^^y > CAMPAMULACK.-E. UUhupsh. 



1. QITHOPSIS, Nutt. 



Flowers all nliko. Ctilyx with u cluvtito lU-iibbed tube, and 5 long and 

 imrmw loliucooub lobua. Corolla tubulur-campanulalo, 5-lobod. Filaiuunla ahoiL, 

 dilalud ut tliu baso. Ovary iJcoUod : btigniua 3. Capsule clavato, ol" lirni tex- 

 ture, strongly ribbed, crowned with the rigid culyxdobos of its own length or 

 longer, opening between them by a round hole left by the falling away of the base 

 of the style. Seeds very numerous, between oblong and fusiform, smooth. — The 

 calyx with its long leafy lobes resembles that of Lychnis Githago, whence the 

 generic name. A single, but variable species, published by Nuttall in Trans. Am. 

 riiil. Soc. n. ser. viii. 258. 



1. G. specularioides, Nutt. Low, annual, an inch to a span higli, either 

 almost glabrous or mure commonly (the var. hirsuUt, Nutt.) the stems or the whole 

 herbage beset with shurt spreading hairs : leaves lanceolate-oblong or linear, sessile, 

 coai-sely toothed : llowers terminating the stem and few branches, slightly pe- 

 duncled, erect : coi'olla deep blue, usually witli a white centre, either shorter or 

 moderately longer than the narrowly linear and rigidly 1-nerved (rarely few-toothed) 

 calyx-lobes ; its lobes ovate : capsule rigid, either sessile or tapering graihially into 

 a thick and rigid peduncle. G. cah/cina, Henth. V\. llartw, 321, a form witii 

 abort corolla and long calyxdobes. G. piddidUt, yidk6, in Linniea, xxxvii. 714, 

 the form with longer corolla. 



Open and low grounds, common tliiougli tlie western portion of the State, extending east to 

 the foot-liills and north to Oregon. 



2. SPECULARIA, Heister. 

 Flowers all alike, or in the American species dimorphous; i. e. some of tlie earlier 

 ones smaller and with merely rudimentary corolla which never opens, close-fertilized 

 in the bud ; these with calyxdobes mostly only 3 or 4. Later are llowers with fully 

 developed corolla, &c. Calyx-tube jjrismatic or elongated-obconical ; the lobes 5, 

 narrow. Corolla sliort and broad, wheelshaped when fully expanded, 5 lobed. 

 Filaments short. Ovary 3 celled, or sometimes 2-celled : stigmas as many. Capsule 

 more or less elongatetl, opening by 2 or 3 small lateral valves which leave a round 

 or oval perforation, usually over a partition. Seeds numerous, ovoid, or rounded 

 and Uattish, smooth. — Annuals; with sessile or clasping cauline leaves, and terminal 

 and axillary blue or puri)le flowers. {Dysmicodon and Campylocera, Nutt. 1. c.) 



1. S. biflora. Gray. Stems slender: leaves closely sessile, ovate or oblong, 

 somewhat crenately toothed, the upper gratlually reduced to lanceolate bracts, 

 which are at length shorter than the {lowers they subtend : flowers one or two in 

 each axil, nearly sessile ; the lower ones mostly with a calyx of 3 or 4 ovate or 

 subulate short lobes and no developed i)etals ; the upper and later ones with f) 

 longer lanceolate-subulate calyx-loluis, which are shorter than the develoj)cd corolla : 

 capsule oblong-cylindra<;(M)us or obscurely prismatic, inconspicuously ribbed, the 

 valvular openings just below tlie sumiuit : seeds lenticular. — Camjxaiula bijiora, 

 Kuiz & Pav. Fl. Per. ii. 55, t. 200, f G. 0. MonttvUleus'is, Spreng. '\ C. Lado- 

 vicicma, Torr. Dysmicodon Cali/ornicion iV <mitum, Nutt. in Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. 

 n. ser. viii. 257. 



Open grounds, near towns and settlements along the coast : perhaps introduced, both here and 

 in the Southern Atlantic States, from S. America. A span to a foot or more in height, simple 

 or witli few branches, glabrous, except usually a line of minute and stout bristles turned back- 

 wards which roughen the angles of the stem and sometimes of the calyx-tube, also on the 

 margins and veins of the haves. The principal stem-leaves only lialf an inch long. Fully 



