236 PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. campanula. 



jS/fc. K p, 263. C.fiexuosa Mich, fl. I. p. 109 ? C. aspera 

 Do nn Cat. (fide M u h L) 



Boot annual. Stem erect or diffuse, weak, about a foot high, 

 supported by the suiTuundinjj plants, branched towards the 

 top, with abnost winjjed angles. Lp.aves sessile, an inch in 

 length, remotely denticulate. Feofurac/e* spreading. Flo'vrrs 

 small, nodding. Calyx with ovate acute segments. Corolla 

 campa;iuiate, white, with blue veins ; segments ovate. Fila- 

 mentu hairy. Siyle 3-cleft. Capsule glob'jse, 3-celled. Seed» 

 minute, numerous. 



Hab. In wet meadows. Near Elizabeth-Town, New-Jersey. 

 £ ddy. On the banks of the Hudson in various places. Near 

 B jston. Dige I ow. In Pennsylvania. Muhlenberg, 8ic. 

 June — August. 



Tliis species, as Elliott observes, is very nearly allied to 

 C. erinoides of Lin. Mint. 44, which is said to be a native 

 of Africa. Mu hie nb er g, and others, refer to this species 

 alsi, C Jlexuosa of Mic h au x, which is described as be^ 

 ing smooth, with the fijwers on short peduncles I 



165. DIERVILLA. T ournefort. 



Calyx oblong, 5-cleft, bracteate at the base. Corolla 

 infundibuliform, 5-cleft, spreading. Stigina capitate. 

 Sti'nens a little exsertcd. Capsule naked, oblong, 

 4- celled, many-seedtd. Juss.\i.2\\. Nutt. Gen, 

 I. p. 139. Lam. III. tCL. R o e m. ^ SchalU 

 Ge?t. 879. LoNicER^ sp. Lin.y &c. Nat. Ord, 

 Caprifolia Ju ss. 



D. Tourneforln Mich, Fl. T. p. 107. Roem, ^ 

 S chult.Y.p. 1 59. D. humilis Per';. Syn. 1. p. 2 1 4. D. 

 lutea F urs h Fl. \. p. 162. D. canadensis M >i h I. Cat. p, 

 23. Willd. Enwn. h. Berol. I. p. 222. Big. B)sL p. 

 56. Elliott Sk. I. p. 273. Lonicera DiervUla L, 

 Willd. Spec. I. p. 989. 



A shrub 2 — 3 feet high ; branches smooth ; the lower ones 

 somewhat quadrangular. Leaves opposite, ovate, on sh )rt 

 petioles, serrate, acuminate, smooth, about 3 inches in length. 

 Peduncles in the axils of the superior leaves, 2 — 3-fll.)wered. 

 Segments of the calyx less than one half the length of the co- 

 rolla, subulate, smooth ; bracts 2, minute. Corolla yellow, 

 with the segments oblong, unequal. Capsule contracted above. 

 Seeds minute. 



Hab. In rocky woods. June. 



166. LOBELIA, L. 

 -Calyx 5-cleft. Corolla irregular, 5-parted, cleft on 



