80 CAMPANULACEAE 
1. Heterocodon rarifldrum Nutt. Heterocodon. Fig. 5094. 
Heterocodon rariforum Nutt. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. IT. ed 1843. 
Specularia rariflorum McVaugh, Leaflets West. Bot. 3: 48. 
eli snes uN with almost —— to piace ies hed, almost filiform stems 1 “ dm. long, 
sparsely hir . Leaves sessile, cordate or gr clasping, orbicular or nearly so, m. broa 
pecan serrate te th br ea ne bein ra eth; ers Phage ae calyx- yal of the tess flowers 
riangular-ov 3-5 mm. long and jelaces ous in gy , often with a road, bristle-tipped 
be calyx- net broadly obpyra rar corolla of the re: pala light Kio or the lobes often 
da rker, pha ¢ qualing oe alyx-lobes; capsule short and a ad. 
Moist banks and boggy meadows, mos stly ae sition Zon British Columbia and Idaho southward through 
the Pacifi Re States and Nevada to the oo of San Hines: yee Dalene. Type locality: ‘‘Grassy plains 
of the Wahlamet and Oregon.’”’ May-—Jul 
5. GITHOPSIS Nutt. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. II. 8: 258. 1843. 
Small annual herbs with angled stems and cuneate-obovate, sessile, usually inconspicu- 
ous leaves. Flowers all alike, solitary in the axils. Calyx with the tube 10-ribbed and the 
5 lobes long, narrow and foliaceous. Corolla caibrilsie-aetaal athe 5-lobed. Stamens with 
short filaments, dilated at base; anthers long and narrow. Ovary 3-celled; stigma 3-lobed. 
Capsule clavate or obconic, strongly striate-ribbed, crowned with rigid calyx -lobes, some- 
what shorter to longer than the tube, opening in the summit by a circular orifice left by 
the falling away of the style. [Name Greek, from the generic name Githago, on account 
of the similarity of the calyces. ] 
A genus of pooper? 3 or 4 variable species, natives of western North America. Type species: Githopsis 
speculartoides Nut 
Capsule narrowly obconic to clavate, 2.5-4 mm. wide at summit; calyx-lobes as long as and usually longer in age 
ian the calyx-tube. 
olla shorter than the calyx-lobes or rarely equaling them. 1. G. specularioides. 
Fe half again as long as the calyx-lobes. 2. G. pulchella. 
Capsule but little enlarged at the summit; calyx-lobes in fruit shorter than the tube. 3. G. diffusa 
1. Githopsis specularioides Nutt. Common Blue-cup. Fig. 5095. 
Githopsis specularioides Nutt. Trans. Amer. ris Soc. IT. 8: 258. 1843 
Githopsis speculariotdes B hirsuta Nutt. loc 
enth. Pl. 
Githopsis calycina var. hirsuta Benth. loc. cit. (Nomen nudum) 
Githopsts latifoliuns Eastw. Proc. Calif. Acad. IV. 20: 154. 1931. 
Githopsis specularioides subsp. candida Ewan, Rhodora 41: 308, 1939. 
Annual with stems pestueeyy branched, erect or the branches ascending or sometimes some- 
what decumbent, simple or nearly so particularly in dwarfed plants, 3-15 cm. long, light green 
or grayish green (glabrate Se hirsute plants in same col naar glabrate or more or less densely 
hirsute and hispid with spreading or deflexed hairs, especially on the ribbed angles of the stem 
i ile, more or t -20 mm. long, abu 
to o 1 
on younger plants, mostly deciduous in yi calyx-tu m. lon ng, pro omg ee ribbed longi- 
tudinally in wine hee rae ee mm. ape a eget calyx- lobes oat mostly as long as the tube 
r longer in fruit and m or less spreading; corolla blue or ste whi te 3-10 m os oe 
the lobes toe tha an the fies ng tube, usu ati Shoeter than the calyx-lobes or savading them 
Mostly in clay or adobe soil on dry slopes, often in burned areas in the chaparral, Sonoran and Transition 
es; western Washington (Chehalis Cou uses) and the Blue Mountains and western Oregon Putte nel through 
the Coast Ranges and Sierra Nevada foothilis of California to Se southern border of the state. Type locality: 
“‘plains of the Oregon, near the outlet of the Wahlamet.”’ April— 
2. Githopsis oe gape Large-flowered Blue-cup. Fig. 5096. 
— pulchella racees sage 38: 
Githopsis specularioides glabra emai ie Fl. Pl. Calif. 974. 1925. 
Annual, 5-15 — soak widely — branching from the base and ay in vigorous 
plants as wide as high, iin erat glabrous or hirsute. gies sessile, 2-10 cm. long, lanceolate 
to linear-lanceolate, few-toothed, rarely pers e, the lower leaves withering at anthesis ; flowers 
sessile or s short-pedincled in the leaf-axils ; r eron es calyx sia mm. long fruiting calyx-tube 
1 irsut inea r 
, glabrous or wi 
glabrous or hirsute, a2 CE preading in age, straight o Baics § pes ‘bhi 15-20 m ong. 
- opes, Upper Sonoran and Arid Transition Zones; at of the Sierra Nevada from Say Couaty 
3 Merk a County, California. Type locality: iy wdhedagals Bridges 153, possibly near the Calaveras Sequoia 
Cisne a ward Bridges is known to have visited. May—Ju 
3. Githopsis diffisa A. Gray. Southern Blue-cup. Fig. 5097. 
Githopsis diffusa A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad, 17: 221. 1882. 
Annual with slender stems, simple or branched above and below with ascending —— 
herbage glabrous except for occasional hairs. Leaves narrowly eet serrulate ; flowers 
