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Tyrer Locauity: ‘Habitat in Virginia.”’ 
RanaeE: British America to Mexico and Florida. 
New Mexico: Mountains west of Grants Station; Sandia Mountains; Middle Fork 
of the Gila; Organ Mountains. Dry slopes, in the Upper Sonoran Zone. 
139. LOBELIACEAE. Lobelia Family. 
1. LOBELIA L. Lose tia, 
Herbs with alternate, exstipulate, linear to spatulate, toothed leaves and red or 
blue flowers in terminal racemes; hypanthium campanulate to subglobose, ribbed, 
adnate to the ovary; sepals 5, linear-lanceolate; corolla conspicuously bilabiate, the 
upper lip 2-lobed, the lower 3-lobed; stamens 5, the filaments united above; ovary 
2 to 5-celled, with numerous ovules; fruit a many-seeded capsule. 
KEY TO THE SPECIES. 
Corolla red; cauline leaves denticulate......... cece cece e ee eeeee 1. L. splendens. 
Corolla blue; caulipe leaves usually entire............--+--+-++-+-+--- 2. LL. gruina, 
1. Lobelia splendens Willd. Hort. Berol. pl. 86. 1816. CARDINAL FLOWER, 
TYPE LOCALITY: Mexico. 
Rance: Texas to California and southward. 
New Mexico: Pajarito Park; headwaters of the Pecos; West Fork of the Gila; 
Lower Plaza; Kingston; White Mountains; Roswell; Zuni. Wet ground, in the 
Upper Sonoran and Transition zones, 
2. Lobelia gruina Cay. Icon, Pl. 6: 8. pl. 511. 1801. 
Tyrer LOCALITY: Mexico. 
Rance: Arizona and western New Mexico to central Mexico. 
New Mexico: Mogollon Mountains. Transition Zone. 
Order 49. VALERIANALES. 
140. VALERIANACEAE. Valerian Family. 
Perennial herbs, sometimes 1.5 meters tall, from thickened cormlike roots, with 
opposite leaves, and small flowers in terminal panicles; leaves more or less pinnately 
divided, some of the basal ones entire; flowers perfect, moncecious, or diccious, 
small; calyx of 3 to 5 sepals or pappus-like or obsolete; corolla tube narrowly funnel- 
form or salverform; stamens 1 to 4, adnate to the corolla tube; ovary inferior, 3-celled, 
2 of the cells abortive; fruit a 1-seeded nutlet crowned with the calyx or naked. 
With us a single genus with the characters of the family. 
1. VALERIANA L. VALERIAN. 
KEY TO THE SPECIES. 
Leaves thick, entire or with long linear divisions; venation almost 
parallel; tall plant, about 1 meter high.........-.--.--.--- 1. V. trachycarpa. 
Leaves thin, the cauline ones pinnate, the lobes not linear; vena- 
tion distinctly pinnate; plants lower, seldom more than 30 
cm. high. 
Basal leaves ovate-cordate......cccecececece cece ce ceenece 2. V. ovata, 
Basal leaves spatulate or lanceolate, tapering at the base..... 3. V. acutiloba, 
1. Valeriana trachycarpa Rydb. Bull. Torrey Club 31: 645. 1904. 
TyPE Locality: Red Mountain, Colorado. 
Rance: Colorado and New Mexico. 
