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The available material of this species is unsatisfactory and it needs study 

 in the field. Its affinity seems to be closest with .V. maculaia, from which it 

 is readily distinguished by its smaller flowers, destitute of the purple spot at 

 the tip of each corolla-lobe. It inhabits higher altitudes than that species. 



Sierra Nevada mountains fr(xm ?ilARiPOSA county northward. 



Specimens examined: California : Emi<:jrant gap, Placer co., J/. E. 

 Jones: Summit, Vi-xz^x zo., Eastwood {y\}^€)\ Deer Park inn, Placer co., C 

 /. Fox, Jr.: Tioga road and Hetchy Hetchy road, Tuolumne co., Congdon ; 

 Hogan mt. and Konitz's place, Mariposa co., Congdon. 



ry[:)e in the herbarium of the California Academy of Sciences, San Fran- 

 cisco, collected '* on the trail between Summit and Summit Soda springs, in 

 Placer county, June 9, 1898,** by Miss Alice Eastwood, who states that it 

 grew on a bank where the ground was still wet from the recently melted snow. 



N. Mexziesii H. & a., Bot. Beech. Voy. 152. 1833, not of 

 Syn. Fl., Bot. Cal., etc. — N. insignis Benth., Trans. Hort. Soc. n. s. 

 i:4/9- 1835- N, liiiiflora F. & M., Sert. Petrop. fol, & t. 8. 

 1846. N. hetcrophylla F. & M., /. c. N. modesta Kellogg", Proc. 

 Cal. Acad. 7 193. 1877. -^- uitenncdia Bioletti, Erythea 3 '• Ml- 

 1895. N, Brandegei Eastwood, Bull, Torr, Bot. Club 29:471. 

 1902. N, macrocarpa, Eastwood, /, r.— Branches slender or 

 stout and succulent, ascending, mostly 10 to 25'''° long, more or 

 less hirsute-pubescent with spreading or appressed, not always 

 retrorse hairs: cotyledons usuall}^ spatulate: leaves mostly oppo- 

 site, the lower 4 to 9^"^ long, pinnately divided into 5 to 9 oblong, 

 ovate, or suborbicular, mostly 2 or 3-lobed or -toothed divisions ; 

 upper leaves reduced and less divided in proportion to their dis- 

 tance from the root: peduncles slender, spreading, usually twice 

 as long as the leaves: calyx-lobes lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, 

 4 to 10^"^ long; appendages lanceolate to linear, half as long or 

 less: corolla pelviform, divided about three-fourths the way to 

 the base, i to 3.5^^ across, from light to deep blue, veined deeper 

 blue or purple, lighter-colored and often dotted, but seldom hairy 

 toward the center; scales varying from broad and wholly adher- 

 ent to narrow and part free, laciniate, ciliate or entire, often 

 crisped: style 2 to 4 times as long as the ovary, parted for 

 about a third its length: capsule elongated-globular, 5 to 10^^ 

 in diameter: seeds 5 to 25 per capsule, I to 2°''" long, oblong- 



