WATERLEAF FAMILY. Hydrophyllaceae, 



These are exceedingly charming little 

 Baby Blue-eyes 

 Mariana plants, with slender, weak, hairy stems, 



Nemophilainsignis varying a good deal in height, but usually 

 Blue and white low and spreading, and pretty, light 



green, soft, hairy foliage, sprinkled with 



ia . 



many lovely flowers, an inch or more 



across, with hairy calyxes and sky-blue corollas, which are 

 clear white in the center and more or less specked with 

 brown, with ten hairy scales in the throat. The blue of 

 their bright little faces is always wonderfully brilliant, but 

 they are variable and are usually deeper in color and rather 

 smaller in the South. This is one of the commonest kinds 

 of Nemophila in California and it is a general favorite. 

 It is called Mariana by the Spanish Californians. 



This is much like the last, but it is a 

 Baby Blue-eyes 

 Nemdphila taller and more slender plant, usually 



intermedia about ten inches high. The lovely deli- 



Blue and white ca te flowers are less than an inch across, 

 Summer with light blue corollas, usua lly shading to 



white at the center and delicately veined 

 with blue, or speckled with purple dots. This grows among 

 the underbrush. 



These are charming flowers, their 



Spotted Ne- corollas oddly and prettily marked. The 



mophila 



Nemophila weak, hairy stems, from three to twelve 



macul&ia inches long, are usually spreading and the 



White and purple leaves are opposite, hairy, and light green. 



Summer The fl owers are a bout an inch across, with 



California 



hairy calyxes and white corollas, which are 



prettily dotted with purple and usually have a distinct 

 indigo spot at the tip of each petal, which gives an unusual 

 effect. The filaments are lilac and the anthers and pistil 

 are whitish. This is common in meadows around Yosemite 

 and in other places in the Sierras at moderate altitudes. 



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