1713 



* NEMOPHILA insignis. 

 Shewy Nemophila. 



PENTANDRIA MO'NOGY^IA. 



Nat. ord. Hydrophylle^. R. Br. (Introduction to the Natural System 

 of Botany , ]i. 244.) 



NEMOPHILA. Supra, vol. 9,fol. 740. 



N. insignis ; foliis oppositis pinnatifidls basi In petiolum angustatis : lobis inte- 

 gcrrimis 1-2-dentatisve, calycls sinubus reflexis, corollis calyce duplo longio- 

 ribus, ovariis multi-ovulatis. Bentham inHort. Trans, vol. \.n.s. p. 643. 



The Nemophilas are all difficult plants to preserve in 

 gardens. JV. phacelioides has long since disappeared ; and 

 we fear this brilliant Californian species, which flowered in 

 August 1833, in the garden of the Horticultural Society, 

 will scarcely be found more manageable. Mr. Bentham 

 gives the following account of it in the Transactions of the 

 Horticultural Society : — 



"This elegant species of Nemophila is readily distin- 

 guished by the size of the flowers, which are larger even 

 than those of JV. phacelioides, (figured in the Botanical Ma- 

 gazine, t. 2373.) It is a low procumbent herb, but less 

 straggling than the parviflora and peduncidaris. The leaves 

 are from one to two inches long, green, with a few rigid 

 hairs; the lobes from 3 to 5 on each side, deeply cut, but 

 not reaching the midrib, of nearly equal size on the same 

 leaf, ovate and slightly falcate. The peduncles axillary, 

 solitary, one-flowered, nearly twice as long as the leaves. 

 Flowers blue, above an inch in diameter. The ovarium con- 

 tains usually 20 or 24 ovula, regularly arranged on each side 

 of the central lines of the broad fleshy placenta, and from 8 to 

 12 of these ovula usually attain maturity in each capsule. 



* See folio 1601. 



