204 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [September 



Santa Ysabel, ^/^/^r-?c?;z/ ^2iX\Y€i\y^t, Brandegee ; RosQd^le, A drams ; Lerdo, 

 Bra?ideg^e; Tulare, Daij no. 3102 ; Kaweah, /?. Hopping no. 166 ; Grape- 



Woohey 



H. 



M. S. Baker; Penn valley, Nevada cc, Jepson; Sutter co., Jepson; Chico, 

 Winifred Paine ; ''California," Thomas Bridges, t^o, 170. 



The type was collected in California by the botanists of the Beechey Voy- 

 age, all of whose collecting was done at San Francisco and Monterey. It is in the 

 herbarium at the Royal Botanic Garden, Kew, and is said to have no flowers^ 



^ 8. N. Menziesii atomaria (F. & M.) Chandler, comb. nov. — 

 A^. atomaria F. & M., Ind. Sem. Hort. Petrop. 2:42. 1835. 



A^. 



Men 



N, 



Jepson, Fl. West. Mid. Cal. 434. 1901. N. 



Jepson l,c, (a garden escape). N.Joh 



Torr. Bot. Club 29 : 472. 1902. — More succulent anci less 

 pubescent than the type, often nearly glabrous: calyx-lobes 

 shorter and broader; corolla rather smaller, somewhat more 

 deeply divided, white or pale blue, dotted or rarely only veined 

 dark blue-purple or black, hairy at the center; scales very nar- 

 row, usually hairy, scarcely or not at all enlarged or free at the 

 tip, often reduced to a mere line of hairs. 



Some authors find the style more deeply divided than in the type. 



This variety intergrades with the type in every character and the varia- 

 tions are not always concomitant, so that there are frequently specimens {e, g.r 

 Chandler no. 1276, Humboldt co., Cal.) which may be referred almost equally 

 well to either. Plants which in every other respect answer to var. atomana 



L^ 



N, 



Monterey, Cal.) have the scales reduced to a mere line of hairs. Between 

 these extremes there is every variation. 



In a series of a half dozen living specimens from Kenwood, Cal., M^ S. 

 Baker^'C^zi^ were several instructive series. In color and marking of corolla 

 three distinct steps were observed on as many plants: A^ flowers white, dotted 

 with blue to the edge ; B, flowers slightly bluish, veined deeper blue, dotted 

 toward the center ; C, flowers bright blue, veined darker blue, white (but not 

 dotted) at center. In the matter of succulence, a series of three plants 

 showed a decided increase of pubescence and an approximately correspond- 

 ing decrease of succulence as the type was approached. The shape of the 

 calyx-lobes varied less uniformly. 



5 Bioletti, Erythea 3 : 140. 



