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BOTANY. 
MuLGEDiuM PULCHELLUM, Nutt. British America, Oregon and California, 
and eastward to Upper Michigan; Virginia City, (Bloomer.) From the 
Truckee River, Nevada, to Provo Valley, Utah; 4-6,000 feet elevation; 
July-September. (726.) 
SoNCHU ASPEES, Villars. Oregon and California to the Atlantic. "Proba- 
bly indigenous to this country, at least to the South ; now found in almost 
every part of the world." (Tl Sf G.) Truckee bottom, canons of the West 
Humboldt Mountains, Humboldt Valley, and City Creek Canon in the 
Wahsatch; 4-6,000 feet elevation ; May-September. (727.) 
LOBELIACE^. 
DowNiNGiA^ PULCHELLA, Torr. Fac. R. R. Surv. 4. 116. Stem 2-6' 
long, branching, flcxuous, ascending ; leaves 3-12" long, ovate and lanceolate, 
obtuse ; sepals lanceolate, obtuse ; upper lobes of the corolla ovate or lanceo- 
late, acute, the middle lower lobe somewhat the longest ; capsules becoming 
2-3' in length. — Corolla bright blue with a yellow or nearly white center, 
2-6" long. California and Oregon. Found in wet places in the Truckee 
Meadows, near Glendale, Nevada. July. (728.) 
CAMPANULAOEiE. 
Campanula eotundifolia, L. Stems 3-18' in height; quite variable in 
the length and breadth of the calyx-segments, and the higher alpine form ex- 
actly like Greenland specimens of C. Hnifolia, Lam., which with C. Langs- 
dorjfiana is referred to this species by Dr. Hooker without doubt. In its 
various forms it occurs from Greenland and the Arctic Ocean to the Northern 
States and Washington Territory and southward in the Rocky Mountains to 
Colorado and New Mexico. In the Uintas on the dry rocky banks of Bear 
River at 8,000 feet altitude, and in wet ground near the summits at an eleva- 
tion of 11,500 feet; July, August. (729.) 
Campanula uniflora, L. DC. Prodr. 7. 482. Stem 1-flowered; leaves 
su1)entire, the lower obovate, petioled, the middle ones obovate-lanceolate, 
and the upper occasionally linear-lanceolate ; calyx shghtly villous, with linear 
acuminate lobes nearly ecpuiling the fiinnelform corolla ; capsule cyhndrical. — 
' DOWNINCUA. ToKi:. {Cnnfomu,'L\m\\.) Calyx-tube elongated; lobes 5, subequal, lanceolate. 
Corolla-tube very .■.hurt, the litu1> bilabiate ; lower lii> cuueate, 3-lobed, the upper 2-parted with erect nar- 
row. r lobes, t^tamcus united ; lower anthers bearded at the apex. Ovary inferior, 1-celled, with 2 parie- 
tal [ilacenta'. Cai>sule tluutaceous, twisted, triangular, dehiscing by 3 linear valves, many-seeded.— An- 
nual herbs, with cniiie we-jfjilo leaves and axillary sessile flowers longer than the bracts. 
