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NEMOPHILA MACULATA. 
Our present subject is a hardy greenhouse plant of easy culture, and should be potted 
in a mixture of equal parts light sandy loam, leaf mould, and peat, with good drainage. 
Several plants in the Nursery of Messrs. Veitch, were standing in the open air in 
autumn, and bore a slight frost uninjured ; from which circumstance those gentlemen 
conclude that the plant might be kept through the winter in a cold pit. 
Propagation is effected by cuttings of the half-ripened wood, planted in pots of sand, 
and placed in the propagating house or in a hotbed. 
The generic name was given by Linnaeus in honour of John Browallius, Bishop of Aboa. 
NEMOPHILA MACULATA. (Spotteckflowered Nemophila.) 
Class, Pentandria. Order, Monogynia. Nat. Order, Hydrophyllaceas. (Hydrophyls, Veg. King.) 
Generic Character. — Calyx hairy, persistent, ten-cleft, 
five divisions ovate, nearly erect ; the remainder smaller, 
lanceolate, alternate, and reflexed. Corolla funnel-shaped, 
of five equal emarginate lobes. Ovary one-celled, many- 
seeded. 
Specific Character. — Plant an annual, covered with 
stiff hairs. Radical leaves pinnatifid, lyrate ; divisions 
short, obtuse, somewhat sickle- shaped, entire ; upper leaves 
wedge-shaped, trilobate. Peduncles axillary, one-flowered, 
much longer than the leaves. Calyx erect, segments ovate- 
lanceolate ; reflexed ones linear-lanceolate, acute. Corolla 
much larger than the calyx, lobes broadly-ovate, obtuse, 
white, with a deep violet-blue blotch on the tip of each. 
Ovules numerous. 
Authorities and Synonymes. — Nemophila, Nuttall, D. 
Don. Phacelia, Juss., Pursh. Nemophila maculata, 
Bentham, in Jour. Hort. Soc. iii., p. 319. 
This is said by Dr. Lindley, to be the best annual yet raised from the seeds collected 
in California by Mr. Hartweg. The habit of the plant is that of AT. insignis. The flowers 
are large and showy, being rendered particularly lively by the deep blue blotches on the 
tips of the segments of the corolla. The colours, however, are less permanent than could 
be wished ; sometimes the dots are small, faint, ill defined, or run ; and at other times the 
white becomes tinged with blue ; altogether, however, it is a very good plant. 
It requires the same treatment as JV. insignis, that is, if the plants are wanted to flower 
very early, raise them on a hotbed ; but if otherwise, they may be sown in the open garden 
as early as the season will permit, on a warm south border, observing to transplant when the 
weather is fine, and the plants pretty strong ; a good bloom may be expected, which will 
continue the greater part of the season. A second sowing may be made a month or six 
weeks later, but it is necessary to allow these plants to flower where they were sown. 
All Nemophilas delight in situations rather moist and shady, and spread themselves out 
the best when planted in a bed of peat or very rotten vegetable mould. It is from their 
love of shade that the generic name was given, from nemos , a grove, and phileo, to love. 
The seeds should be collected from plants, which produce perfect flowers, otherwise their 
beauties will soon deteriorate. 
Our drawing was made in the Garden of the Horticultural Society, Turnham Green, 
in September, 1848. 
