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408 CAMPANULACEZ GITHOPSIS 
LEGOUZIA 
* Ovary and capsule short and broad. 
8 Heterocodon Calyx-lobes very broad : capsule thin-walled, not dehis- 
cent. but bursting indefinitely between the ribs. 
4 Campanula Calyx-lobes narrow: capsule opening on the side by 3-5 
small valves leaving definite round perforations. 
1 GITHOPSIS Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. viii. 258. 
Annual herbs with alternate leaves and blue fowers. Flowers 
all alike and corolliferous. Tube of the calyx club-shaped, stron- 
gly 10-ribbed, adnate up to the summit of the ovary: the limb 
of five long and narrow foliaceous lobes. Corolla tubular-cam- 
panulate. 5-lobed, Filaments short, dilated at the base: anthers 
linear. Ovary 3-celled. Stigma 3-lobed. Capsule clavate, cori- 
aceous, crowned with the rigid calyx-lobes, strongly striate-rib- 
bed, many seeded, opening where the base of the style falls away 
by a narrow hole. Seeds very numerous, smooth. | 
H. specularioides Nutt. 1. c. Stem rigid, 2-10 -nches high: leaves 
small, linear-oblong, coarse!y toothed, sessile: flowers solitary terminatin 
the stem or branches, or becoming lateral, strictly erect: corolla blue: rigi 
capsule tapering into a very short and stout peduncle. Open places, 
western Washington to California. 
2 LEGOUZIA Durand FI. Bourg, ii, 26. (1782.) 
SPECULARIA Hiester. 
Annual herbs with alternate leaves and axillary blue flowers. 
Flowers often dimorphous, the earlier ones smaller and with 
undeveloped corolla, and cross-fertilized in bud. Calyx-lobes in 
the early flowers 3 or 4, in the later ones 5, narrow. Calyx-tube 
narrow, more or less elongated. Corolla short and broad, rotate 
or nearly so when expanded, 5-lobed or 5-parted. Anthers linear. 
Stigmas and cells of the ovary 3-4. Capsule obconical or cylin- 
draceous, opening by one or more small valvular openings on the 
side, either near the summit or near the middle. 
L. perfoliata Britton Mem. Torr, Club, v, 309. Specularia perfoliata 
ito stenr = inches hight very leafy throughout, simple or branched 
from the base, hirsute or hispid on the angles: leaves round cordate and 
p clasping, mostly crenate, veiny, 6-12 lines broad: flowers sessile, single or 
clustered in the axils: calyx-lobes of the early flowers 5-4 and short, of the 
corolliferous ones as long as the ovary: capsule oblong or somewhat coni-’ 
cal, the 2 or 3 valvular openings at or below the middle: seeds lenticular. 
Spee grounds and fields, Brit. Columbia to California and the Eastern 
tates. 
3 HETEROCODON Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. viii, 255. 
Slender annual herbs with alternate sessile leaves and blue 
flowers of two forms. The lower and earlier flowers with merely 
rudimentary corolla. Calyx with short tube and large foliaceous 
lobes. Corolla 5-lobed. Capsule obovoid, 3-angled, 3-celled, 
many-seeded, very thin and membranaceous, the delicate walls 
bursting indefinitely on the sides. 
