WATERLEAF FAMILY, Hydrophyliaceae. 
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Babs Bae ee These are exceedingly charming little 
nee ae plants, with slender, weak, hairy stems, 
Nemé6phila insignis Varying a good deal in height, but usually 
Blue and white low and spreading, and pretty, light 
Spring green, soft, hairy foliage, sprinkled with 
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many lovely flowers, an inch or more 
across, with hairy calyxes and sky-blue corollas, which are 
clear white in the center and more or less specked with 
brown, with ten hairy scales in the throat. The blue of 
their bright little faces is always wonderfully brilliant, but 
‘they are variable and are usually deeper in color and rather 
smaller in the South. This is one of the commonest kinds 
of Nemophila in California and it is a general favorite. 
It is called Mariana by the Spanish Californians. 
This is much like the last, but it is a 
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Neméphila taller and ‘more slender plant, usually 
intermedia about ten inches high. The lovely deli- 
Blue and white cate flowers are less than an inch across, 
—— with light blue corollas, usually shading to 
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white at the center and delicately veined 
with blue, or speckled with purple dots. This grows among 
the underbrush. 
These are charming flowers, their 
sete sy: corollas oddly and prettily marked. The 
iad éphila weak, hairy stems, from three to twelve 
maculata _ inches long, are usually spreading and the 
White and purple leaves are opposite, hairy, and light green. 
pamrnce The flowers are about an inch across, with 
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hairy calyxes and white corollas, which are 
prettily dotted with purple and usually have a distinct 
indigo spot at the tip of each petal, which gives an unusual 
effect. The filaments are lilac and the anthers and pistil 
are whitish. This is common in meadows around Yosemite 
and in other places in the Sierras at moderate altitudes. 
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