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subtended by an involucral bract, yellow, caducous, pistillate, tube 
1™™ long, bearing a broad 1™™ long notched ligule: style arms 
exceeding the ligule, recurved, acute: disk flowers perfect, tubular, 
light yellow and caducous, 2™™ long, the upper half inflated, bearing 
4 obtuse teeth: anthers well included, o.5™™ long, rather broad, 
bases truncate, each with a very prominent apical appendage; fila- 
ments thread-like, scarcely longer than the anther: style barely 
exceeding the corolla, its arms subcompressed, recurved, 
short, obtuse or truncate at apex: achenes subterete, 5™™ long, black 
when mature, finely rugose, dotted with sessile yellowish brown 
glands subtended by short setae; pappus of 2 or 3 paleaceous scab- 
rous awns, usually persistent. 
ype specimen no. 4437, collected in May 1903, on Cedar Mountain of the 
Mount Hamilton Range, Alameda County, California. 
This distinct species inhabits a steep shaded ravine of fertile soil, and forms 
a tangled mass with its numerous decumbent branches. Not observed elsewhere, 
and evidently very rare. 
~»Nemophila Fremontii, n. sp.—Delicate annual: stems procum- 
bent or prostrate, branched, subglabrous or sparsely retrorsely pubes- 
cent, 10 to 30°" in length: radical leaves similar to the lower cauline 
ones, frequently forming a rosette, 3°™ long including the 1.5°™ long 
strigose petiole; blade membranous, ovate or oblong in outline, 
usually oddly pinnate with two pairs of nearly divided lobes or 
the uppermost merely sinuate, sparsely pubescent on both sides, 
paler beneath; the lobes nearly as broad as long, rounded, finely 
mucronate: flowers solitary, upon slender flexuose usually recurved 
2°™ Jong peduncles which are clothed with retrorse bristles: calyx 
persistent, campanulate, 3™™ long, the basal one-third united, equal- 
ing or exceeding the corolla, pubescent with fine bristle-like hairs; 
sepals oblong, obtuse or acutish, foliaceous, with a short blunt 
recurved appendage from each sinus: corolla white, urn-shaped, 
its lobes becoming reflexed, at most 3™™ long, 5-cleft, the basal 
appendages quite obsolete; petals hyaline, ovate to oblong or obovate, 
obtuse, sparsely ciliate on the edges above the middle: anthers 5, 
alternate with the petals, erect, quite a little shorter than the corolla; 
filaments inserted half way down on the corolla tube, glabrous, 1™™ 
in length; anthers 0.3™™ long, comparatively broad, apex obtuse, 
