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Leaf Lake, Eldorado Co., Ottley 809 ; betw. Strawberry sta. and Belle Mdw., Tuolumne Co., Jepson 

 6489; Hog Ranch ranger sta., Hetcli-Hetchy Valley, A. L. Grant 802; Crane Flat, Mariposa Co., 

 Jepson 10,439 ; Lower Soquel Mdws., Madera Co., Constance 2371; Huckleberry Mdw., near Grant 

 Park, Newlon 211; Greenhorn Pass, Greenhorn Mts., Kern Co., Purpu-s 5706. Tehaebapi Mts., 

 Basse 4" Davidson 1717. Cisraontane S. Cal.: Mt. Pinos, n. Ventura Co., Ball 6395; Bluff Lake, 

 San Bernardino Mts., Munn 10,433 ; Tamarack Valley, San Jacinto Mts., Ball 2406. 



Refs. — Nemophila spatttlata Cov., Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. 4:156 (1893), type loc. Whit- 

 ney Mdws., e. Tulare Co., Coville 1671; Jepson, Man. 813, fig. 783 (1925). Viticella spatulata 

 Mcbr., Contrib. Gray Herb. 59:32 (1919). A', inconspieua Eastw., Bull. Torr. Club 28:144, t. 15, 

 fig. 6 (1901), type loc. Bearskin Mdws., near Grant Park, Eastwood, not N. inconspieua Henderson 

 (1900). N. pratensis Eastw., I.e., 29:474 (1902), a 

 renaming. N. humilis Eastw., I.e. 28:150, t. 17, fig. 

 12 (1901), type loc. betw. Summit sta., Nevada Co., 

 and Summit Soda Sprs., Placer Co., Eastwood. Viti- 

 cella huviilis Mcbr., I.e. N. congdonii Eastw., I.e. 28: 

 150, t. 17, fig. 12 (1901), type loc. "Tioga Road," 

 probably in Tuolumne Co., Congdon. 



4. N. pulchella Eastw. Blue-eyed Jen- 

 nie. (Fig. 396.) Stem branching, 8 to 16 

 inches long; herbage thinly hirsute; leaf- 

 blades mostly ovate to ovatish in outline, i/4 

 to 1 inch long, sinuately pinnate-divided into 

 5 to 7 remote lobes, the lobes suborbicular to 

 ovate, 1/2 to 4 lines long, often petiolulate, en- 

 tire or 3-lobulate ; upper leaves entire or f ew- 

 lobed; pedicels spreading or deflexed, % to 

 1^2 inches long; calyx-appendages minute or 

 even obsolete; corolla deep blue to violet, 

 sometimes white, rotate or even reflexed a 

 little from the center, 2i/2 to 4 lines wide; 

 scales broadly linear, wholly adnate, ciliate or 

 glabrous, or reduced to narrow short-hairy 

 bands ; stamens nearly equaling corolla-lobes ; 

 capsule globose-ovoid, hirsute. 



Moist thickets or in open places of the foot- 

 hills and mountains, 500 to 5000 feet : Sierra 

 Nevada from Fresno Co. to Kern Co. Apr.- 

 June. 



Loes.— Big Sandy Valley, e. base Black Mt., 

 Fresno Co., Hoover 3464 ; Tollhouse, Fresno Co., Con- 

 stance 2210: betw. Dunlap and Millwood, Fresno Co., 



Jepson 2769 ; betw. Oak Flat and Badger, Tulare Co., B. P. Eelley; betw. Cedar Creek and Colony 

 Mill, Tulare Co., Jepson 622 ; betw. Milo and Springville, Tulare Co., Constance 2123 ; Greenhorn 

 Mts., Kern Co., Ball # Babcoclc 5027. 



Var. gracilis Constance. Leaf-blades sinuately pinnate-divided, or (especially the upper) 

 merely pinnately cleft or lobed, or entire, commonly with 2 or 3 such leaf -types on one individual ; 

 corolla white, rotate to basin-shaped, 1 to 3 lines broad. — Rocky places or in oak shade. Sierra 

 Nevada foothills from Madera Co. to Kern Co. ; Tehachapi Mts. ; South Coast Ranges from western 

 Stanislaus Co. and Monterey Co. to southwestern Kern Co. (In habit and leaf-form it is strikingly 

 like N. pulchella, but the flowers are more nearly those of N. parviflora. — R. P. Hoover.) 



Locs. — Kelshaw Corners (3 mi. sw.), Madera Co., Constance 2200; Little Dry Creek near 

 Sparkville, Fresno Co., Jepson 15,140; Auberry (6 mi. sw.), Fresno Co., Constance 2207; Squaw 

 Valley, Fresno Co., Constance 2225; Exeter (2 mi. e.), Tulare Co., Constance 2101; Hobo Hot 

 Sprs., lower Kern Canon, Kern Co., Constance 2117. Tehachapi Mts.: Girard sta., Beller 7718. 

 South Coast Ranges: Las Garzas Canon, w. Stanislaus Co., Boover 4220; GabUan Range; Tres 

 Pinos Creek, San Benito Co., Constance ^- Boover 2067; Jamesburg (5 mi. n.), Carmel Valley, 

 Constance 4" Boover 2050; San Emigdio Canon, sw. Kern Co., Davy 2070. 



Refs.— Nemophila pulchella Eastw., Bull. Torr. Club 28:157, pi. 19, fig. 25 (1901), type 

 loc. "Sequoia Mills" (Millwood), Fresno Co., Eastwood: Jepson, Man. 814, fig. 784 (1925). 

 N. exilis var. pulchella Chandler, Bot. Gaz. 34:214 (1902). Viticella pulchella Mcbr., Contrib. 

 Gray Herb. 59:31 (1919). Var. gracilis Constance, Univ. Cal. Publ. Bot. 19:394 (1941). N. gror 



Fig. 396. Nemophila pulchella 

 Eastw. a, fl. branchlet, X 1 ; b, gland, 

 X 50. 



