478 campanulacejE. 



inflorescence paniculate; corolla exceeding or twice as long as the 

 subulate calyx-lobes, deeply 5-cleft into ovate-oblong lobes. 



Kedwood region from Marin Co. northward. 



4. C. exigua Eattan. Branching from the base and diffuse, 2 

 to 4 or 6 in. high, short-hispid, especially at base; leaves obovate, 

 linear, or the uppermost subulate; flowers erect, lateral or terminal 

 on the branchlets, two kinds on the same plant: — one with slender 

 and rather short style having 3 revolute stigmas at apex and with the 

 dilated bases of the filaments not ciliolate; the other kind with the 

 style longer, conspicuously club-shaped and merely notched at apex, 

 the dilated bases of the filaments ciliolate; corolla of both kinds light 

 blue, 2 to 4 lines long; calyx-lobes subulate-linear, nearly twice the 

 length of the turbinate tube; capsule somewhat urn-shaped, with 3 

 valvular openings just above the middle. — (C. angustiflora Eastwood.) 



Summits of pealis or on the higher ridges of the Coast Eanges: Mt. 

 Hamilton; Mt. Diablo (where first collected by Eattan); Mt. Tamal- 

 pais; Mt. St. Helena. The above description chiefly from Mt. Diablo 

 plants collected by Greene, whence in particular the characterization 

 of the two kinds of styles and stamens which answer to the de.?cription 

 and figures of Miss Eastwood's C. angustiflora and C. exigua respect- 

 ively. (Cf. Proc. Gal. Acad. Sci. 8d Ser. Bot. i. 132, PI. xi.) Our 

 material is scanty but in all probability individual plants will be 

 found possessing only one sort of flowers and this miiy commonly be 

 the case. The corollas are also of two kinds, oblong-eampanulate and 

 tubular. The oblong-eampanulate corolla is associated with both 

 sorts of styles in our Mt. Diablo material; Miss Eastwood's figure 

 shows a tubular corolla associated with the slender-styled form 

 (C. angustiflora). This note, it is hoped, will inspire field-studies 

 of this species along the lines suggested. 



2. SPECULARIA Heister. Venus Lookinq-slass. 

 Annuals with leafy slender stems. Flowers in the axils of the 

 leaves, blue or purplish, 1 or 2-braoteolate. Our species with two 

 kinds of fiowers: the earlier fertilized in the bud, with undeveloped 

 -corolla and 3 or 4 calyx-lobes; the latter with ordinary flowers and 

 5-lobed calyx. Corolla rotate or nearly so, 5-lobed or -parted. 

 Stigmas and cells of the ovary 3, sometimes 2 or 4. Capsule pris- 

 matic or cylindraceous, dehiscent by small valvular openings on the 

 sides at the middle or near the summit. (Latin speculum, a looking- 

 glass.) 



1. S. biflora (E. & P.) Gray. Stems erect, simple or with many 

 branches from the base, 8 to 15 in. high, retrorsely scabrous-hispidu- 

 lous on the angles; leaves ovate, mucronate, sessile, entire, or some- 

 what crenate, 3 to 6 (or the lowermost 8 or 9) lines long; fiowers 

 solitary or in pairs in the axils; corolla blue, exceeding the linear- 

 lanceolate calyx-lobes; capsule 4 lines long, sessile. — (Legouzia biflora 

 Britton. ) 



Low open hills of the inner Coast Eanges, grain fields of the 



