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long) with six pairs of leaflets, tlie peduncles about equaling or exceeding 
the leaves, and the hispidness of the calyx rather less dense ; flowers blue. 
It is the H. capUatum, Var., of Whipple's Report, 1176 Brewer and 4928 
Bolander from Cahfoniia, and 641 Fendler from New Mexico. Sporimciis 
from the Wahsatch, near Salt Lake City, have oblontr-loaflcls, 1-2' hnw, 
coarsely laciniate-lobed. (865.) Others from the West IIuudKildt ]\[<)init- 
ains, Nevada, have broadly ovate leaflets, less than 1' long, often conhilc :i1 
base, the lobes few and short. (866.) 5-7,500 feet altitude ; M ay, .Imic. 
Hydeophyllum capitatum, Dougl. DC. Frodr. 9. 28!). T.(»\\ , C in 
height; stem and leaves pubescent or sometimes slii^htly hispid ; > 
ovate in outline, 2-3' long, upon elongated petioles, wilh ahoiil L^-.T jiairs of 
coarsely-lobed segments ; flowers in dense sessile or short-pcdimclcd ]ic;i<]s, 
considerably shorter than the leaves; calyx very hispid-pulM'sccnt ; corolla 
blue; root fasciculate. — Oregon and Washington Territory, (371 Fit'iiKnif , 
326 Geyer, &c,) In the canons of the Wahsatch, where it was also colicc^cd 
by Stansbury ; 5-7,000 feet altitude ; June. (867.) 
Var. ALPiNUM. In dense clusters, the leaves concealing the uhnosi suh- 
terranean inflorescence, which is rather looser and with ihc more linear 
lobes of the calyx less densely hirsute; pedicels uml)ellate and (>ccasi<nially 
thickened toward the base, reflexed in fruit, some of ilw flowers altortive 
and caducous. — East Humboldt Mountains, Nevada ; rocky ridge at 9,000 
feet altitude ; July. (868.) 
Nemophila PARVIFLOKA, Dougl. Diffuse, more or less pilose throuLdi- 
out with spreading hairs ; stems slender, dccumhent or ascendini:. and u illi 
the peduncles retrosely prickly ; leaves opposite or alternate, ovate in out- 
line, pinnatifid, the 3-9 (mostly 5) lobes ovate or ohlonii', 1<^IL^ a<-ute. 
entire or sometimes 1-toothed, the lower lobes more disliuel : |)ednnele> 
about equaling the leaves, opposite to them when the leaves are ahernate. 
turned downward when in fruit; apjtendaires of the eal\ \ very sh(. rl. or 
sometimes conspicuous; corolla 1-2'' huvj, .-eareely exeeedlnii tlie r;.l\\, 
tubular, 5-cleft, the obovate emarginate h)bes olien i)ilose al tiie a[.e\ : Wts- 
ules 2 at the base of each filanicnt, very small; caj)siile somewhat hairy. 
in diameter, the placenta3 2-ovuled, or in Var. ],lurwn//aM, Ton:. ( X prrhn/- 
culata, Benth.,) with the seeds numerous and tid)enailate.~l''rom Washim:- 
ton Territory to Soutliern California. T))e present sp.rimens difli-r from 
the ordinary tbrms in the wholly alternate leaves, tin- longer uairow leatlefs, 
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