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HTDROPHYLLACEAE 



2. N. menziesii H. & A. Babt Blue-eyes. (Fig. 394.) Stems branching from 

 the base, slender or succulent, diffuse or ascending, 3 to 18 inches long; herbage 

 more or less hirsute-pubescent ; leaf -blades oblong in outlme, % to I14 inches long, 

 pinnately divided into 5 to 9 lobes, the lobes entire or 2 or 3-toothed or -incised; 

 petioles ^4 to lYz times as long ; peduncles 2 to 4 times as long as leaves ; calyx-lobes 



Fig. 394. Nemophila menziesu H. & A. o, habit, X 1 ; 

 h, scales and sect, of corolla base, X 6. 



2 to 5 lines long ; corolla light to deep blue, often veined with purple, lighter and 

 often dotted toward center, but seldom hairy, basin-shaped, divided about % of 

 the way to base, Yo to li/i inches wide; scales broad and wholly adherent to narrow 

 and partly free, often enlarged at tip, laciniate, ciliate or entire. 



Moist flats in valleys and on hillsides, 20 to 2000 (or 5000) feet: Coast Ranges 

 from western Tehama Co. and Mendocino Co. to San Luis Obispo Co. ; throughout 

 the Great Valley and Sierra Nevada foothills ; Tehachapi Mts. ; western Mohave 

 Desert; cismontane and intramontane Southern California. North to southern 

 Oregon. Feb.-Apr. 



