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at all clammy: leaves linear-filiform, rigid, entire or with a 
few acerose segments toward the base: floral bracts subulate 
from a broad and more or less acerose-cleft base: segments 
of the calyx subequal, triangular subulate, entire: corolla 
slender, deep blue or purple: capsule imperfectly 2-celled, 
4-valved, being both loculicidally and septicidally dehiscent, 
4—8-seeded. 
Lower and middle mountains of the central part of the 
State, east of the Sacramento and San Joaquin. The 
interesting character of the capsule appears in very mature 
specimens collected by the present writer at Colfax, Sep- 
tember, 1883. 
15. N. mirracarpa. Size of the last but not so slender, 
depressed and diffuse, hirsute-pubescent, the inflorescence 
glandular; leaves rigid and pungent, with about 2 pairs of 
acerose 2-parted basal segments and a lanceolate acerose- 
toothed terminal one: bracts few and like the leaves: 2 
segments of the calyx with a spinulose tooth on each side, 3 
entire and shorter: corolla unknown: capsule dehiscent by 
4 sutures from the base to near the middle, the indehiscent 
summit marked by a central apiculation and 4 prominent 
radiating lines, 1-celled, 1-seeded; seed attached to a mere 
placental intrusion of the base of one of the false valves, 
large, clavate-oblong, one side formed into an apparent exca- 
vation by an involution of the margin (as in some Phacelias) 
and showing a central ridge ; testa when wetted developing 
a thick and dense gelatinous mass. 
Obtained somewhere in Lake County, California, in the 
summer of 1884, by Mrs. Curran. 
16. N.rnoLrrEma. Erect-spreading, a span to a foot high, 
with rather large capitate flower-clusters and slender naked 
flagelliform branches radiating from beneath the earlier 
clusters, themselves ending each with an inflorescence, only. 
the short and erect main stem leafy: leaves an inch long, 
glabrous, linear-filiform, entire or with one or two pairs of 
