1902] A REVISION OF THE GENUS NEMOPHILA 2II 



Plant usually weak, though often fleshy: branches decumbent or 

 ascending, 5 to 35'''^ long, sparingly hairy: cotyledons spatulate: 

 leaves (all but the lowest) alternate, 2 to 5"^"" long, triangular- 

 ovate in outline, deeply pinnately parted into mostly 5 oblong, 

 falcate, entire or i or 2-toothed divisions : peduncles shorter 

 than the leaves : calyx-lobes oblong- to linear-lanceolate, 2 to 

 ^mm long in flower, enlarging greatly in fruit, nearly or quite 

 glabrous except for the strongly ciliate margins ; appendages 

 proportionately broader, less than half as long, reflexed : corolla 

 mostly tubular, not exceeding the calyx, about 2"""° across, white 

 or purplish ; scales narrow, trapeziform, fimbriate : style scarcely 

 longer than the ovary, cleft only at the tip: capsule globular, 3 

 to 5"^^ in diameter: seeds i per capsule, globular, 2 to 3.5 

 in diameter, pitted and minutely roughened, scaly, often blood- 

 red ; caruncle cap-like (?), evanescent. 



Rooky mountains from Utah to Montana and westward to 



mm 



Washington and Oregon. Not yet found in California, but to be looked 

 for in Modoc and Siskiyou counties. 



Specimens examined : Washington: Yakima region, ^r^?^^/*?^^^; Falcon 

 valley, Suksdorf; "Washington/* F^^^y no. 403. 



Howell 



Steins mts., Leiberg no. 2498. 



Montana : Summit G, N. Ry., Williams no. 170 ; Bridger mts., Rydberg 

 &^ Bessey no, 4860. 



Idaho: Coeur d'AIene mts., Leibergno, 1062; Latah co., /*/><?/-; Craig 

 mts., Hejiderson no. 2748. 



Wyoming: Yellowstone park, Nelson no. 5566, Tweedy no. \oi\ Teton 

 forest reservation, Brandegee, 



Utah : Bear river canon. Watson {King exped,) no. 869 (type). 



The type was collected at Bear river canon, Utah, July, 1869, by Sereno 

 Watson, as no. 869 of the Clarence King expedition, and was determined by 

 Torrey (not by Watson, as Gray implies in his citations) as N, parviflora. It 

 IS in the United States National Herbarium. 



17. N. EXiLis Eastwood, Bull. Torn Bot. Club 28 : 148. IQOI- 

 ^.flaccida Eastwood, /. c, 149. N. inaequalis Eastwood, /. c. 

 M9- N. Jiispida Eastwood, /. c. 152. N. divaricata Eastwood, 

 ^' ^' ^11^ N. t€7i€ra Eastwood, /. c, 153. N. gracilis Eastwood, 

 /. c. 154. ^^ nemoreiisis Eastwood, /. c. 155. N, glauca East- 



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