616 CO^STTEIBUTIONS FEOM THE NATIONAL HEEBAEIUM. 



Type locality: Given as "Apulia, Cabria, Siculia," but the 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 naelo 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. CAMPANULACEAE. Bluebell Family. 



Herbs with alternate exstipulate 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 membranaceoiis at the base; 

 Btigmas 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. 616). 



Corolla rotate; flowers axillary, sessile; annuals 2. Speculaeia (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. petiolata. 



1. Campanula paiTji A. Gray, Syn. Fl. ed. 2. 2': 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 Lal-e." 



Range: British America to Utah and New Mexico. 



New Mexico: Sandia Mountains; Santa Fe and Las Vegas moimtains; Timitcha 

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

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

 Transition to the Arctic-Alpine Zone. 



2. SPECTJIiABIA 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. 

 Campanula perfoliata L. Sp. PI. 1G9. 1753. 

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



