25G DESCRIPTION OF NEW SPECIES 



Stigmas three, filiform, revolute. Capsule linear-obconic, even, and com- 

 pressed, two and three-celled, opening laterally by a small deciduous oper- 

 culum. Seeds even, sublenticular. North American and Californian 

 annuals, with alternate, amplexicaule roundish or ovate denticulate leaves. 

 Flowers axillary, sessile, blue. Nearly allied to Specularia, but with a 

 different habit, calyx and seed; and with the lower flowers apetalous and 

 reduced in the number of their parts. 



Dysmicodon perfoliatum, stem simple, erect, with the angles hirsute, leaves 

 amplexicaule, broad, ovate or roundish, denticulate; flowers axillary, solitary, 

 or by three's; lobes of the calyx in the lower flowers three and four lanceo- 

 late, acute, nearly half the length of the adnate tube. Campanula perfoliata, 

 Linn. Specularia perfoliata. Dec and. 7. p. 491. 



Hab. Throughout the United States, to the shores of the Pacific. Capsule opening about the 

 middle. 



Dysmicodon Californicum; stem erect, nearly simple, branching from the 

 base, nearly without angles, and somewhat hirsute with spreading or retrorse 

 hairs; radical leaves roundish and petiolate; cauline amplexicaule, ovate ob- 

 tuse, obscurely crenulate, nearly entire, ciliate; flowers solitary, sessile; the 

 calyx lobes about one-fourth the length of the adnate tube; capsule opening 

 towards the summit. 



Hab. In shady woods near Santa Barbara, Upper California. A very slender species allied to 

 the preceding, but perfectly distinct. Lateral capsules two-celled, with three calyx-lobes. The per- 

 fect flower I have not seen. 



Dysmicodon ovatum; stem erect, simple, smooth or somewhat hirsute on the 

 angles; leaves ovate, acute, with very shallow crenatures, amplexicaule, radical 

 ones spathulate-oblong ; flowers one to three in the axills, sessile; the calyx 

 lobes about one-fourth the length of the adnate tube; capsule opening towards 

 the summit. Campanula intermedia, Dr. Engelmann, (non R. and Schultz.) 

 Near Fort Gibson, Arkansas. 



Specularia. Torrey, MSS. 



Hab. Arkansas and Louisiana. With all the aspect of the first species, producing perfect pelvi- 

 form blue flowers at tlie extreme summit only; in tliese the lobes of tlie calyx are lanceolate, acute, 



