1893. It grew 



in a shady place. 



N. 



of calyx, size of corolla and shape of appendages. 



6. Nemophila inconspicua sp. nov. 



Branching widely from the base, decumbent, with branches 3- 

 1 5 cm. long, slender, clothed with a few retrorse bristles : inter- 

 nodes shorter or longer than the leaves, from .5 to 5 cm.: leaves 

 spatulate in outline, 3-5 -lobed, generally with one lobe on one 

 side, two on the other, tapering to a broad margined petiole which 

 is connate-clasping at base when there is an opposite leaf ; lobes 

 similar to broad teeth, mucronate ; surface with the hairs soft, 

 loosely appressed, denser on the lower surface : peduncles equal- 

 ling or exceeding the leaves, spreading or nodding in fruit : calyx 



