WOOTON AND STANDLEY FLOEA 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-Iobed; stamens 5, the filaments united above; ovary 

 2 to 5-celled, with numerous o^'^lles; fruit a many-seeded capsule. 



KEY to the species. 



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



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



1. Lobelia splendens Vvllld. Hort. Berol. pi. 86. 1816. Cardinal flower. 

 Type locality: Mexico. 



Range: Texas to California and southward. 



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

 Lower Plaza; Kingston; White Mountains; Roswell; Zuni. Wet groimd, in the 

 Upper Sonoran and Transition zones. 



2. Lobelia gruina Cav. Icon. PL 6: 8. -pi. 511. ISOl. 

 Type locality: Mexico. 



Range: Arizona and western New Mexico to central Mexico. 

 New Mexico: Mogollon Moimtains. 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 less 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 salverform; stamens 1 to 4, 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 with the characters of the family. 



1. VALERIANA L. Valerian. 



KEY TO THE SPECIES. 



Leaves thick, entire or with long linear divisions; venation almost 



parallel; tall plant, about 1 meter high 1. V. trachycarpa. 



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

 tion distinctly pinnate; plants lower, seldom more than 30 

 cm. high. 



Basal leaves ovate-cordate 2. V. ovata. 



Basal leaves spatulate or lanceolate, tapering at the base 3. V. acutiloba. 



1. Valeriana trachycarpa Rydb. Bull. Torrey Club 31: G45. 1904. 

 Type locality: Red Mouiitain, Colorado. 

 Range: Colorado and New Mexico. 



