WOOTON AND STANDLEY FLORA OF NEW MEXICO. 617 



Type locality: "Habitat in Virginia." 

 Range: 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. Lobelia. 



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 filamenls united above; ovary 

 2 to 5-celled, with numerous ovules; fruit a many-seeded capsule. 



KEY TO Till: SPECIES. 



Corolla red; cauline leaves denticulate 1. L. splendent. 



Corolla blue; cauline leaves usually entire 2. L. gruina. 



1. Lobelia splendens Willd. Hort. Berol. pi. S6. 181.G. Cardinal flower. 

 Type locality: Mexico. 



Range: Texas to California and southward. 



New Mexico: Pajarito Park; headwaters of (lie Pecos; West Fork of the Gila; 

 Lower Plaza; Kingston; While Mountains; EtOswell; Zuni. Wet ground, in the 

 Upper Sonoran and Transition zones. 



2. Lobelia gruina Cav. Icon. PI. 6: 8. pi. , r >1l. 1801. 

 Type locality: Mexico. 



Range: Arizona and western New Mexico to central Mexico. 

 New Mexico: Mogollon Mountains. Transition Zone. 



Order 49. VALERIAN ALES. 



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 loss pinnately 

 divided, some of the basal ones entire; flowers perfect, monoecious, or dioecious, 

 small; calyx of 3 to 5 sepals or pappus-like or obsolete; corolla tube narrowly funnel- 

 form or Balverform ; stamens 1 to I, 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 \\\\\\ (lie characters of the family. 



1. VALERIANA I,. Yaii.kian. 



KKV To TIIK SPECIES. 



Leaves thick, entireor with long Linear divisions; venation almost 



parallel; tall plant, aboul I meter high l. V. traehycarpa. 



Leaves thin, the cauline ones pinnate, the lobes not linear; vena- 

 tion distinctly pinnate; plants lower, seldom more than :'>(> 

 cm. I 



Basal lea ordate 2. V.ovata. 



patulate or lanceolate, tapering al the base '■'•■ V.acutUoba, 



1. Valeriana traehycarpa Rydl i. l'.ull. Torrey Club 31: 645. 1904. 

 Ti ii locality: tied Mountain, < (dorado. 

 Rani ; Colorado and New Mexico. 



