66 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [JANUARY 
1900; N. sepulta Parish, var. minutiflora (Suksd.) Brand, Pflanzen- 
reich iv. 251:52. 1913.—BRAND distinguishes this plant from N. 
pedunculata by the fewer-seeded capsules. The latter species 
normally has 3-6 ovules to each placenta, although frequently only 
2~4 seeds are matured. A specific instance in which this occurs is 
Baker 914 from King’s Canyon, Nevada, upon which BRAND bases 
his V. pedunculata, var. Bakeri Brand (loc. cit. 54). Unfortunately, 
at least some specimens of this collection show only capsules that 
mature two seeds. This great variation in the number of seeds 
matured makes it extremely difficult to distinguish the 4-ovuled and 
6-12-ovuled forms, since they differ in no other respect and occupy 
the same range. In fact, they may even grow in close proximity, 
as illustrated by Chandler 6039 and 6037, both from Isabel Creek, 
Santa Clara County, California, the first representing the typical 
form and the latter the fewer-ovuled var. sepulta. Sometimes the 
variety has slightly larger flowers that are more or less dotted with 
dark markings. This form also occurs throughout the range of the 
typical state and may be known as 
NEMOPHILA PEDUNCULATA Dougl., var. densa (Howell), n 
comb.—N. densa Howell, Fl. N. W. Am. 1:466. 1901; N. sepulia 
Parish, var. densa (Howell) Brand, Joc. cit. 53; N. nana Eastw. 
Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 28:151. 1901; N. alata Eastw., loc. cit. 158; 
N. reticulata Suksd. West Amer. Sci. 14:32. 1903. 
NEMOPHILA HETEROPHYLLA F. and M., var. tenera (Eastw.), n. 
comb.—JN. tenera Eastw. Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 28:153. 1901; 
N. heterophylla F. and M., subvar. tenera (Eastw.) Brand, Pflanzen- 
reich iv. 251:56. 1913; N. memorensis Eastw., var. glauca (Eastw.) 
Brand, Joc. cit. 57; N. fallax Eastw., loc. cit. 156.—CHANDLER 
(Bor. Gaz. 34:211. 1902), in his very practical revision of this © 
genus of extremely variable plants, included in one “species’’ the 
forms listed, together with N. nemorensis Eastw., which BRAND 
(loc. cit. 56) retains as a species distinct from N. heterophylla, 
including in it all specimens of this group which have linear or 
minute corolla appendages. Specimens with broad, often promi- 
nent, appendages in the corolla he refers to N. heterophylla. In 
doing this, however, he fails to show that the degree of development 
of the scales in the corolla possesses any value for purposes of 
