178 COMMON CANADIAN WILD PLANTS. 



Calyx 5-oleft, the lobes awl-shaped. Lobes of the corolla 

 triangular-ovate, bristle-pointed. Anthers separate. Stem 

 slender and branching, a foot high, the branches raceiried 

 or panioled, about 5-flowered at the summit. — Dry hill-sides. 



4. G. puber'Ula, Michx. Stems erect or ascending, 8-16 

 inches high, minutely rough above. Leaves rigid, lanceolate 

 to linear-lanceolate, 1-2 inches long. Flowers mostly clus- 

 tered. Calyx-lobes lanceolate, much shorter than the bell- 

 funnel-form open bright blue corolla. — High Park, Toronto. 



5. G. alba, Muhl. (Whitish G.) Corolla infiated-club- 

 shaped, at length open, ii-lobed, the lobes about twice as long 

 as the toothed appendages in the Mnusea. Flowers greenish- 

 white or yellowish, sessile, crowded in a terminal cluster. 

 Anthers usually cohering. Leaves lance - ovate, with a 

 clasping heart-shaped base. — Low grounds. 



6. G. Andrews'ii,Griseb. (Closed G.) Corolla inflated- 

 club-shaped, closed at the mouth, the apparent lobes being 

 really the large fringed-toothed appendages. Flowers blue, 

 in a close sessile terminal cluster. Anthers cohering. 

 Leaves ovate-lanceolate from a narrower base. — Low 

 grounds ; common northward, flowering later than No. 3. 



7. G. Amarel'la, L., var. aeu'ta, Hook. Corolla some- 

 what funnel-form, mostly blue, its lobes entire, acute, with a 

 fringed crown at their base. Calyx-lobes (4-5) lanceolate 

 or linear, foliaceous. — Atl. Prov. chiefly. 



"Nfcir. stPleta, Watson, has stem and branches strict, a 

 ivhitish corolla, and a less deeply cleft calyx.— N.W. 



8. G. linea'ris, Proel.,'var. latifolia, Gray. Flowers in 

 a terminal cluster with a leafy involucre. Corolla blue, 

 narrow funnel- form , with roundish-ovate lobesj and broad 

 appendages. Leaves sessile, oblong-linear to ovate-lanceo- 

 late, smooth. Seeds winged.— Boggy places, Atl. Prov. and 

 northward. 



4. SIENYAN'THES, Tourn. Buckbean. 

 G. tFifolia'ta, L. A common plant in bogs and wet 

 places, northward. The bases of the long petioles sheaths 



