Bellflower Family 387 



the branches or becoming lateral, erect, all alike. Calyx- 

 tube club-shaped, strongly 10-ribbed, adnate to the sum- 

 mit of the ovary, its limb of 5 long and linear foliaceous 

 lobes. Corolla tubular-campanulate, 5-lobed. Fila- 

 ments short, dilated at the base ; anthers long, linear. 

 Ovary 3-celled ; stigma 3-lobed. Capsule club-shaped, 

 coriaceous, crowned with the rigid calyx-lobes of its own 

 length, strongly striate-ribbed, many-seeded, opening when 

 the somewhat persistent base of the style falls away 

 by a round hole in its place. Seeds fusiform-oblong. 



1. G. specularioides Nutt. Stems simple or with 1-2 prolifer- 

 ous branches, 5-20 cm. high, hirsute or glabrate; leaves linear- 

 oblong, 6-10 mm. long, the lower obovate, 2-4 mm. long, all 

 sharply few-toothed; calyx-lobes 6-18 mm. long, shorter than or 

 much exceeding the corolla; corolla purplish, its lobes shorter 

 than the tube ; capsule turgid, tapering into a very short peduncle. 



Hills about Soldiers Home, Hasse. 



3. NEMACLADUS Nutt. 



Low and diffusely branched annuals, with numerous 

 capillary branches, cauline leaves minute, sessile, sub- 

 tending the dichotomous branches. Flowers minute on 

 rather long capillary pedicels. Calyx partly or wholly 

 free. Corolla bilabiate, the upper lip 2-lobed or 2-parted, 

 the lower 3-lobed or 3-parted. Filaments monadelphous 

 to near the base ; anthers oval, glabrous. Style incurved 

 at the tip ; stigmas capitate, 2-lobed. Capsule 2-celled, 

 2-valved from the tip, 7-40-seeded. 



1. N. ramosissimus xnontanus (Greene) Gray. Glabrous 

 throughout or sparsely puberulent below and occasionally with 

 some villous hairs at the base of the pedicels ; stems diffusely and 

 dichotomously branched, very slender, 1-2 dm. high ; basal leaves 

 obovate, denticulate, 1 cm. long; pedicels 1-1.5 cm. long, curved 

 upward; calyx about 2 mm. long, the lobes equaling the tube; 

 corolla white, slightly exceeding the calyx; capsule 7-12-seeded; 

 seeds favose-reticulated, ovate-oblong. 



Frequent in open pine forests in the San Gabriel and San Bernardino 

 Mountains. 



