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NEMOPHILA atomaria. 



Speckled JVcmophila. 



PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Hydrophyllaces. 

 NEMOPHILA. Suprd, vol. 9.fol. 740. 



N. atomaria ; foliis oppositis plniiatifidis basi in petiolum angustatis : lobis sub- 

 rotundis indivisis, calycis sinubus minimis reflexis, pedunculis axillaribus 

 corollisque hirtis, ovariis multi-ovulatis. 



N. atomaria. Fischer in litt. 



A new, but not very pretty, species of Nemophila, nearly 

 related to the beautiful N. insignis, but entirely destitute of 

 the brilliant blue in the corolla of that species. 



It is a hardy annual, and probably a native of California ; 

 but upon that point there is no precise information. The 

 seeds were sent to the Horticultural Society in 1836, from 

 the Imperial Garden at St. Petersburgh. 



Independently of the small size of the flowers, and their 

 want of blue, this species is to be distinguished from N. in- 

 signis by the following characters. The leaves are less 

 deeply cut, and their lobes are broader, and hardly ever 

 divided into secondary lobes ; the flower-stalks are rough 

 with hairs, not smooth ; the recesses of the calyx have 

 much shorter appendages ; the corolla is hairy, and strongly 

 marked with numerous, dull, lead-blue specks, both on the 

 inside and outside ; the style, too, is longer and rather 

 hispid. 



See folio 1601. 



