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NEMOPHILA 
Filaments slender. long-exserted, bearded at the middle ; anthers 
linear or oblong, inflexed in the bud. Style slender, long-exsert- 
ed. Seeds 1-4, ovules only four. 
H. capitatum Doug]. Benth in Linn. Trans. xvii, 273 Retrorsely his- 
pid with minute white hairs: stems often tufted. 4-12 inches high from 
a small fascicle of thickened perennial perpendicular roots: one-several- 
leaved, erect in flower, recurving and often prostrate in fruit: leaves long- 
petioled, exceeding the stems, pinnately 5-7-parted or at base divided; 
the lanceolate divisions entire or often 2-3-lobed or 2-3-cleft, all mucron- 
ate-tipped: flowers in a dense capitate cluster: calyx very hispid, parted 
nearly to the base, with linear-oblong, obtuse divisions: corolla blue, but 
little longer than the calyx: filaments twice as long as the corolla; anthers 
oblong, attached near the middle; style equalling the stamens, 2-lobed: 
seed a line in diameter. Under shrubs &c. Brit. Columbia to California 
east of the Cascade Mountains, 
H. occidentale Gray Proc. Am. Acad. x, 314. Pubescent, hirsute, 
or sparingly hispid : stems erect, usually numerous from a fascicle of fleshy- 
fibrous roots, 12-18 inches high: leaves elongated-oblong in general out- 
line, pinnately parted or divided into 7-15 oblong, mostly incised or cleft 
obtuse divisions 1-2 inches long: peduncles rather slender, elongated, often 
surpassing the subtending leaf: cymes mostly dense or capitate: calyx 
deeply parted, its divisions lanceolate and rather obtuse: corolla white to 
violet-purple, 4-5 lines long: anthers oblong-linear. In moist shady places, 
Washington to California. 
Var. Fendleri Gray |. c. | Pubescence mainly hirsute or hispid, not 
at all canescent or cinereous: divisions of the leaves broader, acute or acu- 
minate, incisely serrate: peduncles shorter: cyme rather open: corolla 
white or nearly so. In shaded ravines, Mount Adams Washington to Col- 
orado and New Mexico. 
H. Virginicum L. Sp. 146. Pubescent with short scattered hairs: 
stems few or solitary from a short scaly rootstock, 1-2 feet high: leaves 
very long-petioled, ovate or cordate in outline, 3-5-parted or divided, the 
lobes or divisions 2-4 inches long, ovate-lanceolate to rhombic-ovate, acute 
or acuminate, coarsely incised-toothed, the lowest commonlv 2-cleft, and 
the terminal one often 3-lobed: peduncle elongated, at length surpassing 
the leaves, usually orce or twice forked; cymes at length open: calyx par- 
ted to the very base Into linear and spreading hispid-ciliate acute divisions : 
corolla nearly white, or sometimes deep violet, 3-4 lines long: filaments 
more than twice as long as the corolla; anthers oblong, attached below the 
middle. In rich damp woods, Oregon to Alaska and across the Continent. 
2 NEMOPHILA Nutt. Jour. Acad. Phila’. ii, 179. 
Annuals with mostly opposite and usually pinnatifid leaves, 
and usually large flowers on rather long axillary peduncles. 
Calyx deeply 5-cleft or 5-parted, with a reflexed or spreading ap- 
pendage in each sinus, enlarged in fruit. Corolla rotate or nearly 
campanulate, usually longer than the calyx : the base within most- 
ly with 10 appendages. Stamens shorter than the corolla: anthers 
usually sagittate-oblong, Ovules 4-20. Seeds commonly witha 
deciduous or more persistent caruncle. 
N. Menziesii H. & A. Bot. Beech. 125. Sparingly strigose-pubescent: 
diffusely branched from the base, the branches mostly prostrate, 2-10 
inches long: leaves oblong in outline on rather short winged petioles, 3-9 
parted into rounded obovate lobes 1-2 lines long: peduncles 2-3 inches 
