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ing, or tending to bury, the capsules ; corolla white or pale blue, without clots or 

 often black-dotted (rarely with a purple spot at the apex of each lobe) , bowl-shaped, 

 deeply cleft, 1 to 2^2 lines broad ; scales linear, often reduced to hairy lines ; style 

 as long as ovary or longer. 



Damp grassy open slopes or in brush, 10 to 7000 feet, transmontane Sierra Ne- 

 vada from Modoc Co. to eastern Sierra Co.: Sierra Nevada (west slope) from Shasta 

 Co. to Kern Co. ; Coast Ranges from western Siskiyou Co. to San Liiis Obispo Co. ; 

 cismontane Southern California from Santa Barbara Co. to San Diego Co. South 

 to Lower California, east to Nevada, north to British Columbia. Jan. -June. 



Geog. note. — The geographic range of Nemophila pedunculata is more extensive than any 

 other species of its genus, since it occurs from British Columbia through Washington and Oregon 

 to California and western Nevada, thence south into Lower California. In California it is found 

 widely throughout cismontane territory in both valleys and mountains and it is also transmontane 

 on the east side of the Sierra Nevada from Modoc County to Sierra County. It has a wide alti- 

 tudinal range, since it occurs at 10 feet along the coast line and goes up to 7000 feet in the Sierra 

 Nevada. No collections have been made in the transmontane regions of Mono and Inyo counties, 

 nor any in the Mohave and Colorado deserts whose labels as to validity of station may be regarded 

 as fully credible. Although so widely distributed, it is within certain limits remarkably constant, 

 more constant in its characters than any other species. On the basis of herbarium specimens there 

 would appear to be wide gaps in the distribution. Such, however, says K. F. Hoover, is not the 

 case. Field observation is convincing that either by reason of being inconspicuous or by reason 

 of being common it tends to be neglected by most collectors. 



Loos. — Coast Ranges : Yreka, Butler 658 ; Trinity Kiver Valley near the South Fork, Hum- 

 boldt Co., Tracy 7858; Lawrence Creek, near Kneeland Prairie, Humboldt Co., Tracy 6957; 

 Eureka, Tracy 4784; Phillipsville, South Fork Eel River, Tracy 7873; Paskenta, sw. Tehama Co., 

 Constance 4" Morrison 2183; Callayomi Valley, sw. Lake Co., Jepson 17,439; Mt. Diablo, Bower- 

 man 1139; San Francisco, Chandler 1800; Isabel Creek, Mt. Hamilton Range, Chandler 6039; 

 Carmel Valley, Monterey Co., Constance 2051; Hernandez, San Benito Co., Constance 4" Morrison 

 2270; upper Waltham Creek, w. Fresno Co., Jepson 16.159; Cottonwood Caiion, Avenal Ridge, 

 w. Kern Co., Constatice 2093 ; EstreUa Creek, San Luis Obispo Co., Constance 2087. Great Valley : 

 Anderson, Shasta Co., Alice King ; Antioch; Modesto, Hoover 1630. Sierra Nevada (west slope) : 

 Hatchet Mt., Shasta Co., Constance 2338; Red Clover Valley (2 mi. s.) ; Clear Creek, Butte Co., 

 Better 13,606; Fallen Leaf Lake, Eldorado Co., Ottley 809a; Stony Creek, Amador Co., Hansen 

 1522; Avery (3 mi. w.), Calaveras Co., Tracy 5716; Jamesto-\vn, Tuolumne Co., A. L. Grant 640; 

 Mariposa Creek, Mariposa Co., Constance 2127 ; betw. Oak Flat and Badger, Tulare Co., H. P. 

 Kellcy ; Hobo Hot Sprs., lower Kern River Caiion, Constance. Sierra Nevada (transmontane) 

 from Modoc Co. to eastern Sierra Co.: Fort Bidwell, ne. Modoc Co., Manning 107; Forestdale, 

 sw. Modoc Co., If. S. Baker; Susanville (5 mi. sw.), Ferris; Sierra Valley, Lemmon. Cismontane 

 S. Cal. : Frazier Mt., n. Ventura Co., Epling 1784 ; San Miguelito Canon, Santa Barbara Co., Muns 

 10,265; Santa Cruz Isl., T. Brandegee; Bear Valley, San Bernardino Mts., Parish 1842; Witch 

 Creek, San Diego Co., Chandler 5022. 



Refs. — Nemophila peddnculata Dougl. ; Benth., Trans. Linn. Soc. 17:275 (1837), type from 

 Cal., Douglas; Chandler, Bot. Gaz. 34:207, t. 3 (1902) ; Jepson, Man. 813 (1925). Viticella pe- 

 dunculata Mcbr., Contrib. Gray Herb. 59: 32 (1919). N. parviflora var. pluriovulata Torr. ; 

 Wats., Bot. King 249 (1871), based on N. pedunculata Benth. N. sepulia Parish, Erythea 7:93 

 (1899), type loc. Bear Valley, San Bernardino Mts., Parish 3782; Jepson, Man. 813 (1925). 

 N. pedunculata var. sepulta Nels. & Mcbr., Bot. Gaz. 65:65 (1918). Viticella pedunculata var. 

 sepulta Mcbr., I.e. N. memiesii var. minutiflora Suksd., Deut. Bot. Monat. 18:133 (1900), type 

 loc. Bingen, Wash., Suksdorf. N. minutiflora Suksd., W. Am. Sci. 14:32 (1903). N. sepulta var. 

 minutiflora Brand; Engler, Pflzr. 4=^^:52 (1913). N. humifusa Kell. ; Eastw., Bull. Torr. Club 

 28 : 141, pi. 15, tig. 1 (1901), type loc. San Francisco region, Kellogg. N. pedunculata f. humifusa 

 Brand, I.e. 53. N. nana Eastw., i.e. 28:151, pi. 17, fig. 13 (1901), type loc. betw. Upper Lake and 

 Bartlett Sprs., u. Lake Co., Eastwood. N. exigua Eastw., I.e. 28:157, pi. 19, fig. 24 (1901), tvpe 

 loc. Stony Creek, Amador Co., Hansen 1522. N. alata Eastw., i.e. 28:158, pi. 20, fig. 26 (19()1), 

 type loc. Clear Creek, Butte Co., Brown 173. N. densa Howell, Fl. Nw. Am. 466 (1901), "Wash, 

 to Cal." N. sepulta var. densa Brand, Univ. Cal. Publ. Bot. 4:211 (1912). N. pedunculata var. 

 deiisa Nels. & Mcbr., Bot. Gaz. 65:66 (1918). N. erosa Suksd., West Am. Sci. 14:33 (1903), type 

 loc. Columbia River, Clarke Co., Wash., Suksdorf 2315. N. peduncxilata f. erosa Brand; Engler, 

 Pflzr. 4-^^:53 (1913). N. pedunculata f. chandlcri Brand, I.e., type loc. Rockland, Klickitat Co., 

 Wash., Suksdorf 2638 (first cited collection). N. insularis Eastw., Proc. Cal. Acad. ser. 4, 21 :282 

 (1935), type loc. San Nicolas Isl., Howell 8213. 



7. N. parviflora Dougl. Woodland Nemophila. Stems usually ascending, 

 sometimes decumbent, freely branching and usually matted, % to 214 feet long; 

 herbage thinly hispid, the hairs on the leaves appressed; leaf -blades suborbicular 



