WATERLEAF FAMILY, Hydrophyliaceae. 
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wee This is a straggling plant, with pretty 
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Nemophila delicate flowers, which suggest some sort of 
Neméphila aurita Nightshade. The stems are pale, square, 
Purple juicy and very brittle, from one to three 
Stgsesnagite feet long, and the leaves are bright green 
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and most of them are alternate, with leaf- 
stalks which are winged and clasping at base. The backs 
of the leaves, and the stems and calyxes, are covered with 
hooked bristles, which enable the plant to climb over its 
neighbors and give it the feeling of Bed-straw to the touch. 
The flowers are nearly an inch across, with purple corollas, 
shading to white in the center and paler outside, with 
purple scales in the throat and purple stamens. This is 
rather coarser than most Nemophilas and grows in light 
shade on hiilsides. 
There are several kinds of Conanthus, low hairy herbs, 
with alternate, toothless leaves. The calyx and corolla 
are without appendages; the stamens are not protruding, 
and are unequal in length and unequally inserted in the 
tube of the corolla; the style is two-lobed and the capsule 
is roundish and contains from ten to twenty, smooth seeds. 
This is a pretty little desert plant, 
oe spreading its branches flat on the ground 
rare and bearing tufts of grayish-green, very 
Pink hairy foliage and a number of charming 
Spring little flowers, which are three-eighths of an 
Idaho, Neyv., 
ree inch across, with very hairy calyxes and 
bright purplish-pink corollas, with a white 
and yellow ‘‘eye”’ and a long, slender, yellow tube, which 
is slightly hairy on ‘the outside. The styles and anthers 
are of various lengths in different plants. These gay little 
flowers look very pretty on the dreary mesas around Reno 
and suggest some sort of Gilia. 
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