WATERLEAF FAMILY. Hydrophyllaceae. 



Baby Blue-eyes. These are exce edingly charming little 

 Mariana ' plants, with slender, weak, hairy stems, 



Nemophila insignis varying a good deal in height, but usually 

 Blue and white l ow and spreading, and pretty, light 



California green ' S ft ' hairy folia g e sprinkled with 



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. 



Baby Blue-eyes S * S much like the last ' but ^ is a 

 Nemophila 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, 



CaUforria with Hght blue corollas usually 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 

 mophfla N< corollas oddly and prettily marked. The 



Nemophila weak, hairy stems, from three to twelve 



macuiata inches long, are usually spreading and the 



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



California The flowers are about an inch acr SS, with 



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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