NOTES ON THE GENUS NEMOPHILA. 141 
This may be the original N. Menzies, but more complete 
material would be necessary before hazarding an opinion. 
All that at present seems certain regarding the name N. 
Menziesii is that it was applied to some member of this 
group and that it was the first so applied. The original de- 
scription covers very well the whole group and this taken in 
conjunction with the close resemblance of the different mem- 
bers seems to render it advisable to use the name N. Men- 
ziesii, H. & A., to designate the whole group and to consider 
the divisions of the group as sub-species. We can thus ap- 
ply thenames N. insignis, Dougl., and N. atomaria, F. &. M., 
to the plants which originally received those names. The 
common plant of the counties north of the Bay has never 
been properly segregated and is thus left without a name, a 
lack which I have supplied below. 
N. intermedia. From 6 to 12 inches long, with ascending 
branches from the base, more or less hairy, leaves pinnately 
parted into 5 to 9 entire, or 2- to 5-lobed, divisions, petioles 
somewhat widened at the base and ciliate, the upper all oppo- 
site; corolla .75 to 1 inch wide, bright blue to white, distinctly 
blue-veined, more or less punctate with dull purple dots; 
inter-staminal scales extending nearly to the sinuses, long, 
narrow, hairy and with expanded tips; ovary rounded, ovules 
12 to 24 
This plant is included with several others under the name 
of N. Menziesii, H. & A., by Gray in the Flora of North 
America, ii, 156; it is part of N. insignis as defined in the 
“Botany of the Bay Region.” Living plants have been 
examined from the counties of San Francisco, Marin, 
Sonoma, Lake, Alameda and Contra Costa. The range of 
this plant is more northerly and westerly than that of N. in- 
signis which prefers hot localities and especially sandy soils. 
N. instanis, Doug]. In habit very like the above but less 
succulent and generally more hairy, leaves somewhat more 
divided; calyx with broader ovate-lanceolate divisions and 
shorter and broader appendages, shining and distinctly 
veined; corolla one inch or more broad or the imperfect 
