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Leafy-stemmed, chiefly smooth and _ glaucous, 
coarse weeds, with many-flowered heads in a corymb 
or umbel. 
s. ASPER. Vall. (Rough S.) Stem leaves lobed and 
spiny toothed, the auricles of the clasping base round- 
ed; achenes margined, 3-nerved on each side, smiooth. 
A European weed occasional around the gardens and 
yards of the town and valley. 
2. CAMPANULACEAE. (BELL FLOWER FAMILY). 
Herbs with alternate leaves, scattered, generally 
blue and showy, flowers; regular 5-lobed bell shaped 
or rotate corolla; single style, 2 or more stigmas, and 2 
to several-celled many seeded pod. 
Calyx 3 to 5-lobed; corolla rotate, flowers dimor- 
phous and auxilirary. (1). sPECULARIA. 
Calyx 5-cleft, corolla bell-shaped; flowers all alike 
terminal or axilary, - (2) cAMPANULA. 
1. sprcuLaria. Heister. (Venus Looking-glass). 
Low annuals, with blue or purplish flowers, the 
earlier cleistogamous; stamens with membranaccous 
hairy filiaments, shorter than the anthers, 2 to 4 stig- 
mas and a prismatic or elongated-oblong pod which is 
2 to 4 celled and opens by small lateral valves. 
s. PERFOLIATA. A. D.C. Stem very leafy thruout, 
hirsute or hispid on the angles; leaves round-cordate 
and clasping, mostly crenate, veiny; flowers sessile. 
Sandia Mts. 
2. CAMPANULA. Tourn, BELL-FLOWER. 
Herbs with terminal or auxillary, usually blue, 
flowers, 5 separate stamens with filaments broad and 
membranaceous at base; 3 stigmas and as many cells 
of the ovary, and a short pod opening on the side by 
as many valves or holes. 
C. PETIOLATA. Slender, root leaves round, cordate, 
or ovate, early withering away, stem linear. Sandia 
Mts. Quite common on the Rim-Rock. 
3. CUCURBITACEAE. (courp FAMILy.) 
Mostly succulent herbs with tendrils, alternate pal- 
mately-lobed or veined leaves, monoecious or dioecious 
flowers, calyx tube cohering with the 1 to 3-celled 
ovary. A large tropical family including our cultiva- 
ted squashes, cucumbers, pumpkins and melons. 
CUCURBITA. [, CALABACILLA. 
Prostate scabrous vines, with large yellow flowers, 
monoecious and mostly solitary; calyx com/panulate 
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