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2. L. Redowskii occidental!;* (Wats.) Rydb. (L. occidentalis 

 (Wats.) Greene). Beggar-ticks. Erect. 4-12 inches high, at 

 length much branched; with rough or hispid pubescence. Leaves 

 narrowly linear or lanceolate. Racemes leafy-bracted; pedicels 

 unequal and leafy; longer, but not twice as long, as fruit. Cor- 

 olla white or pale-blue. Nutlets irregularly tuberculate, the 

 margins armed with a single row of stout, flattened prickles. 

 Dry soil. May-June. 



2. ASPERUGO. German Madwort. 



Annual, rough-bristly procumbent herbs. Leaves alternate, 

 or the lowermost opposite; entire. Flowers small; blue or 

 white, in the axils of the leaves. Calyx campanulate, unequally 

 5-cleft; much enlarged in fruit; the lobes unequally incised- 

 dentate. Stamens 5; included; epipetalous; filaments very 

 short. Ovary 4-divided; style short; stigma capitate. Nutlets 

 4; erect; laterally attached above the middle of the elongated 

 receptacle. 



1. A. procumbent L. Catchweed. Stems slender, 6-18 inches 

 long; very rough with stiff short hairs. Leaves elliptical or 

 lanceolate. Flowers blue, on short pedicels recurved in fruit. 

 Fruiting calyx dry and strongly veined. In fields and waste 

 places, introduced. May-August. 



3. MERTENSIA. Bluebells. 



Erect leafy perennial herbs, not rough-hairy. Leaves al- 

 ternate; entire or nearly so, the lowermost petioled. -Inflor- 

 escence a cyme or panicle. Flowers showy, from purple to 

 blue or white; funnelform or tubular. Stigma entire. Ovary 

 deeply 4-parted. Nutlets 4, rugose at maturity, sessile or 

 obscurely stipitate. 



Anthers included; leaves obtuse 1. M. brevistyla 



Anthers exserted; leaves acute 2. M. foliosa 



1 M. brevistyla Wats. All but the lower surface of leaves 

 pubescent with short appressed rigid hairs; 4-10 inches high. 

 Leaves elliptical to elliptical-lanceolate, obtuse. Flowers in a 

 loose panicle. Calyx 5-cleft, very hirsute. Corolla blue, its 

 tube but slightly longer than calyx, naked within. Anthers 

 inserted near the base of tube. Style very short. (This species 

 is held by some authorities to be a variety of M. alpina Don.) 

 In mountain valleys. May-June. 6,000-7,000 ft. 



2. M. foliosa A. Nelson. Perennial and 1-several stemmed 

 from a vertical rootstalk; 8-12 inches high. Leaves thick; gla- 

 brous; the basal ones numerous, elliptical to oblong, on slender 

 petioles 1-2 times as long; stem-leaves crowded, sessile, ob- 

 lanceolate or becoming lanceolate toward the top. Inflor- 

 escence paniculate, the leafy bracts lanceolate. Corolla rather 

 large, its tube longer than the limb; throat conspicuously 

 crested. On the rocky slopes of the foothills. April-May. 



4. L.ITHOSPERMUM. Puccoon. 



Herbs with erect and pubescent or hairy stems. Leaves 

 alternate; entire; their veins usually indistinct. Inflorescence 

 leafy-bracted; racemose, spicate or panicled. Flowers white, 

 yellow or blue. Calyx narrowly 5-parted or cleft. Corolla 

 5-lobed; funnelform or salverform. Stamens 5, included, borne 



