LOBELLU L.T.. 



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Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys, and south westward to Pajaro 

 (H. P. Chandler). Apr.-May. 



3. HETEROCODON Nutt. 



Annual:^. Like Specularia in habit and the flowers of two kinds, 

 the earlier with 3 or 4, the later with o calyx-lobes which are large 

 and leaf-like and much longer than the obpyramidal tube. Corolla 

 open-canipanulate, 5-lobed. Capsule 3-celled. 3 -angled, bursting by 

 mostly irregular longitudinal Assures in the thin -paces between the 

 angles or ribs. (Greek heteros, different, and kodon, bell, the flowers 

 . campanulate and of two different kinds.) 



1. H. rariflorum Nutt. Very slender, with filiform steins 1} to 

 9 in. high; leaves roundish, 1£ to 5 lines long, sessile, truncate or 

 subcordate at base, sharply toothed, the teeth bristle-pointed and the 

 margin between the teeth frequently ciliate-bristly ; flower solitary; 

 calyx sparsely hispid, its lobes 3 to 5, mostly 3 or 4, when 4 or 5 one 

 or two smaller; flowers solitary; calyx-lobes ovate, foliaceous and 

 sparingly toothed, 1 to 3 lines long; corolla scarcely evident, or the 

 later flowers with well developed light blue corolla (the short lobe- 

 darker), the tube 1£ to 2 lines long; style apparently short-puberulent. 



Coast Kanges (Berkeley, Napa Valley, Lake Co. and northward); 

 Sierra Nevada; Southern California. Apr., or as late as July in the 

 higher mountains. 



4. GITHOPSIS Nutt. 



Annual herbs. Calyx-tube cuneate, strongly 10-ribbed. adnate up 

 to the summit of the ovary, with 5 linear foliaceous lobes. Corolla 

 tubular-campanulate, o-lobed. Filaments short, dilated at the base; 

 anthers long and linear. Ovary 3-celled; stigma 3-lobed. Capsule 

 coriaceous, crowned with the rigid calyx-lobes of its own length, 

 strongly striate-ribbed, many-seeded, dehiscing by a perforation at 

 the apex in the place where the persistent style falls away. (Name 

 from Githago, the calyx resembling that of the Corn-Cockle.) 



1. G. specularioides Nutt. Steins simple or with 1 or 2 prolif- 

 erous branches, these in turn sometimes proliferous, 4 to 7 in. high; 

 herbage retrorsely rough-pubescent or glabrous; upper leaves oblong, 

 or narrower, 3 to 5 lines long, the lowermost obovate. 1 or 2 line- 

 long, all sharply few-toothed; calyx-lobes 3 to 8 lines long, eventually 

 callous-ribbed, shorter than or 3 or 4 times as long as the corolla; 

 corolla purplish, its lobes shorter than the tube; capsule rigid, 

 tapering into a short and stout peduncle. 



Open ground in the hill country of the Coast Ranges (Round 

 Valley, Napa Valley, Sonoma); Sierra Nevada. The var. DIFFUSA 

 (G. diffusa Gray) is nearly glabrous; sinuses of the calyx hispidulous. 

 — Vaca Mountains; Southern California. 



100. LOBELIACE/E. Lobelia Family. 



Herbs with alternate leaves. Flowers in racemes, complete. 

 Calyx-tube adnate to the ovary, its free border with 5 distinct lobes or 



