BLUEBELL FAMILY 81 
. Heterocodon cable 5096. Githopsis pulchella 
see Githopsis specularioides 5097. Githopsis diffusa 
tered, sessile or short-pedicellate on the branches ; flowering calyx 8-10 mm. long, the lobes on 
ean oe the length of the tube; fruiting calyx 9-11 m m. long, essentially linear, little edireen 
the 5 OB cuously r rib ; fruiting ‘calyx- -lobes Soe ascending or spreading, shorter 
than fie “tube n fruit; corolla “light purple,” 3-5 mm. long, shorter than the calyx-lo 
seabed and wanes eg Arid Transition Zone; San Gabriel Mou er _ Angeles and San Ber- 
nardino ‘Comnnien: California. Type locality: ees Cacamonga San Gabriel Mountai May-June. 
se —_— gilioides fe Apel 41: 31 w plant much branched from the cas with persistent, 
hirs glabrate leaves; cathe 4-5 mm. ce cinenlion: 4 the calyx. Known only from the San Gabriel Moun- 
tains, southern California. Type locality: forks of the San Gabriel River. Possibly a fucitant hitentulons form 
us 
Githopsis filicailis Ewan, op. Feb — lax annual with few widely spreading branches and minute 
flowers 3- 6 mm. long and calyces 355 long. Known ag Mission Canyon, San Diego County, California, 
the type locality, and from Vallecito (Orcutt), ae Californ 
Subfamily 2, LOBELIOIDEAE.* 
LoBELIA SUBFAMILY. 
Ours herbs with acid juice, alternate or basal, exstipulate, eee leaves and spicate 
or racemose, often leafy-bracted flowers. Calyx-lobes 5, equal; calyx-tube adnate to 
or partly free from the ovary, turbinate, ovoid or hemispheric. Conde gamopetal- 
ous, usually persistent on withering, often split down one side, 2-lipped, with 2 lobes 
* Keys and taxonomic treatment are based largely on the works of Rogers McVaugh. 
