A.Nemophila Nutt. 
Low herbs with alternate pinnate leaves (in our species). Flowers 
solitary in the axils. Calyx S-lobed, bearing a small reflexed appendage 
at each sinus. Corolla minute, saucer=-shaped. Capsule l-chambered. 
l. Ne explicata Nels. & Macbride. A weak annual sprawling over low 
herbage, its stems 20-30 om. long, scabrous along the angles, branching; 
leaves eivernetey 2-3 cm. long, pinnately 5-parted the segments mostly oblong, 
obtuse narrowed at the base, 1-1.5 om. long, 5-8 mm. wide, both surfaces 
sparsely hirtellous, petioles 1-2 cm. long; flowers 
opposite the leaves, the pedicels at length 1.5-2 cm. long, deflexed, scabrous; 
sepals narrowly lanceolate-oblong, 2 mm. long at anthesis, increasing to 6 mn. 
in fruit, 1-1.5 mn. wide, l-veined, pectinate-hispid, the appendages 2 mn. 
long; corolla white, 2 mm. long, the lobes rounded, about equal to the tube ; 
internal appendages none; capsule subglobose, 3 mm. long, hispidulous; seeds 
solitary, subglobose, 3 mn. long, smooth, the caruncle like a honey-comb. 
— > (A form of N. breviflora say Gray?). 
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Climbing over low herbage in springy places, ish Lake, 6000 fte; 
santianne Creek bottom, 3000 ft.; Vanderbilt Gulch, 
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