WATERLEAF FAMILY 481 



Corolla less than 1 cm. broad. 



Corolla pelviform or campanulate; filaments about equaling corolla-tube. 



Auricles one-third as long as sepals at least in fruit; corolla pelviform, white and usually 

 marked; plants of moist places or in light shade. 

 Leaves oblong or oval, deeply divided, truncate or weakly cuneate at base, paler and bear- 

 ing stomata below. 3. AT. pediinculata. 

 Leaves spatulate, shallowly lobed or toothed, strongly cuneate at base; surfaces alike, both 

 bearing stomata. 5. N. spatiilata. 

 Auricles less than one-third as long as sepals even in fruit; corolla pelviform or campanulate, 

 white or bluish but unmarked; chiefly plants of shaded habitats. 

 Basal leaves divided into 5-7 similar, distinct, orbicular, petiolulate divisions, the sinuses 

 broad; corolla pelviform; style usually 2-3 mm. long, conspicuously exserted from 

 calyx. S. A', heterophylla. 

 Basal leaves incised or shallowly lobed, some divisions dissimilar, confluent or not petiolu- 

 late; corolla campanulate; style 1 .5 mm. or less long, not prominently exserted; seeds 

 yellow or orange. 7. N . parviftora. 

 Corolla rotate or nearly so; filaments longer than corolla-tube. 



Auricles conspicuous; seeds 4-10, corrugate-tuberculate; corolla-appendages conspicuous, free 



at tip. 4. A^. Menziesit. 



Auricles minute or obsolete; seeds 1-4, smooth or obscurely roughened; plants of central and 

 northern California. 9. A^. pulchetla. 



1. Nemophila breviflora A. Gray. Great Basin Nemophila. Fig. 4049. 



Nemophila breviflora A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 10: 315. 1875. 



Stems weak, 0.5-2 dm. tall, sharply angled and armed with minute, reflexed prickles, the 

 stems otherwise glabrous. Leaves alternate, the lower ovate-deltoid, obtuse, subcordate, 0.7-3 crn. 

 long, 1.5^ cm. broad, pinnately divided into 3-6 oblong-lanceolate, falcate, remote, acute divi- 

 sions, entire or with a single tooth, sparsely hispid, venose, glaucous beneath ; flowers on very 

 short pedicels ; calyx-lobes linear-lanceolate, 3 mm. long, 1-2 mm. broad, the auricles reflexed, 

 1.5 mm. long; corolla narrowly campanulate, white or purplish, 1.5-3 mm. broad, the oval 

 divisions shorter than the tube, the corolla shorter than the calyx ; filaments shorter than the 

 tube; appendages cuneate or linear, the free edge fimbriate, or reduced to hairy lines; style 

 0.5-1 mm. long; capsule 3-5 mm. in diameter, exceeded by the strongly accrescent calyx; seed 

 usually 1, globose, 2-4 mm. in diameter, brick-red, smooth, but regularly and deeply pitted in 

 rows ; cucullus reduced, persistent. 



Moist shade, usually of conifers. Transition and Boreal Zones; eastern Washington and Oregon to Modoc 

 County, California; north to British Columbia, east to Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, and Nevada. Type lo- 

 cality: Parley's Park, Utah. May-July. 



2. Nemophila Kirtleyi Henderson. Snake Canyon Nemophila. Fig. 4050. 



Nemophila Kirtleyi Henderson, Bull. Torrey Club 27: 350. 1900. 



Stems weak, 2-20 cm. long, sparsely hispid. Lower leaves opposite, the uppermost often 



alternate, oblong to ovate, 1.5-3.5 cm. long, 0.5-1.5 cm. broad, pinnately but usually shallowly 



lobed, the ?>-7 lobes oblong to triangular-ovate, entire or 1-2-toothed, obtuse or acute, thinly 



hispid; calyx-lobes lanceolate-oblong, 4-6 mm. long, 2 mm. broad, the auricles 1-2 mm. long; 



corolla broadly campanulate or pelviform, white or bluish, 7-12 mm. broad, the obovate lobes 



about equaling the tube; filaments about equaling the tube; appendages broad, cuneate, the free 



edge fimbriate ; style 2-5 mm. long ; capsule globose or nearly so, 4-7 mm. in diameter, exceeded 



by the strongly accrescent calyx ; seeds 2-4, cylindric-oblong or ovoid, 3-4 mm. long, yellowish 



brown, regularly pitted in rows ; cucullus very small and flat, deciduous. 



Moist shade, under rocks and bushes. Arid Transition and Upper Sonoran Zones; Snake River drainage 

 system of Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. Type locality: Salmon River Hill, Florence, Idaho. May-July. 



3. Nemophila pedunculata Dougl. Meadow Nemophila. Fig. 4051. 



Nemophila pedunculata Dougl. ex Benth. Trans. Linn. Soc. 17:275. 1835. 



Nemophila sepulta Parish, Erythea 7: 93. 1899. 



Nemophila densa Howell, Fl. N.W. Amer. 1: 466. 1901. 



Nemophila humifusa Kell. ex Eastw. Bull. Torrey Club 28: 141. 1901. 



Nemophila yiana Eastw. op. cit. 151. 



Nemophila e.rigua Eastw. op. cit. 157. 



Nemophila alata Eastw. op. cit. 158. 



Nemophila minutifiora Suksd. Amer. Scientist 14: 32. 1903. 



Nemophila reticulata Suksd. op. cit. 33. 



Nemophila erosa Suksd. op. cit. 34. 



Nemophila mucronata Eastw. ex Sheldon, Bull. Torrey Club 30: 300. 1903. 



Nemophila eriocarpa Gandoger, Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. 65: 64. 1918. 



Nemophila insularis Eastw. ex J. T. Howell, Proc. Calif. Acad. IV. 21 : 282. 1935. 



Stems weak, succulent, angled or winged, 1-3 dm. tall, sparsely hispid or glabrate. Leaves 

 all opposite, oblong to oval, 0.5-3.5 cm. long, 0.5-2 cm. broad, obtuse, slightly cuneate at base, 

 pinnately and deeply divided into 5-9 short, oblong to obovate divisions, obtuse or acute, entire 

 or 1-2-toothed, appressed-hispid ; flowers in the axils, on short pedicels ; calyx-lobes linear to 

 ovate-lanceolate, 1-3 mm. long, 0.5-1.5 mm. broad, the auricles reflexed, 0.5-1.5 mm. long; 

 corolla pelviform or campanulate, 3-6 mm. broad, white or pale blue, usually veined or spotted 

 with black, blue, or purple, or each lobe with a terminal purple blotch, the lobes oblong to 

 obovate, equaling or exceeding the tube; filaments about equaling the tube; appendages narrowly 

 linear, the free edge hairy, or reduced to hairy lines ; style a little less than 1 mm. long ; capsule 



