338 HYDROPHYLLACEAE. 



the way to base, '■_■ to L% in. across, often veined with purple, lighter and 

 often dotted toward center, but seldom hairy; scales from broad and wholly 

 adherenl to narrow and part free, often enlarged at tip, laciniate, ciliate, or 

 entire. — (N. insignia Benth. X. intermedia Bioletti.) 



Common in the Sacramento, San Joaquin and Coast Eange valley floors in 

 moist places and on moist hillsides. Extremely variable. Var. atomaria 

 Chandler. Pale Baby Blue-eyes. More succulent and less pubescent, often 

 nearly glabrous; calyx-lobes shorter and broader; corolla white or pale blue, 

 rather smaller, somewhat more deeply divided, dotted or rarely only veined 

 dark purple or black, hairy at center; scales very narrow or linear, usually 

 hairy, often reduced to a mere line of hairs. — Moist places in the Coast Eanges 

 ( X. atomaria I\ & M. X. venosa Jepson is probably one of the many garden 

 tonus of this variety escaped from cultivation.) 



4. N. pedunculata Dougl. Plant prostrate, or among underbrush lax, spar- 

 ingly pubescent; leaves oblong, 5 to 7-lobed; peduncles shorter than the leaves, 

 strongly deflexed in age, burying the capsules; scales linear, often reduced to 

 hairy lines; style as long as ovary or longer. 



Damp places in the Coast Eanges, not common. 



N. spatulata Coville. Closely related to no. 4, from which it is best dis- 

 tinguished by its leaves; leaves spatulate, 3 to 5-toothed or -lobed at tip, with 

 cuneate base ; corolla often with a purple spot at the tip of each lobe and a 

 few dots at the center; scales small and laciniate, or obsolete; style sometimes 

 scarcely evident. — Southern Sierra Nevada. 



5. N. parviflora Dougl. Small-flowered Nemophila. Stems decumbent 

 or ascending, hispid; leaf -lobes sharp; peduncles shorter than leaves, not de- 

 flexed in age; scales minute, various, but usually half free and laciniate or 

 ciliate; style as long as the ovary or longer. 



Coast Eanges, common. Easily distinguished from the two preceding by the 

 leaves and by the character of the pubescence. Var. quercifolia Chandler. 

 Oak leaf Nemophila. Like the species but with softer more spreading 

 pubescence; leaves with rounded lobes and shallower sinuses, the lower of which 

 are scarcely deeper than the upper; peduncles mostly exceeding the leaves. — 

 Southern Sierra Xevada at low altitudes (X T . quercifolia Eastw.) 



6. N. sepulta Parish. Usually prostrate; branches often strongly angled or 

 winged; leaves oblong, with 5 to 7 oblong lobes; peduncles deflexed in age; 

 corolla open-campanulate, not hairy at center, whitish, often dotted with blue 

 or purple toward the center; scales linear or reduced to hairy lines. 



Coast Eanges and Sierra Nevada. Not common. 



N. HUMELIS Kastw. Ascending or decumbent; leaves spatulate, elliptical or 



lanceolate, shnllowly 3 to 5 -lobed at tip or entire; peduncles not deflexed in 



corolla open-campanulate, whitish, often hairy and dotted with blue or 



purple toward center; scales from broad and half free to mere hairy lines. 



— Sierra Nevada. Not common. 



7. N. exilis Eastw. Small White Nemophila. Erect, ascending, or lax; 

 peduncles doI deflexed in age; calyx-appendages evident ; corolla white or bluish, 

 basin-shaped or broadly campanulate, not hairy within, devoid of blue or purple 

 dots; scales semicircular, oblong or triangular, entire or laciniate, not reduced 

 to hairy lines. 



The most common species, growing in every canon and by every shady road- 

 side in the San Francisco Bay region. Less common in the sierra Nevada 

 foothills. Extremely variable and includes a great number of inconstant 



