This may be the original N. Menziesii, but more complete material would be necessary before hazarding an opinion. All that at present seems certain regarding the name N. Menziesii is that it was applied to some member of this group and that it was the first so applied. The original description covers very well the whole group and this taken in conjunction with the close resemblance of the different members seems to render it advisable to use the name N. Menziesii, H. & A., to designate the whole group and to consider the divisions of the group as sub-species. We can thus apply the names N. insignis, Dougl., and N. atomaria, F. &. M., to the plants which originally received those names. The common plant of the counties north of the Bay has never been properly segregated and is thus left without a name, a lack which I have supplied below. N. intermedia. From 6 to 12 inches long, with ascending branches from the base, more or less hairy, leaves pinnately parted into 5 to 9 entire, or 2- to 5-lobed, divisions, petioles somewhat widened at the base and ciliate, the upper all opposite; corolla .75 to 1 inch wide, bright blue to white, distinctly blue-veined, more or less punctate with dull purple dots; inter-staminal scales extending nearly to the sinuses, long, narrow, hairy and with expanded tips; ovary rounded, ovules 12 to 24. This plant is included with several others under the name of N. Menziesii, H. & A., by Gray in the Flora of North America, ii, 156; it is part of N. insignis as defined in the "Botany of the Bay Region." Living plants have been examined from the counties of San Francisco, Marin, Sonoma, Lake, Alameda and Contra Costa. The range of this plant is more northerly and westerly than that of N. insignis which prefers hot localities and especially sandy soils. N. INSIGNIS, Dougl. In habit very like the above but less succulent and generally more hairy, leaves somewhat more divided; calyx with broader ovate-lanceolate divisions and shorter and broader appendages, shining and distinctly veined; corolla one inch or more broad or the imperfect flowers half that size, from light to deep purplish blue, not distinctly blue-veined, the circular white center more or less punctate; inter-staminal scales short, wide and short hairy; ovary longer than in N. intermedia and with 20 to 32 ovules, Benth. Linn. Trans. XVII, 275, (1833) and Trans. Hort. Soc. I, 479; Gray, Flora of N. A. I, 155; Greene, Bot. Bay Region 252 in part. N. Menziesii, var., H. & A. Bot. Beech. 372. Living plants of this species have been examined from the counties of San Francisco, Alameda (cultivated), Contra Costa, Amador, Tulare and Los Angeles. N. ATOMARIA, F. & M. With the habit of N. intermedia but less hairy and growing only in springy places among the hills; corolla less than one inch wide, white with a slight tinge of violet on the outside of the tube, closely dark-spotted nearly to the edge, densely hairy within the tube; inter-staminal scales narrow and long-hairy; ovary rounded and less hairy than that of the two foregoing species, ovules about 16. Ind. Sem. Hort. Petrop. (1835). Bot. Reg. t. 1940 The figure of the scale is drawn from a plant from Cazadero, Sonoma Co. The color of the flowers is variable in the first two species, but N. insignis is generally more deeply colored, of a less pure blue and with a white center of more distinct circular outline. The spots are very variable in both species. At Lake Merced, San Francisco and at Pomona the corolla of N. insignis is almost destitute of spots, while specimens of the same species from Tulare are more densely spotted than any specimens of N. intermedia that I have seen; but in neither species do the spots extend to near the edge of the corolla as in N. atomaria. EXPLANATION OF PLATE. I. Nemophila insignis, Douglas, corolla scale. Each of the figures is magnified twenty diameters. PACIFIC SLOPE PLANTS IN ENGLISH GARDENS. By J. BURTT Davy. THE Englishman's delight in his garden is proverbial. As with other things, this hobby of his is subject to the vicissitudes of fashion, both as regards the nature of the plants or the particular order or genus which receives his special attention, and as regards the method of laying out of the ground and the grouping of its occupants. Within the last few years a re-action has been observed in English gardens against the stiffness and formality incident to "carpet-bedding" and "color-massing," and a desire has been manifest to produce as much diversity of form and coloring in a small space, as good effect would permit. This has resulted in the revival of the more natural and by no means new arrangements known as the "herbaceous-border," The former is frequently met with and the "rock-garden. in the form of a long flower-bed under a wall, or dividing a lawn or gravel walk from a live-hedge or shrubbery, having tall and showy herbaceous plants, such as Dahlias, Asters, Chrysanthemums, etc., for a background with shorter plants in front, and a border composed of Lobelia Erinus or some other dwarf species: the individual plants are relatively placed so that a succession of flowers is produced all through the season, no one part being entirely without blossoms or ornamental foliage at any time. The rock-garden is the result of an attempt to reproduce the conditions best adapted to the growth of Alpine plants and ferns, a bog-garden being often combined with the rockery. In order to provide material for, and to maintain an interest in, these two forms of garden-usually met with in the same grounds-it is necessary for the nurseryman to go to more trouble and expense than he would to simply procure new forms, or variations in size and color, of one favorite species such as the ordinary garden Rose, the Pansy or the He must provide "new Chrysanthemum, for instance. garden plants," i. e. species which have never hitherto been |