nemophilas

• "The ground is literally dolly-vardened with buttercups, violets, dodecatheons, gilias, nemophilas, and the like. —  A Truthful Woman in Southern California
• Before us is a field of blue nemophilas. —  Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California
• There were other precious articles in reserve for the absent; and the display of Gillian's own garments was not without interest, as she had been to her first ball, under the chaperonage of Lady Somerville, and Mrs. Grinstead had made her white tarletan available by painting it and its ribbons with exquisite blue nemophilas, too lovely for anything so fleeting. —  Beechcroft at Rockstone
• The grand parterre, laid out in regularly-shaped borders, each containing a mass of one kind of flower, flaming elscholchias, dazzling verbenas, azure nemophilas, or sober heliotrope, the broad walks, the great pile of building, the innumerable windows, the long ascent of stone steps, their balustrade guarded by sculptured sphinxes, the lofty entrance, and the tall powdered footmen, gave her the sense of entering a palace. —  Heartsease, Or, the Brother's Wife

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