482 HYDROPHYLLACEAE 



3-6 mm. in diameter, exceeding the weakly accrescent calyx ; seeds usually 2-8, ovoid, olive- 

 green or brov^n, smooth or somewhat corrugated, 1-4 mm. long; cucullus usually papillaeform 

 and often prolonged at one side, deciduous. 



Wet open places or in light shade. Upper Sonoran, Transition, and Boreal Zones; throughout the Pacific 

 Coast states, in suitable habitats, to British Columbia, Idaho, Nevada, and Lower California. Type locality: "on 

 the Columbia." April-Aug, 



4. Nemophila Menziesii Hook. & Arn. Baby Blue-eyes. Fig. 4025. 



Nemophila Menziesii Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beechey 152. 1833. 

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

 Nemophila liniftora Fisch. & Mey. Sert. Petrop. pi. 8. 1846. 

 Nemophila modesta KeU. Proc. Calif. Acad. 7: 93. 1877. 

 Nemophila intermedia Bioletti, Erythea 3: 141. 1895. 

 Nemophila Brandegei Eastw. Bull. Torrey Club 29: 471. 1902. 

 Nemophila macrocarpa Eastw. loc. cit. 

 Nemophila Evermannii Eastw. Proc. Calif. Acad. 20: 152. 1931. 



Stems succulent, diffuse, obscurely winged or angled, 1-3 dm. long, pubescent. Leaves all 

 opposite, linear-oblong to oval, 2-5 cm. long, 0.8-2.5 cm. broad, pinnately divided into usually 

 9-11 oblong to orbicular, obtuse divisions, entire or 1-3-toothed, appressed-hispid ; flowers on 

 slender pedicels which exceed the leaves ; calyx-lobes lanceolate, 4-6 mm. long, 1-3 mm. broad, 

 the auricles linear or lanceolate, 1.5-2.5 mm. long, reflexed; corolla pelviform to semi-rotate, 

 1.5-4 cm. broad, bright blue with a white center, or conspicuously blue-veined, or black-spotted 

 in the center, the lobes obovate or oblong, exceeding the tube ; filaments about equaling the tube ; 

 appendages broad or narrow, partly free or adherent or reduced to hairy lines ; style 3-5 mm. 

 long; capsule globose or ovoid, 0.5-1.5 cm. in diameter; seeds usually 10-20, ovoid to oblong, 

 about 2 mm. long, dark brown or black, corrugate-tuberculate, the cucullus often papillaeform, 

 deciduous. 



Open, moist flats and slopes at low altitudes. Upper Sonoran and Transition Zones; cismontane California, 

 from Mendocino and Shasta Counties to San Diego County. Type locality: California. Feb.-June. 



Nemophila Menziesii var. atomaria (Fisch. & Mey.) Chandl. Bot. Gar. 34: 204. 1902. (Nemophila ato- 

 maria Fisch. & Mey. Ind. Sem. Hort. Petrop. 2: 42. 1835; N. Johnsonii Eastw. Bull. Torrey Club 29: 472. 

 1902.) Herbage succulent and less hairy; corolla 1.5-3 cm. broad, white with black dots radiating from the 

 center almost to the periphery, the lobes usually narrower; appendages usually reduced to hairy lines; seeds 8-12. 

 Coast of central California to northwestern Oregon, in the Humid Transition Zone. Type locality: Fort Ross, 

 Sonoma County, California. 



Nemophila Menziesii var. integrifolia Parish, Erythea 6: 92. 1898. (.Nemophila rotata Eastw. Bull. 

 Torrey Club 28: 159. 1901; A^. Memiesii var. annulata Chandl. Bot. Gaz. 44: 381. 1907; N. Menziesii subsp. 

 australis and vars. incana and minima Brand, Pflanzenreich 4^^: 50. 1913.) Becoming very diffuse; lower leaves 

 with only 5-7 entire or few-toothed lobes, the upper leaves entire or shallowly few-toothed, rhomboid, spatulate, or 

 oblong, sessile or nearly so, greatly reduced upwards; corolla rotate or very shallow, pale or deep blue, punctate 

 at the center with large black dots or blue-veined, or with a deep blue periphery, 0.6-1.5 cm. broad; corolla little 

 longer than the calyx; appendages usually with a free, hairy edge or tip; filaments longer than the tube; capsule 

 about equaling the moderately accrescent calyx; seeds 4—10. Mountains of southern California, southwest of the 

 desert region, and adjacent Lower California. Type locality: San Bernardino County, California. 



5. Nemophila spatulata Coville. Sierra Nemophila. Fig. 4053. 



Nemophila spatulata Coville, Contr. U.S. Nat. Herb. 4: 156. 1893. 

 Nemophila humilis Eastw. Bull. Torrey Club 28: 150. 1901. 

 Nemophila Congdonii Eastw. op. cit. 151. 

 Nemophila pratcnsis Eastw. op. cit. 29: 474. 1902. 



Stems weak, 1-3 dm. long, hispid or glabrate. Leaves all opposite, the lowest oval to orbi- 

 cular, obtuse, cuneate at base, about 1 cm. long, 1 cm. broad, pinnately shallowly 3-5-lobed, the 

 divisions oblong or ovate, entire, obtuse, the petioles winged, the upper leaves shallowly 3-5- 

 toothed, with triangular-ovate teeth, appressed-hirsute or -hispid, with stomata on both surfaces ; 

 flowers on short pedicels; calyx-lobes 2.5-5 mm. long, 1-2 mm. broad, the auricles reflexed, 

 1-1.5 mm. long; corolla pelviform, 0.5-1 cm. broad, white or bluish and centrally punctate, 

 venose, or with purple blotches on the ends of the oval lobes, the lobes exceeding the tube ; fila- 

 ments shorter than the tube ; appendages broad, the free edge hairy, or narrower or reduced to 

 hairy lines ; capsule 4-7 mm. in diameter, exceeding the weakly accrescent calyx ; seeds usually 

 5-6, ovoid, 3 mm. long, light brown, smooth but shallowly pitted, the cucullus usually papillaeform, 

 deciduous. 



Open meadows or in light shade, in the mountains, Transition and Boreal Zones; Sierra Nevada and moun- 

 tains of southern California. Type locality: Whitney Meadows, Tulare County, California. May-July. 



6. Nemophila maculata Benth. Fivespot. Fig. 4054. 



Nemophila maculata Benth. ex Lindl. Journ. Hort. Soc. Lond. 3: 319. 1848. 



Stems succulent, loosely hispid or glabrate, 1-3 dm. long. Leaves all opposite, oval or oblong 

 with a cuneate base, 0.8-2 cm. long, 0.3-0.8 cm. broad, pinnately and deeply 5-9-lobed, the lobes 

 lanceolate to orbicular, the petioles equaling or exceeding the blade, the upper leaves nearly 

 sessile, 3-toothed to entire, all hispid to hirsute, with stomata on both surfaces ; flowers on long, 

 stout pedicels ; calyx-lobes lanceolate to triangular-ovate, 5-8 mm. long, 2-4 mm. broad, the 

 auricles reflexed, 1-4 mm. long; corolla pelviform to nearly rotate, 1.5--4.5 cm. broad, white 

 and veined or punctate, with a conspicuous purple blotch at the tip of each lobe, the lobes ob- 

 lanceolate to obovate, exceeding the tube ; filaments slightly exceeding the tube ; appendages 

 oblong or linear, pubescent on the free edge ; style 3-6 mm. long ; capsule 4-6 mm. in diameter, 



