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1902] A REVISION OF THE GENUS NEMOFHILA 199 



Only very scanty material of this species was accessible. 



Arkansas and Texas. 



Specimen exa?ntned: Texas : Waco, Miss S. A. Trimble, 

 Type locality, Arkansas. 



4. N. KiRTLEYi Henderson, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 27: 350. 

 1900. — Plant weak, diffuse : stems 5 to 20'^"' long, often pur- 

 plish, hispid with spreading or retrorse hairs: cotyledons spatu- 

 late : upper leaves alternate, lower ones opposite, all triangular- 

 ovate in outline, pinnately parted into usually five oblong or 

 ovate, entire or i or 2-toothed divisions: peduncles exceeding 

 the leaves: calyx-lobes lanceolate, 4 to 8"""" long, enlarging in 

 fruit, minutely pubescent and long-ciliate ; appendages lanceo- 

 late to ovate, a third as long or less: corolla pelviform, little 

 exceeding the calyx, i to 2 ^^'^ across, "with violet border and 

 whitish center, conspicuously green-spotted near the junction 

 with the stamens;" scales broad, trapeziform, strongly fimbriate 

 on the free edge: style nearly twice as long as the ovary, cleft 

 for a third of its length: capsule globular or slightly elongated, 

 4 to 7^°^ in diameter: seeds 2 to 4 per capsule, ovoid, 2 to 3 

 long, deeply pitted, the pits covered with deciduous scales; 

 caruncle cap-like, evanescent. 



Idaho and eastern Oregon. May be looked for in northeastern 

 California. 



mm 



Henderson 



Oregon: Pine creek, C7/^/,r/&. 



The type locality is Salmon river hill, beyond Florence, Idaho county 

 Idaho, and the type specimen is in the National Herbarium. 



5. N. maculata Benth., Jour. Hort. Soc. Lond. 3: 319. 1848. 

 Branches ascending or decumbent, 10 to 30*'"' or more long, from 

 almost glabrous to strongly hispid : cotyledons spatulate : leaves 

 opposite, the lower 3 to 5 ^^^^ or more long, pinnately parted into 

 5 to 9 ovate or sub-orbicular, mostly I to 3-lobed divisions ; the 

 upper shorter, usually with but 3 or 5 entire lobes at the tip and 

 a cuneately tapering base, or lanceolate and entire : peduncles 

 surpassing the leaves : calyx-lobes oblong-Ianceolate to ovate, 

 4 to 10 "i"^ long; appendages lanceolate to linear, one fourth to 

 one half as long, reflexed : corolla pelviform, i to 4^"^ across, 



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