214 [Tydrophyllacee—Nemophala. 
2. N. maculdta.—Leaves very hairy, pinnatifid, with rounded 
acute or obtuse lobes. This has large white flowers with a 
violet-purple blotch on each lobe of the corolla. 
3. WV. atomaria.—Leaves pinnatifid. Flowers white speckled 
with blue or chocolate, hairy within at the base. There 
are several garden varieties, differing in the colouring of 
the flowers; as, white with a black centre, pale blue with black 
centre, and blue with white and blue speckled centre. JN. 
discoidalis is a variety of garden origin of the foregoing, 
having rather smaller purple brown flowers edged with white. 
N. aurita has the pinnate hairy leaves produced at the base 
in two lateral ear-like lobes which embrace thestem. Flowers 
pwple-violet. MV. phacelioides is a more foliaceous plant in 
which the more or less bipinnatifid leaves are broadest in the 
middle and narrowed into a short petiole at the base. Flowers 
blue with a light eye. 
Phactha congésta is an allied erect slightly branching 
annual about 1 foot high with pinnate or pinnatifid leaves 
with sharply toothed lobes and circinate cymes of small purplish 
blue flowers. The calyx is destitute of appendages, and the 
stamens exceed the corolla. 
2, COSMANTHUS. 
North American annuals of procumbent or erect habit. 
Leaves pinnatifid; radical stalked, cauline sessile. Flowers in 
terminal circinate racemes or spikes. This genus is mainly 
distinguished by its fringed corolla, whence the name, from 
coopos, beautiful, and dvOos, a flower. 
1. C. fembridtus.—A somewhat succulent trailing plant with 
angular spreading branches and pinnatifid leaves, the upper 
ones stem-clasping. Flowers violet tinged with white, or 
wholly white. 
2. C. grandiflérus, syn. Eiitoca speciosa.—a tall branching 
tufted species from 3 to5 feet high. Leaves broadly rhomboid. 
Flowers large, violet. (C. viscidus, syn. E. viscida, is a native 
of California, growing about a foot high, with weak branching 
clammy stems and oval or oblong petiolate crenately lobed 
leaves. Flowers deep blue with a spotted pink eye, borne 
in small circinate racemes. 
The species of Litoca proper have entire petals and numerous 
‘smaller seeds, or at least more numerous ovules. £. Menziesii, 
syn, L, multiflora and B. Wrangelidna, are less showy annuals 
