158 Eastwood : Some small-flowered Species of 



nodes 10 cm.; lower leaves opposite, upper alternate, ovate in 

 outline, 1—4 cm. long, divisions usually 5, the upper 3-lobed with 

 orbicular mucronate divisions, the lower distant, petiolulate, 3- 

 lobed ; upper leaves with the lobes more approximate, and with 

 shorter petioles : peduncles long, capillary, spreading or reflexed, 

 half as long as the long internodes, longer than the upper, shorter 

 ones : calyx with linear divisions extending almost to the base, 

 veiny, hispid externally, sparingly hairy within, 2 mm. long, less 

 than 1 mm. wide : auricles button-like or even wanting : corolla 

 rotate-campanulate, blue or rarely white, 6-8 mm. across ; divi- 

 sions obovate-oblong, hairy on the outside in lines, glabrous within ; 

 appendages of two narrow, linear scales inserted between the sta- 

 mens by one side, the free side ciliate on the margin : stamens 

 with filaments longer than the tube of the corolla, inserted at the 

 base : anthers oblong : ovary and lower part of style densely 

 hispid : style forked almost half way : seeds 2—4, corrugated, 

 with cap-like calyptra. 



This beautiful little Nemophila is distributed through the lower 

 mountains of the southern Sierra Nevada. Specimens have been 

 examined from Sequoia Mills, Fresno County, from Kaweah in 

 several distinct localities and with several specimens showing vari- 

 ation in foliage, habit and size of flowers. These were all collected 

 by the writer. They grew in the shade of brush. Besides there 

 are three specimens collected by Dr. G. Eisen in the foothills of 

 the Sierra, probably from the same region, and three from C. A. 

 Purpus collected in the Chaparrau belt, in the brush, Bear Creek, 

 Tulare County, altitude 3000-5000 ft. (no. 1720). It flowers in 

 April and May. 



26. Nemophila alata sp. nov. 



Stems several from the base, simple or branching above, erect 

 but weak, apparently succulent, glabrous, sometimes spotted with 

 purple, flat with wings broader than the axis, together 2 mm. 

 wide : internodes about as long as the leaves, generally shorter 

 than the peduncles, varying from 2-5 cm. : leaves almost reg- 

 ularly 5-7 pinnately parted, veiny, sparingly pubescent with hairs 

 scattered or chiefly on the veins : divisions oblong, mucronate, the 

 upper three somewhat confluent, the lower almost falcately spread- 

 ing : petioles equalling or shorter than the blades, 2-4 mm. wide, 

 dilated at the connate-clasping base which is sparingly ciliate : 

 flowers from all the axils, on glabrous, winged, horizontally 

 spreading peduncles which are about 4 cm. long : divisions of 

 the calyx linear-subulate, 3 mm. long^in flower, veiny, hispid on the 



