NEMOPH'ILA MACULA'TA. 
SPOTTED NEMOPHILA. 
Class. Order. 
PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
HYDROPH YLLACEjE. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
California. 
9 inches. 
August. 
Annual. 
in 1848. 
No. 1224. 
This genus may be called, conformably with its 
name, the shade-loving genus. Nemophila having 
been deduced from the two Greek words nemos, a 
grove ; and phileo, to love. 
Nemophila maculata is a handsome showy an- 
nual, possessing much the same habit as Insignis, 
previously published at No. 035. It was raised in 
the London Horticultural Society’s Garden, from 
Californian seeds, sent home by Mr. Hartweg, the 
Society’s collector. Its superiority over Insignis de- 
pends chiefly on the purple blotch of its petals ; and 
this varies in different plants, and possibly, if no 
attention be paid to the selection of the plants from 
which seeds are collected, this mark of beauty may 
sometimes be lost. 
Too much care can never be bestowed on the 
choice of all plants from which seeds are to he gath- 
ered. Those with the most luxuriant habit, and 
with flowers the most perfect, should always be se- 
lected as parents ; and by this means, to a certain 
extent, a progressive improvement may, in general, 
be obtained. Seeds may be sown in the borders, in 
April ; or, for early flowering, in the autumn. 
