210 HEATH FAMILY. 



S. perfdiata, a wild weedy plant in sterile or sandv ground, with simple 

 stems 3' - 20' high, furnished throughout with round-neart-shaped clasping 

 leaves, and small (lowers in their axils, only the later ones expanding a small 

 blue corolla ; pod oblong. 



2. CAMPANULA, BELLFLOWER or HAREBELL. (Diminutive of 

 Italian or late Latin name for bell.) Fl. summer. (Lessons, p. 90, fig. 254.) 



* \\'ild species of the country, all with 3 stigmas and 3-cel/ed pod. 



C. Americana, TALL WILD B. Rich moist ground especially W., with 

 stem 3 - 6 high, thin lance-ovate taper-pointed serrate leaves, ami long loose 

 spike of flowers, the almost wheel-shaped light-blue corolla 1' broad, and lung 

 curved style, (i) 



C. aparinoidcs, SMALL MARSH B. Grassy wet places, with delicate 

 weak stem 8' -20' high, and rou^h backward <>n the angles, bearing small lance- 

 linear leaves and a few small flowers on diverging peduncles, the bell-shaped 

 corolla 3" -4" long. ^ 



C. rotundifolia, COMMON- HAREBELL. On precipices and rocky banks 

 N., with tufted spreading slender stems 5' -12' high, round or heart-shaped 

 root-leaves, dying early, but narrow mostly linear stem-leaves (the specific name 

 therefore unfortunate), and a few slender-peduncled flowers, the blue bell-shaped 

 corolla 6'' - 8" long. 1J. 



* * European species of the gardens : flowers mostly blue, with white varieties. 

 *- Stigmas and cells of the ])od 3 : no apjtendagis to calyx, y. 



C. Carpathica. Smooth, tufted, 6'-10' high, with roundish or ovate 

 petioled small leaves, slender l-flowcred peduncles, and open bell-shaped corolla 

 about 1' long. 



C. rapunculoides. Weedy, spreading inveterately by the root, rather 

 hsriry, the erect leafy stems l-2 high, with lowest leaves heart-shaped and 

 peiioleil, upper lance-ovate and sessile, nodding flowers in the axil of bracts 

 forming a leafy raceme, and tubular-bell-shaped corolla 1' long. 



C. Trachelium. Ronghish-hairy, 2 -3 high, with more coarsely toothed 

 ami broader leaves than the last, and rather larger l>ell-shaped corolla, 



C. persiCSefblia. Smooth, with upright stems l-2i high, and bearing 

 small lanee-linear leaves, rout-leaves broader, all beset witb minute close teeth ; 

 the (lowers nearly ses-ile and erect, rather few in a sort of raceme, the open bell- 

 shaped corolla 1 V - 2' long, sometimes double. 



* +- titiymas ami cells of the pod 5 : calyx with reflexed leafy appendages. (?) (a) 



C. Medium, (T\\TERntiRY BULLS. Erect, branching, hairy, with coarse 

 toothed leaves, and oblong-l>cll-shaped flowers 2' -3' long, often doable. 



3. PLATYCODON. (A Greek-made name, means broad beltjiower.) 11 



P. grandifl.br um. Cult, from SiU-ria; very smooth, pale or glaucous, 

 rather low and spreading, with lance-ovate coarsely toothed leaves, terminal 

 peduncle bearing a showy flower, the broadly expanded 5-lobcd corolla fully 

 2 broad, blue or white, sometimes double, in summer. 



64. ERICACE^I, HEATH FAMILY. 



Very large family, chiefly of shrubs, difficult to define as a whole; 

 the leaves are simple and mostly alternate ; the flowers almost all 

 n-iinlar, and with as many or twice a- many statin n~ as there are 

 petals or lobes of the corolla; their anthers 2-eelled, each cell more 

 commonly opening by a pore or hole at the end ; ovary mostly 

 with as many cells as there are lobes to the corolla ; style only one, 

 and seeds small. 



EPACRIS is a genus and the type of a family or sub-order of 

 Heath-like shrubs, of Australia, some of them cult, in conservatories 



