persistent style, bilocular. Placenta 2, large, spongy, eacli
beai'ing 4 or 5 seeds.
A very pretty hardy annual, native of California, whence
it has been introduced by the Horticultural Society from
seeds collected by the late Mr. David Douglas. It is a much
more elegant plant than . phacelioides, and the flowers are
rather larger and of a brighter blue. The seeds should be
sown in a border fully exposed to the sun, and the plants
permitted to remain. As the plant perfects its seeds very
sparingly, especially if the season proves wet, and to prevent
disappointment in this respect, some of the seedlings should
be transplanted into small-sized pots, and placed in an airy
part of the greenhouse or conservatory.
Our drawing was taken from Mrs. Marryat’s collection
at Wimbledon, where we had the pleasure of seeing the
plant in more than usual beauty in July last.
The genus was established by Mr. Nuttall, who named it
Nemophila, from, vepoi, a grove, and fiXeco, to love, on
account of the original species (N. phacelioides) having been
observed by him in shady woods, near Fort Smith, on the
Arkansa. Our plant is chiefly distinguished from that species
by its opposite leaves, and by the greater number of seeds to
each placenta. D . Don.
1. Portion of the Corolla, with two of the Stamens.
2. Pistil. 3. Capsule.
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