HYDROPHYLLACEAE. 299 



5-7-divided; divisions ovate, incisely and coarsely cleft and toothed, 3-6 cm. 

 long; lower petioles elongated; inflorescence a rather dense cyme, exceeding the 

 leaves; calyx soft-hispid, deeply 5-parted into lanceolate divisions, without 

 appendages in the sinuses; corolla whitish. 

 In mountain meadows. 



413. NEMOPHILA. 



Diffuse and tender annual herbs; leaves opposite or partly 

 alternate, pinnatifid or lobed; peduncles terminal or lateral, 

 1-flowered, slender; calyx enlarging more or less in fruit, 5-parted, 

 with a reflexed appendage at each sinus; corolla rotate or nearly 

 campanulate, deeply 5-lobed, the throat appendaged more or 

 less with 10 internal scales or plaits; stamens and style shorter 

 than the corolla; ovules 4 or many; capsule 2-valved, ripening 

 1-16 seeds. 



Flowers large, 10-20 mm. broad; peduncles mostly twice as 



long as the leaves. N. atomaria. 



Flowers small, 2-7 mm. broad; peduncles about as long as the 



leaves. 



Corolla tubular; leaves ovate in outline, acutely 5-lobed. N. parviflora. 

 Corolla campanulate; leaves oblong in outline, obtusely 5- 



7-lobed. N. sepulta. 



Nemophila atomaria Fisch. & Meyer. Nearly glabrous; leaves ovate or 

 suborbicular, pinnately 5-9-lobed; peduncles twice as long as the leaves; 

 calyx-lobes ovate-lanceolate; corolla white or pale blue, dotted or veined with 

 black, hairy at the center. 



Douglas County, Oregon, and southward. 



Nemophila parviflpra Dougl. Sterns prostrate or procumbent, 5-15 cm. long; 

 leaves mostly opposite, ovate in outline, pinnately 5-lobed, the lobes acute; 

 peduncles mostly shorter than the leaves, not deflexed in age; corolla short 

 tubular, white, 2-5 mm. broad. 



Common in moist open places. 



Nemophila sepulta Parish. ( N. densa Howell.) Prostrate or decumbent, 

 the branches usually short, 2-5 cm. long; leaves opposite, oblong, pinnately 

 5-7-lobed, the lobes mostly obtuse; peduncles about as long as the leaves, at 

 length deflexed; calyx-lobes lanceolate, 2-5 mm. long; corolla open-campanu- 

 late, white, often dotted with blue specks in the center, 3-7 mm. broad. 



Rare, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, to California. 



Family 86. BORAGINACEAE. BORAGE FAMILY. 

 Mostly rough-hairy herbs; leaves alternate, entire, without 

 stipules; flowers regular, perfect; calyx 5-parted; corolla 5-lobed, 

 sometimes with projecting appendages or swellings (fornices) in 

 the throat; stamens 5, inserted on the corolla- tube ; style 1 ; ovary 

 usually deeply 4-lobed, forming in fruit 4 seed-like nutlets, or 

 separating into two 2-seeded nutlets; nutlets attached by the 

 base or inner angle or face to the receptacle, which is sometimes 

 elongated (the gynobase) ; endosperm none. 



