154 Eastwood : Some small-flowered Species of 



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below, almost petiolulate : petiole broad, equalling or shorter than 

 the blade, ciliate-hispid especially at the dilated base : peduncles 

 slender, spreading, with the flower and fruiting calyx nodding, 

 generally surpassing the leaves, hispid with retrorsely spreading 

 bristles : calyx with the divisions linear-oblong, appressed hairy 

 on the inner surface, hispid on the outer : auricles small, scarcely 

 evident : corolla rotate-campanulate, 5 mm. long, with the broad 

 obcordate or retuse divisions longer than the tube : appendages at 

 base triangular, attached by one side, the upper free side toothed, 

 the other towards the stamens entire : stamens inserted a little 

 above the base of the corolla with filaments a little longer than 

 the tube : ovary densely hispid : style apparently divided only 

 near the top, shorter than the calyx divisions : capsule and seeds 

 not known. 



This appears to be found along the western base of the Sierra 

 Nevada in Placer and Amador Counties. Specimens were ex- 

 amined from Applegate, Placer County, collected by Mrs. Helen 

 Smith, May, 1899 ; from Folsom collected by Mr. T. S. Brandegee, 

 April, 1883 ; and from Drytown, Amador County, collected by 

 George Hansen, April 8, 1896 (no. 2064). 



20. Nemophila gracilis sp. nov. 



Stems very slender, branching from near the base and dichoto- 

 mously and tritomously above, ribbed, sparingly hispid with ret- 

 rorse hairs : internodes, except near the ends of the branchlets, 

 4-6 cm. long : leaves opposite, generally unequally lobed with 

 1-2 divisions on one side, 2-3 on the other, rarely 1 or 2 on each 

 side, all broadly petiolulate, oblong-elliptical : margin sinuate, apex 

 obtuse or mucronulate : upper surface bright green with sparingly 

 appressed, stiff hairs which have black pustules at base, the lower 

 paler and soft hairy, veining evident, texture thin : petioles some- 

 what shorter than the blades, narrower that the rachis, dilated and 

 connate-clasping at base : flowers very small on capillary, hispid 

 peduncles, 10-15 mm. long: calyx with linear-oblong divisions, 

 thin and somewhat veiny, 1-2 mm. long, sparingly hispid on both 

 surfaces, bristles on the margin long and unequal : auricles less 

 than ]/^ as long as the sepals : corolla rotate-campanulate, 3 mm. 

 long : divisions as long as the tube, obovate-oblong, glabrous on 

 inner surface, hairy on the outer : appendages narrow, glabrous, 

 triangular, attached next the filaments by the longest side, the op- 

 posite angle free : stamens with slender filaments a little longer 

 than the tube of the corolla attached at the base : anthers oblong, 

 small : ovary and lower part of style densely hispid, divisions of 



