610 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 



Type locality: Giveu as "Apulia, Cabria, Siculia," but thn original home of the 

 plant is probably Africa. 

 New Mexico: Mesilla Valley (Wooton & Standley). 

 This is a common escape in the Rio Grande Valley, especially along ditches. 



8. CUCUMIS L. 



1. Cucumis melo L. Sp. PI. 1011. 1753. Canteloupe. 



Type locality: Not stated. 



New Mexico: Mesilla Valley (Wooton & Standley 3225). 



This, like the watermelon, is often found growing in the waste ground of the Rio . 

 Grande Valley and elsewhere. 



138. CAMPANTJLACEAE. Bluebell Family. 



Herbs with alternate exstipnlate leaves; flowers racemose or solitary, blue, usually 

 showy; calyx tube adnate to the ovary; corolla gamopetalous, campanulate or rotate; 

 stamens commonly 5, distinct, the filaments broad and membranaceous at the base; 

 stigmas 3; ovary 3-celled ; capsule short, opening by 3 valves or pores. 



key to the genera. 



Corolla campanulate; flowers terminal or axillary, long- 



pediceled ; perennials 1. Campanula (p. C1G). 



Corolla rotate; flowers axillary, sessile; annuals 2. Specularia (p. 616). 



1. CAMPANULA L. Bluebell. 



Perennial herbs with narrow leaves and terminal or axillary, pedicellate, showy, 

 blue flowers; corolla campanulate, 5-lobed; capsules short, opening on the sides by 

 valves or pores. 



KEY TO THE SPECIES. 



Capsules erect; flowers solitary; sepals nearly equaling the corolla... 1. C. parryi. 

 Capsules nodding; flowers usually several; sepals about half as long as 



the corolla 2. C. peliolata. 



1. Campanula parryi A. Gray, Syn. Fl. ed. 2. 3 1 : 395. 1886. 

 Type locality: Rocky Mountains of Colorado. 



Range: Wyoming to New Mexico and Arizona. 



New Mexico: Winsors Ranch; Chusca Canyon; Zuni; Abiquiu Peak; Rio Pueblo; 

 Embudo. Meadows, in the Transition and Canadian zones. 



2. Campanula petiolata A. DC. Monogr. Campan. 278. 1830. 



Type locality: "Habitat in America boreali prope lacum dictum Slave Lake." 



Range: British America to Utah and New Mexico. 



New Mexico: Sandia Mountains; Santa Fe and Las Vegas mountains; Tunitcha 

 Mountains; Jemez Mountains; Magdalena Mountains; Mogollon Mountains; Black 

 Range; White and Sacramento mountains; Capitan Mountains. Meadows, from Ihe 

 Transition to the Arctic-Alpine Zone. 



2. SPECULARIA Heist. Venus 's looking-glass. 



Annual with mostly simple angled pubescent stems and broadly ovate crenate 

 sessile leaves; corolla rotate, blue or violet, the flowers sessile in the axils of the 

 leaves; capsules oblong or turbinate, opening about the middle. 



1. Specularia perfoliata (L.) A. DC. Monogr. Campan. 351. 1830. 

 ( iimpanula perfoliata L. Sp. PI. 169. 1753. 

 Legouzia perfoliata Britton, Mem. Torrey Club 5: 309. 1894. 



