612 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 



New Mexico: Mogollon Road (Wooton). Mountains, in the Transition Zone. 



Our specimens are very close to this species, but appear somewhat different. They 

 probably represent an undescribed species, but our material is not sufficient for thor- 

 ough study. 



6. DISTEGIA Raf. 



Stout shrub similar to the last, but the flowers sometimes in 3's and not coherent, 

 the bracts leaflike, and the bractlets strongly accrescent and purplish, surrounding 

 the large black berries. 



1. Distegia involucrata (Richards.) Raf. New Fl. N. Amer. 3: 21. 1836. 



Xylosteon involucratum Richards. Rot. App. Frankl. Journ. 733. 1823. 



Lonicera involucrata Banks; Richards, loc. cit. 



Type locality: "Wooded country from 54° to 64° north," British America. 



Range: British America to California and New Mexico. 



New Mexico: Tunitcha Mountains; Chama; Copper Canyon; Santa Fe and Las 

 Vegas mountains. Damp deep woods, in the Transition Zone. 



136. ADOXACEAE. Moschatel Family. 



1. ADOXA L. Musk-root. Moschatel. 



Low glabrous herb with scaly or bulbiferous rootstocks, basal and opposite, ternately 

 compound leaves, and small green flowers in terminal capitate clusters; hypanthium 

 hemispheric, adnate to the ovary; sepals 2 or 3; corolla rotate, regular, 4 to 6-lobed; 

 stamens twice as many as the corolla lobes, inserted in pairs on the tube; anthers 

 peltate, 1-celled; ovary 3 to 5-celled; style 3 to 5-parted; fruit a small drupe with 3 

 to 5 nutlets. 



1. Adoxa moschatellina L. Sp. PI. 367. 1753. 



Type locality: "Habitat in Europae nemoribus." 



Range: Arctic America to Wisconsin and northern New Mexico; also in Europe. 



New Mexico: Pecos Baldy (Standley 4330). Cold woods and high meadows, in the 

 Arctic-Alpine Zone. 



Order 48. CAMPANULALES. 



KEY TO THE FAMILIES. 



Endosperm wanting; flowers monoecious or dioe- 

 cious; vines with tendrils 137. CTJCURBITACEAE (p. 612). 



Endosperm present; flowers perfect; plants not 

 vines. 



Corolla regular 138. CAMPANULACEAE (p. 616). 



Corolla split on one side, more or less irreg- 

 ular 139. LOBELIACEAE (p. 617). 



137. CTJCURBITACEAE. Gourd Family. 



Annual or perennial herbaceous vines, mostly tendril-bearing, prostrate or climb- 

 ing, eome of them from enlarged tuberous roots; leaves alternate, simple, palmately 

 veined or lobed, without stipules; flowers monoecious or dioecious; calyx of 4 or 5 

 united sepals, adherent to the' ovary in the pistillate flower; petals as many as the 

 sepals, united and adherent to them; stamens usually 3, 2 of them with 2-celled 

 anthers, the third with a 1-celled anther; filaments distinct or variously united; 

 staminodia sometimes present in pistillate flowers; ovary 1 to 3-celled, with one, 

 several, or many ovules; fruit a berry, pepo, or thin-walled, more or less inflated, dry 

 fruit, dehiscent or indehiscent; seeds usually rather large, flattened, numerous or 

 Bometimes solitary. 



