208 BOTAIfS". 



MuLGEDiuM PULCHELLUM, Nutt. British America, Oregon and California, 

 and eastward to Upper Michigan; Virginia City, (Bloomer.) From the 

 Truckee Eiver, Nevada, to Prov.o Valley, Utah; 4-6,000 feet elevation; 

 July-September. (726.) 



SoKCHU ASPERS, Villars. Oregon and Cahfornia to the Atlantic. ' ' Proba- 

 bly indigenous to this country, at least to the South ; now found in almost 

 every part of the world." (T. Sf O.) Truckee bottom, canons of the West 

 Humboldt Mountains, Humboldt Valley, and City Creek Canon in the 

 Wahsatch; 4-6,000 feet elevation ; May-September. (727.) 



LOBELIAOEiE. 



DowNiNGiA^ PULCHELLA, Torr. Pac. R. R. Surv. 4. 116. Stem 2-6' 

 long, branching, flexuous, ascending; leaves 3-12" long, ovate and lanceolate, 

 obtuse ; sepals lanceolate, obtuse ; upper lobes of the corolla ovate or lanceo- 

 late, acute, the middle lower lobe somewhat the longest ; capsules becoming 

 2-3' in length. — Corolla bright blue with a yellow or nearly white center, 

 2-6" long. California and Oregon. Found in wet places in the Truckee 

 Meadows, near Gllendale, Nevada. July. (728.) 



CAMPANULACE^. 



Campanula eotundifolia, L. Stems 3-18' in height; quite variable in 

 the length and breadth of the calyx-segments, and the higher alpine form ex- 

 actly like Greenland specimens of C. linifolia, Lam., which with C. Langs- 

 dorffiana is referred to this species by Dr. Hooker without doubt. In its 

 various forms it occurs from Grreenland and the Arctic Ocean to the Northern 

 States and Washington Territory and southward in the Rocky Mountains to 

 Colorado and New Mexico. In the Uintas on the dry rocky banks of Bear 

 River at 8,000 feet altitude, and in wet ground near the summits at an eleva- 

 tion of 11,500 feet; July, August. (729.) 



Campanula unifloea, L. DC. Prodr. 7. 482. Stem 1-flowered; leaves 

 subentire, the lower obovate, petioled, the middle ones obovate-lanceolate, 

 and the upper occasionally linear-lanceolate ; calyx slightly villous, with linear 

 acuminate lobes nearly equaling the funnelform corolla ; capsule cylindrical. — 



iDOWNINGIA, Torr. (CUntonia, Lindl.) Calyx-tube elongated; lobes 5, subequal, lanceolate. 

 Corolla-tube very short, the limb bilabiate ; lower lip cuneate, 3-lobed, the upper 2-parted with erect nar- 

 rower lobes. Stamens united ; lower anthers bearded at the apex. Ovary inferior, l-ceUed, with 2 parie- 

 tal placentae. Capsule chartaoeous, twisted, triangular, dehiscing by 3 Unear valves, many-seeded. — An- 

 nual herbs, with entire sessile leaves and axillary sessile flowers longer than the bracts. 



