372 CALIFORNIA.-SUPPLEMENT. IHydropUyllea. 
maximse, dorso liberae, ovarium implentes, 2-ovulatse. — Folia pinnatim dissecta, inferiora opposita. Pe- 
dunculi inferiores oppositifoKi, superiores in racemo laxo unilaterali simplici dispositi. 
1. E. memhranacea [Benth.) ; glaberrima, petiolis exappendiculatis, foliis pinnatifidis 
segmentis integerrimis, calycibus vix auctis. Bentk. 1. c. p. 274. 
Mr Bentham describes the lobes of the leaves as broadly lanceolate, but in all our specimens they are 
broadly linear and obtuse. 
2. E. chrysanthemifolia {Benth.) ; hispido-scabra, petiolis basi auriculato-dilatatis, foliis 
subbipinnatifidis, lobis inciso-dentatis obtusis, calycibus fructiferis parum auctis. Benth. 
1. c. p. 274. 
NEMOPHILA. Barton. Benth. 1. c. 
Cahycis sinus dentibus reflexis appendiculati. Squamce corollince 10, breves, vel nullse. Stamina corolla 
subbreviora. Placenta; maxim®, dorso liber®, ovarium implentes, 2-12-ovulat®. — Herb® annua; diffusce 
fragiles. Folia inferiora opposita, omnia pinnatifida. Pedunculi nunc axillares, unifiori, nunc pauces 
ad apices ramorum in racemis hrevibus dispositi. Benth. 
1. N. parviflora {^Dougl.'); foliis pinnatifidis, lobis paucis latis subdentatis, calycis 
sinubus brevissime appendiculatis, corollis calycem vix superantibus, placentis 2-ovulatis. 
Benth. 1. c. p. 275. 
Hab. California. Mr Menzies. 
2. N. pedunculata {Dougl.) ; foliis pinnatifidis, lobis paucis latis subintegerrimis, calycis 
sinubus brevissime appendiculatis, corollis calycem vix superantibus, placentis 6-ovulatis. 
Benth. 1. c. 
In the Columbia plant, the leaves are almost as broad as in N. parviflora ; in that from California they 
are narrower, the lobes shorter, more distant from each other, and quite entire. The calycine appendages 
are so very minute as not to be detected without careful examination. 
3. N. aurita {Lindl.) ; petiolis basi auriculato-dilatatis, calycis sinuum appendiculis 
elongatis, corollis calyce duplo longioribus, placentis 2-ovulatis. Benth. 1. c. 
4. N. Menziesii {Hook, et Arn.) ; petiolis exappendiculatis, foliis pinnatifidis, segmentis 
approximatis ovatis integerrimis vel bi-tridentato-lobatis, pedunculis oppositifoliis elonga- 
tis, corolltE (cmruleae parce nigro-punctatte) rotatae fundo pilosae laciniis obovatis calyce 
subduplo longioribus, placentis sub-lO-ovulatis. — a. corollae calycem vix duplo superante. 
— N. Menziesii. Hook, et Arn. supra, p. 152. Benth. 1. c. p. 276.— /3. corolla calycem plus 
duplo superante. — N. insignis. Dougl. ms. Benth. 1. c. p. 276 (excl. syn.). Hort. Soc. 
Trans. N. Ser. 1. p. 643. Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 1713. Hook, in Bot. Mag. t. 3485. 
Our first variety has the flowers considerably smaller than /3., as small indeed as in N. atomaria, Fisch. et 
Meyer, Ind. Sem. Hort. Petr. 2. p. 43 (Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 1940), but the flowers of the latter are white, 
and strongly marked with numerous dull lead-blue specks, and therein seems to lie the principal difference 
between the two species. Dr Bindley states that in N. atomaria the peduncles are hair}"-, and in N. insignis 
glabrous ; but in our specimens of the latter, the peduncles vary from almost glabrous to perfectly hairy. 
We fear that the two species ought to be united. N. phacelioides, of the Bot. Reg. t. 740, appears to us 
a large cultivated form of the true N. phacelioides of Barton. 
