CAMPANULACEAE. 



VOL. III. 



5. Campanula glomerata L. Clus- 

 tered Bellflower. Dane's Blood. 

 Fig. 4019. 



Campanula glomerata L. Sp. PI. 166. 1753. 



Perennial by short rootstocks ; stem stout, 

 simple, erect, pubescent, leafy, i-2 high. 

 Leaves pubescent on both sides, crenulate, 

 the lower and basal ones oblong or ovate, 

 mostly obtuse, sometimes cordate, slender- 

 petioled, 2^-4' long, the upper lanceolate or 

 ovate-lanceolate, acute, sessile or clasping, 

 smaller; flowers about i' long, sessile, erect 

 and spreading in terminal and axillary glom- 

 erules ; corolla campanulate, blue, rather 

 deeply 5-lobed ; calyx-lobes lanceolate, acu- 

 minate ; capsule ovoid or oblong, erect, about 

 3" high, opening near the base. 



In fields and along roadsides, eastern Massa- 

 chusetts and Quebec. Naturalized from Eu- 

 rope. Sometimes called canterbury bells, a 

 name more properly belonging to C. medium 

 and C. Tracheliitm. June-Aug. 



6. Campanula aparinoides Pursh. Marsh 

 or Bedstraw Bellflower. Fig. 4020. 



Campanula aparinoides Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 159. 1814. 



Perennial; stems very slender or filiform, weak, 

 reclining or diffuse, rough with short retrorse bris- 

 tles, leafy, paniculately branched, 6'-2 long. 

 Leaves lanceolate, or linear-lanceolate, sessile, 

 sparingly crenulate with low teeth, or entire, 

 rough on the margins and midrib, acute at both 

 ends, i'-ii' long, i"-3" wide; flowers leafy- 

 paniculate, 2$"-4 ' long; pedicels filiform, diver- 

 gent; buds drooping; corolla open-campanulate, 

 deeply 5-cleft, white or bluish-tinged, 2^"-4" long, 

 its tube equalling or longer than the triangular- 

 lanceolate acute calyx-lobes ; style included ; cap- 

 sule subglobose, opening near the base. 



In grassy swamps, Maine to Georgia, Kentucky and 

 Colorado. Called also slender bellflower. June-Aug. 



7. Campanula uliginosa Rydb. Blue Marsh 

 Bellflower. Fig. 4021. 



Campanula uliginosa Rydb.; Britton, Man. 885. 1901. 



Perennial ; similar to the preceding but branches less 

 spreading; stem i-2 long, retrorsely hispidulous on 

 the angles. Leaves linear, \'-2\' long, \ '-2\" wide, 

 retrorsely hispidulous on the margins and midribs, 

 acute, minutely denticulate with callous teeth or entire; 

 corolla blue with darker veins, cleft to below the mid- 

 dle into lanceolate lobes; capsule subglobose, about 2i" 

 long and nearly as broad, opening near the base. 



In wet meadows, New Brunswick to Saskatchewan, New 

 York, Indiana and Nebraska. June-Aug. 



