504 HYDROPHYLLACEiE. Nemoplula. 



each lobe ; its very broad internal scales hirsute on the free edge : seeds globular, 

 nearly smooth, Avith a very prominent nipple-like caruncle. — Lindl. in Jour. Hort. 

 Soc. iii. 319, & fig. ; Paxt. Mag. xvi. t. G ; Fl. Serres, v. t. 431. 



Common through the western and middle portions of the State. Corolla over an inch, but less 

 than 2 inches in diameter. 



4. N. insignis, Dougl. Leaves pinnately parted into 7 to 9 oblong and some- 

 times 2 - 3-lobed small divisions : corolla bright clear blue ; its internal scales short 

 and roundish, partly free, hirsute with short hairs : seeds oval, somewhat corrugated 

 or tuberculate. — Benth. Hydrophyll. in Linn. Trans, xvii. 275 ; Eot. Eeg. t. 1713 ; 

 Lot. Mag. t. 3485. iV^. Menziesii, var., Hook, & Arn. Bot. Beechey, 372. 



Common in low or damp grounds, displaying its bright blue flowers from the earliest spring. 

 Corolla from over an inch down to little over half that diameter. 



5. N. Menziesii, Hook. & Arn. Smaller than the preceding, and the leaves 

 less divided : corolla from light blue to nearly white, and sprinkled with dark dots 

 or spots, at least towards the centre, or (in cultivation) the spots confiuent into a 

 brownish purple eye ; its scales narrow and wholly adherent by one edge, the other 

 edge densely ciliate : seeds oval or oblong, either even or more or less tuberculate 

 when ripe. — Bot. Beechey, 152 & 372 (excl. var. /3). N. limjiora, Fischer «& Meyer, 

 Sert. Petrop. t. 8. N. 2iedimculata, Benth. 1. c. ; small-llowered form. N. atomaria, 

 Fischer & Meyer, 1. c. ; Bot. Eeg. t. 1940; Bot. Mag. t. 3774. N. discoidaUs, Fl. 

 Serres, ii. t. 75, a cultivated form with large dark eye to the corolla. 



Low or shady gi'ounds, not uncommon. Corolla from half an inch to near an inch in diameter. 



* % * Upj)er leaves often alternate and the lower opposite, mostly longer than the 

 peduncles, and slender-jMioled : flowers small : ovules only 4 : seeds from 1 ^o 4 : 

 caruncle mostly deciduous or evanescent. 



6. N. parviflora, Dougl. Slender and weak, or procumbent : leaves pinnately 

 5 - 9-parted or cleft, or sometimes many only 3 - 5-lobed ; the divisions obovate or 

 oblong, obtuse : corolla light blue or whitish, 3 to 5 lines in diameter, somewhat 

 campanulate, but the lobes longer than the tube, its internal appendages oblong, 

 wholly adherent by one edge, glabrous or nearly so. — Benth. 1. c. N. parviflora 

 Sc N. pedunculata (not of Benth.), Hook. Fl. ii. 79. N. heterophylla, Fischer & 

 Meyer, 1. c, a rather large-flowered form. 



Low and shady grounds throughout the State, and north to British Columbia : veiy variable in 

 size and foliage. Forms with larger and less lobed leaves, all the upper ones alternate, have been 

 mistaken for N. inicrocalyx, of the southern Atlantic States ; which has minute calyx-appendages, 

 and the smaller corolla destitute of scales within, its lobes shorter than the tube. 



N. BREViFLORA, Gray {N. imrviflora, Watson, Bot. King Exp., as to his specimens), collected 

 in the mountains of Northern Utah by Watson, and in the adjacent Snake Country by Tol- 

 mie, may reach the northeastern borders of the State. It is distinguished from N. imrviflora 

 by the oblong-lanceolate acute and entire divisions of the 3- 5-parted leaves, a much larger calyx 

 in fruit (3 lines long), and from all by the broadly campanulate corolla being decidedly shorter 

 than the calyx, in the manner of Ellisia. The calyx-appendages are conspicuous. In Watson's 

 specimens the leaves are all alternate, in Tolmie's all that are cleveloped are opposite. 



3. ELLISIA, Linn. 



Calyx 5-parted, stellately enlarging and more foliaceous under the fruit, the 

 sinuses destitute of appendages. Corolla either narrowly or broadly campanulate, 

 mostly short in proportion to the calyx ; the internal appendages at base minute or 

 obsolete ; the lobes in the Californian species usually one outside and one inside in 

 tlie bud. Stamens and style shorter than the corolla : filaments naked : anthers 

 oval or cordate. Ovary, capsule, &c., nearly as in the preceding. — N'orth American 

 annuals, ours commonly germinating in autumn and flowering from early spring. 



