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1. V. ceratophylla (Hook.) Piper. (V. edulis Nutt.) To- 

 bacco Root. Sterns smooth, erect; 1-4 ft. high from thick 

 tap-roots. Leaves mostly basal; oblanceolate to spatulate, 

 narrowed into a long-margined petiole; entire or laciniate- 

 pinnatifid. Flowers yellowish-white; very small; polygamo- 

 dioecious; in a long, slender, interrupted panicle. Fruit small. 

 In moist places in mountain valleys. April-August. 



2. V. acutiloba Rydb. Perennial from a horizontal or ascend- 

 ing rhizome. Stems 12-20 in. high. Basal leaves entire, 

 spatulate or obovate, with a short, wing-margined petiole. 

 Stem-leaves usually 3 pairs on the pistillate plants and 2 pairs 

 on the staminate ones; pinnately divided, the divisions narrow 

 and long-acuminate. Cyme dense, glandular-puberulent. Cor- 

 olla funnelform with very short tube. Ovary and fruit smooth. 

 In rather dense shade in rich moist soil in the mountains. 

 May -August. 



2. VALERIANELLA. Corn Salad; Lamb's Lettuce. 



Dichotomously-branched. Basal leaves tufted and entire; 

 stem-leaves sessile, usually dentate. Calyx-limb wanting or 

 nearly so. Corolla white, blue or pink; its tube narrowed at 

 the base. Stamens 3. Style minutely 3-lobed at apex. Ovary 

 3-celled. 



1. V. macroccra (Torr. & Gray) A. Gray. (Plectritis macro- 

 cera T. & G.) Stem slender, 3-8 inches high; unbranched or 

 slightly branched. Leaves linear to narrowly oblong. Spur of 

 corolla longer than its tube. Fruit with conspicuous, broad 

 wings; obscurely keeled on back; more or less hispid. In dry 

 soil. May-June. 



ORDER CAMPANULAl^ES. 



CAMPANULACEJE. Bell-flower Family. 



Herbs with milky juice. Leaves simple ; alternate ; 

 exstipulate. Corolla sympetalous, regular, 5-lobed. 

 Stamens 5; distinct. Style 1, usually hairy above; 

 stigmas 2 or more. Ovary ''inferior." Capsule 2- 

 several-celled, many-seeded. 



1. SPECUL.ARIA. (Legouzia). Venus' Looking Glass. 

 Annual. Flowers sessile; axillary; blue or purplish; di- 

 morphous (the earlier small and cleistogamous). Calyx 5- 

 (or 3-4-) lobed. Corolla wheel-shaped. Filaments hairy, 

 shorter than the anthers. Capsule prismatic or slender-cylin- 

 drical; 3-celled. opening by 3 lateral valves. 



1. S. perfoliata k (L.) A. DC. (L. perfoliata (L.) Britton). 

 Erect, somewhat hairy. %-3 ft. high. Leaves ovate or roundish, 

 clasping by the heart-shaped base. Flowers solitary or 2-3 in 

 the axils; all but the upper ones cleistogamous. Capsule ellip- 

 soid, short,, straight, opening at or below the middle. Rather 

 dry, open, stony ground. May-July. 



