92 CAMPANULACEAE 
minutely scabrous. Leaves narrowly linear to linear, 0.2-2 mm. wide, 3-13 mm. long; inflorescence 
loosely 1-20-flowered ; bracts linear to sere elliptic, 4-12 mm. long, mm. wide; calyx-lobes 
wae > oblanceolate, ascending, 3-10 mm. long; corolla 7-15 mm. long, glabrous, bright or pale 
blue o lavender, rarely white, the tube ease phe: a to almost cylindric, the dorsal and 
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evr’ sinuses about equally cleft, the lateral slightly cut below the surface of lower ip; upper 
lobes ovate, acute, slightly divergent or recurved and overlapping in age; lower li plane or ae 
aring 1 d wi 
so, with a cent more or c t 
yellow ridges at base, the lobes broadly ovate or oblong, rounded to retuse at apex ; upper lip diteer 
than the lower, purple-veined ; filament-tube glabrous, included ; Antheks tube gl abrous or sparsely 
ten dorsally, = minutely white-tufted at apex, the 3 shorter also React a short, horn-like 
ocess ; calyx-tu nape or slig tly sl in fruit, 2-4 cm. long in fruit; seeds shining, the fine 
face running cuencty o the ae axis of t pie 
Clay soils of pervs vernal pools and yn an Zones; Humboldt and Shasta Counties south t 
San Diego County, California. Type locality: ane Sar west of Yountville, Napa Co., Calif.” April ie eth 
6. Seoul pusilla (G. Don) Torr. South American Downingia. Fig. 5118. 
Lobelia pusilla Poepp. ex Cham. Linnaea 8: 217. 1833. (Nomen nudum) 
Clintonia Crea a rate on, Gen. Hist. Pl. 3: 718. 1834. 
Downingia pusilla Torr. Bot. Wilkes Exp. 17: 375. 1874. 
hater humilis vail Pittonia 2: 226. 
ingta humilis Greene, Leaflets Bot. Obs. ‘2: 45. 1910. 
om glabrous throughout or the caly ii minutely scabrous, 2-12 cm. high. Leaves 0.5-1 
mm mm. long; Rgoicciegeees 7 tow red; floral bracts elliptic lanceolate, 2-8 mm. 
long; calyx-lobes 3-8 mm. long, or appre , surpassing the corolla; Shee 2.5-4 mm. 
long, glabrous, whit “the lower lip blue-tipped, the upper and 1 about equally 
= = arrowly campanulate, —2 ong, pper lobes deltoid “ate eolate, about 
erect ; lower dl spreading, with white by centrally bearing a yellow pa ea 
rates the 3 thhies deltoid, g:-sta -tube 2 a he hite-apiculate, the 
. lon tamen-t m. 
2 shorter with a blunt, ci process and a few br inten t apex; ovary 2-celled ; capsule linear, 
2-3 cm. long an subulate : seeds marked with oblique oes, appearing twisted. 
Moist flats, ae See sparingly introduced or possibly native in Napa, pace: Stanislaus, and 
Merced Counties, California; also Chile and Argentina. Type locality: Chile. Nepid os 
7. Downingia pulchélla (Lindl.) Torr. Flat-faced Downingia. Fig. 5119. 
oeeenen Lgaee ete Bot. be 22: pl. 1909, 1836. 
he Pacif. R. Rep. 44: 116. 1857. 
Bolelia eaihate Geteie: steer 2: 126. 1890. 
Plants up to rh = high, glabrous ae cling or the calyx-tube sometimes a a 
Leaves pie eal linear, 1-2 mm. wide, 4-12 mm. long; inflorescences few-flowered up to 15-20- 
flowered ; flor af bracts varyin from Ripe glace | to ovate, usually elliptic ; cabeetibes aealls > 
‘ately pond 3-10 mm. long ; corolla 8-13 mm. long, glabrous, deep bright blue varying to p 
or white ; tube purple, 23 mm. lon ng, pode — oo + Uppes eg oe 2-cleft, the lobes elliptic 
to oblanceolate, spreading, 8 m lon ; lower lip eading in same plane as 
upper, the lateral sinuses somewhat de Piss Sh pote ith a cen les al white area bearing 2 yellow 
spots that extend down the pa Fase folds at io of lip, 3 dark purple spots afer rating with the 
bogs aga rel lobes oblong, acute, or mucronate; filament- tube longer than corolla-tu 4.5 
m. long; tube attenuate, the anthers gla brous oe minutely ol ate-tufted apically, the 2 
shocks | Pay with slender, horn-like processes ; capsule linear, 3-7 cm. long, narrowly subulate 
or fusiform, the walls tough in texture; seeds shining, without fine lin na 
Adobe or alkaline soil of vernal pools and ditches, Sonoran Zones; California from Lassen and Colusa 
Counties south to Merced and Monterey Counties. Type locality: California. Collected by Douglas. April—June. 
8. Downingia insignis Greene. Cupped Downingia. Fig. 5120. 
owningia insignis Greene, Pittonia 2: 80. 1890. 
Bolelia insignis Greene, op. cit. 126. 
Stems very slender, somewhat zigzag, 1-3 dm. high, glabrous throughout - the calyx-tube 
sometimes somewhat scabrous. ves narrowly linear, 5-15 mm. long, 1-2 mm. wide; inflores- 
cence 4-20 cm. long, usually about 5-flowere d but varying to (6 scwent: floral | baiag elliptic to 
fe) 
a rin; 
patch, this sometimes reduced to 3 purple spots, the lip concave, not reflexed, and usually shorter 
than the upper lip; filament-tube glabrous; anther-tube usually strongly incurved at right angles 
a ees tube ; anthers and connectives whitish in color, granular-roughened throughout, the 2 shorter 
white-tufted at pr mi ouaey 2-celled ; ideas A 3-8 cm. long, the lateral walls tough and break- 
i gots = ie ak sted. al § 
Low fie! d depressions, am ; California in northern Sacramento Valley south to ce Cou ag 
cos Costa ¢ a County bg Segorng sen County and occurring Bee wie: Rem a I phase ag Vs mad he es 
