314 Hydrophyllacecz Nemophila. 



2. N. maculata. Leaves very hairy, pinnatifid, with rounded 

 acute or obtuse lobes. This has large white flowers with a 

 violet-purple blotch on each lobe of the corolla. 



3. N. atomaria. Leaves pinnatifid. Flowers white speckled 

 with blue or chocolate, hairy within at the base. There 

 are several garden varieties, differing in the colouring of 

 the flowers ; as, white with a black centre, pale blue with black 

 centre, and blue with white and blue speckled centre. N. 

 discoidalis is a variety of garden origin of the foregoing, 

 having rather smaller purple brown flowers edged with white. 



N. aurlta has the pinnate hairy leaves produced at the base 

 in two lateral ear-like lobes which embrace the stem. Flowers 

 purple-violet. N. phacelioldes is a more foliaceous plant in 

 which the more or less bipinnatifid leaves are broadest in the 

 middle and narrowed into a short petiole at the base. Flowers 

 blue with a light eye. 



Phacelia congesta is an allied erect slightly branching 

 annual about 1 foot high with pinnate or pinnatifid leaves 

 with sharply toothed lobes and circinate cymes of small purplish 

 blue flowers. The calyx is destitute of appendages, and the 

 stamens exceed the corolla. 



2. COSMANTHUS. 



North American annuals of procumbent or erect habit. 

 Leaves pinnatifid ; radical stalked, cauline sessile. Flowers in 

 terminal circinate racemes or spikes. This genus is mainly 

 distinguished by its fringed corolla, whence the name, from 

 Koafjios-) beautiful, and avdos, a flower. 



1 . C. fimbriatus. A somewhat succulent trailing plant with 

 angular spreading branches and pinnatifid leaves, the upper 

 ones stem-clasping. Flowers violet tinged with white, or 

 wholly white. 



2. C. grandiflorus, syn. Eiitoca speciosa. A tall branching 

 tufted species from 3 to 5 feet high. Leaves broadly rhomboid. 

 Flowers large, violet. C. viscidus, syn. E. viscida, is a native 

 of California, growing about a foot high, with weak branching 

 clammy stems and oval or oblong petiolate crenately lobed 

 leaves. Flowers deep blue with a spotted pink eye, borne 

 in small circinate racemes. 



The species of Eiitoca proper have entire petals and numerous 

 smaller seeds, or at least more numerous ovules. E. Menziesii^ 

 syn. E. multiflora and E. Wrangdiana, are less showy annuals 



