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outer surface, glabrous on the inner, ciliate : auricles becoming 

 almost as long as the divisions, strongly declined and hispid : 

 corolla rotate-campanulate, 5.5 mm. long: divisions longer than 

 the tube, obovate, emarginate, 3 mm. broad, with two rows of hairs 

 between the filaments at base : stamens with filaments as long as 

 the corolla tube and cordate-acuminate anthers : ovary hispid at 

 summit and at the base of the style : style divided half way to the 

 base, stigmas capitate : capsule orbicular, or ovate, margined, ap- 

 parently flattened, glabrate, veiny under the lens, 5-6 mm. in 

 diameter: seeds about 4, oblong, obscurely pitted : calyptra promi - 

 nent and scrobiculate. 



This well-marked species was collected by H. E. Brown, near 



Clear Creek, Butte County, California, March 3-22, 1897, being 



no. 173 of his collection. 



^27. Nemophila rotata sp. nov. 



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Stems one or several from the root, decumbent or ascending, 

 about 12 cm. long, rather slender, angled, hispid with stiff, fine, 

 spreading bristles, internodes longer or shorter than the leaves, 

 from .5-3 cm.: leaves opposite, oblong in outline, 3-7-lobed, 5 

 mm. to 2 cm. long, 2 mm-12 mm. wide, tapering at base to a 

 broad margined petiole as long as the blade and dilated, connate- 

 clasping at base, forming prominent nodes when the stems grow 

 old, bristly-ciliate, especially near the base : divisions suborbicular, 

 entire or more rarely lobed or toothed, mucronate : rachis as 

 wide or slightly wider than the petiole ; surface with the veins dis- 

 tinct, paler on the lower than the upper surface, the appressed 

 hairs spreading : flowers from the lowest axils, soon deflexed on 

 elongating, somewhat tortuous peduncles, which are densely hispid 

 with horizontally spreading bristles and in length generally exceed 

 the internodes : calyx with the divisions almost to the base, trian- 

 gular subulate, 2 mm. long, hispid on both surfaces, near the apex 

 on the inner : auricles linear, spreading, somewhat elongating in 

 fruit : corolla bright blue, rotate, 9 mm. in diameter : divisions 

 ovate-oblong, obtuse or acute at apex, extending almost to the 

 base : basal scales, linear, hairy, attached by the base on each side 

 of a filament : filaments and anthers violet, the former more than 

 half as long as the petals, the latter heart-shaped : style divided 

 almost to the base, ovary densely hispid : seeds 4-8, minutely 

 scrobiculate and obscurely corrugated, the caruncle covered with 

 a deciduous, stipe -like, curved calyptra. 



This Nemophila was first collected by C. R. Orcutt in the Can- 

 tillas Mountains. Lower California (no. 1128), July 5, 1889. On 



