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pedicels and smooth shining seeds of the latter species. Dr. Gray suggested that 
it might be a depauperate form of LZ. Cliffortiana; but if not entitled to specific 
rank it might better be considered a variety of LZ. Feayana. 
CAMPANULACEAH. (CAMPANULA FAMILY.) 
Herbs, with alternate leaves, scattered (generally blue and showy) 
flowers, adherent calyx, regular 5-lobed bell-shaped or rotate corolla, 
5 stamens usually free from the corolla and distinct, single style, 2 or 
more stigmas, and 2 to several-celled many-seeded pod. 
1. Specularia. Calyx 3 to 5-lobed: corolla rotate: flowers dimorphous and axil- 
lary. 
2 Campanula. Calyx 5-cleft: corolla generally bell-shaped: flowers all alike, 
terminal or axillary. 
1. SPECULARIA Heister, (VENUS’S LOOKING-GLASS.) 
Low annuals, with axillary blue or purplish flowers dimorphous (the 
sarlier cleistogamous), 3 to 5-lobed calyx, rotate 5-lobed corolla, 5 sepa- 
rate stamens with membranaceous hairy filaments shorter than the 
anthers, 2 to 4 stigmas, and a prismatic or elongated-oblong pod which 
is 2 to 4-celled and opens by small lateral valves. 
1. S. leptocarpa Gray. Minutely hirsute or nearly glabrous: stems mostly simple 
or branched from base: leaves lanceolate: flowers closely sessile in their axils: stig- 
mas 2 or 3: cells of ovary as many (or only one in the lower cleistogamous flowers) : 
pods nearly cylindrical, inclined to curve and rarely to twist, opening by 1 or 2 up- 
lifted valves near the summit: seeds oblong.—Throughout Texas. 
2. S. Lindheimeri Vatké. Larger: stems erect or diffuse, paniculately branched 
above: leaves oblong-lanceolate or lower oblong or spatulate: flowers subsessile or 
short-peduncled (commonly terminating branchlets): stigmas 3 or 4: cells of 
ovary as many: pods angular, narrowed to base, mostly straight, not twisted, open- 
ing by 2 or 3 downwardly turned or irregularly bursting small valves below the 
summit: seeds almost orbicular, flattened.—Southern and western Texas. 
3. S. biflora Gray. Stem slender, mostly simple or branched from base, minutely 
and retrorsely serrulate-hispid on the angles: leaves sessile, ovate or oblong, spar- 
ingly somewhat crenate: flowers sessile, single or in pairs in the axils: pod oblong 
and cylindraceous, the 2 or 3 valvular openings close under the calyx: seeds lenticu- 
lar.—Open grounds, throughout Texas. 
4. S. perfoliata A. DC. Stems commonly stouter and simple, very leafy through- 
out, hirsute or hispid on the angles: leaves round-cordate and clasping, mostly cre- 
nate, veiny: flowers sessile, single or clustered in the axils: pod oblong or somewhat 
obconical, the 2 or3 valvular openings at or below the middle: seeds lenticular.— 
Open gravelly ground throughout Texas. 
2. CAMPANULA Tourn. (BELL-FLOWER. HARE-BELL.) 
Herbs, with terminal or axillary (usually blue) flowers, 5-cleft calyx, 
generally bell-shaped 5-lobed corolla, 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 sides by as many valves or holes. 
1. C. rotundifolia L. Slender, branching, 10 to 30 cm. high, 1 to 10-flowered: 
root-leaves round-cordate or ovate, mostly toothed or crenate, long-petioled, early 
withering away; stem-leaves numerous, linear or narrowly lanceolate, entire, smooth: 
calyx-lobes awl-shaped: pod nodding, opening at or near the base.—In the moun- 
tains of extreme southwestern Texas. 
