NEMOPH'ILA ATOMA'RIA. 
SPECKLED NEMOPHILA. 
Class. Order 
PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
hydrophyllacea;. 
Native of 
Heio-lit. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
California. 
6 inches. 
June to Oct. 
Annual. 
in 1836. 
No. 745. 
For the derivation of the name Nemophila, see 
No. 635. The Latin specific name is translated in 
the word speckled. 
This is one of the additions to our Californian 
annuals, obtained, as is stated by Sir W. J. Hooker, 
by the successful labours of the lamented Douglas, 
by whom seeds were transmitted to the London 
Horticultural Society, in 1826. Although a pretty 
flower it possesses but little of that gaiety which so 
eminently distinguishes many of the productions 
received from the same country, and is much less 
brilliant in appearance than its near ally, the Ne- 
mophila insignis (No. 635) which cheers the bor- 
ders with its lively blue. It is, however, an early 
flowerer, requiring, with the assistance of a hotbed, 
but little more than two months’ growth before it 
begins to produce its flowers. A succession of 
these will be produced through the summer, and 
its seed will be ripened freely if the season be 
favourable. 
A number of seedlings have sprung spontane- 
ously on the site of our old plant, showing that, 
like insignis, it is completely hardy. 
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