Bell flows ¥ 
Campanulaceae. Siuebeit Family. 
Herbs with alternate simple leaves without stipules. Flowers 
regular, perfect, in racemes or solitary. Sepals 5, persistent. Corolla 
campanulate, regular, tubular or rotate » the lobes valvate in the bud. 
Stamens 5. Ovary inferior, 2-5-chambered; Style 1. Fruita capsule. 
QO Stem leaves ovate or rotund; flowers axillary 
a Capsule top-shaped, bursting irregularly between 
Gthe ribs |, Heterocodon 
Z Capsule ellipsoid, opening by 2 or 3 lateral pores _2. Specularia 
© Stem leaves linear; flowers in terminal racemes, 
4 rarely solitary &. Campanula 
). Hetérocodon Nutt. 
Low annuals with alternate sessile leaves. Flowers axillary, of two 4 
sorts, the earlier cleistogamous, ie. fertilized in the bud, having no ¥ 
proper corolla, the later bearing a normal corolla. Sepals 5, the calyx 
tube obovate. Corolla short-campanulate, 5-lobed. Stamens 5. Capsule 
top=-shaped, thin walled, 5-chambered, S-angled, bursting irregularly on 
the sides. 
i. He. rariflorum Nutt. Stems very slender, commonly less than .5 
mm. in diameter, unbranched or sometimes branching from the base, somewhat 
angled, glabrous, 10-30 om. tall; leaves canmonly remote, subrotund, sessile 
and clasping, sharply toothed, 5-15 mm. in diameter, glabrous; flowers 
solitary and sessile in the axils, the corollas of the flowers sudi- 
blue, 4-5 mm. long, 5-lobed, tubular-funnelform; calyx 
tubes sparsely hispid, the lobes unequal, ovate, toothed; 2.5-3 mm. long, 
rsistent; capsules subglobose 2.5-3 mm. in diameter. (Specularia rariflora 
(Nutt.) McVaugh), 
Sandy moist places near Rathdrum, Heller 712. 
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