178 COMMON CANADIAN WILD PLANTS. 



Calyx 5-cleft, the lobes awl-shaped. Lobes of the corolla 

 triangular-ovate, bristle-pointed. Anthers separate. Stem 

 slender and branching, a foot high, the branches racemed 

 or panicled, about 5-flowered at the summit. Dry hill-sides. 



4. G. puber'ula, Michx. Stems erect or ascending, 8-16 

 inches high, minutely rough above. Leaves rigid, lanceolate 

 to linear-lanceolate, 1-2 inches long. Flowers mostly clus- 

 tered. Calyx-lobes lanceolate, much shorter than the bell- 

 funnel-form open bright blue corolla. High Park, Toronto. 



5. G. alba, Muhl. (WHITISH G.) Corolla inflated-club- 

 shaped, at length open, 5-lobed, the lobes about twice as long 

 as the toothed appendages in the sinuses. Flowers greenish- 

 white or yellowish, sessile, crowded in a terminal cluster. 

 Anthers usually cohering. Leaves lance -ovate, with a 

 clasping heart-shaped base. Low grounds. 



6. G. Andrews'!!, Griseb. (CLOSED G.) Corolla inflated- 

 club-shaped, closed at the mouth, the apparent lobes being 

 really the large fringed-toothed appendages. Flowers blue, 

 in a close sessile terminal cluster. Anthers cohering. 

 Leaves ovate-lanceolate from a narrower base. Low 

 grounds ; common northward, flowering later than No. 3. 



7. G. AmareHa, L., var. aeu'ta, Hook. Corolla some- 

 what funnel- form, mostly blue, its lobes entire, acute, with a 

 fringed crown at their base. Calyx-lobes (4-5) lanceolate 

 or linear, foliaceous. Atl. Prov. chiefly. 



Var. Strieta, Watson, has stem and branches strict, a 

 whitish corolla, and a less deeply cleft calyx. N.W. 



8. G. linea'riS, Froel., var. latifolia, Gray. Flowers in 

 a, terminal cluster with a leafy involucre. Corolla blue, 

 narrow funnel-form, with roundish-ovate lobes, and broad 

 appendages. Leaves sessile, oblong-linear to ovate-lanceo- 

 late, smooth. Seeds winged. Boggy places, Atl. Prov. and 

 northward. 



4. MEffYAN'THES, Tourn. BUCKBEAN. 



G. trifolia'ta, L. A common plant in bogs and wet 

 places, northward. The bases of the long petioles sheathe 



