Casipanl-la. LXXVII. CAMPANULACE^. S65 



Main •, ^Tisa Towle ! to Niagara ! Stem 6 — 12' high, commonly simple. Leaves 

 most", - linear, sessile, an inch long and I — 2" wide, upper ones entire, lower 

 with riinute teeth. Flowers remote, alternate, on axillary pedicels which are 

 but li tie shorter than the leaf-like bracts. Corolla pale-blue, the 3 lower seg- 

 ment: obovate. Aug. 



1 L. i.EPT *TACHYs. DC. Slender-spiked Lobelia. 



Grlabrous; st. erect, virgate, simple; hs. oblong-lanceolate, minutely 

 denti uhite, rather acute, sessile ;y?s. subsessile, small, in a long,. slender spike; 

 =««/.. s. ^7«crtfo lanceolate-acuminate, longer than the tube of the corolla; bracts 

 lanct linear, denticulate, much longer tjian tlie pedicels. — Prairies, Western 

 State ! common. Stem 1 — 2i' high. Leaves 1 — '2' by b}^ 4 — 8". Raceme (i — 

 12 ii length, ihe bracts and sepals rather conspicuous. Flowers light blue. 

 Muc . resembles L. spicata. July. 



9. L. NuTTALLii. DC. (L. gracilis. Nutt.) NuttalVs Lobelia. 



Grlabrous ; st. erect, very slender, almost filiform, subsimple ; Ivs. few and 

 remc e, subentire, radical linear-spatulate, cauline linear, rather acute ; Jls. 

 few, : emote; pedicels twice longer than the corolla or the 2 subulate bracts at 

 base I cal. ."^cgiiicnis shorter than the tube of the corolla. — An exceedingly slender 

 plant, around sandy .swamps, N. J. ! 1 — 2f high., often branched. Leaves 6 — 

 12' t v 1 — ' V- Pedicels 3 — 10" long, blue as well as the flowers. July, Aug. 



2. CLINT ONI A. Douglass. 



Cfiyx 5-6epale<3, subequal ; corolla bilabiate, lower lip cuneate, 3- 

 Iobe>l, upper erect, 2-parted ; stamens incurved, united into a tube ; 

 caps lie siiique-form, dry, chartaceous, 1 -celled, many-seeded, dehis- 

 cent by 3 strap-shaped valves. — (D Procumbent herbs loith smalt leaves 

 and, .ixillary., solitary flowers. 



C. ELECiNs. Doug. — Glabrous, sparingly branched ; st. slender, angular ; Ivs. 

 sessiJi, ovate, 3-veined; trca. sessile, long-acuminate, triangular, contorted, 

 mucl. longer than the leaves; cor. blue, with a white spot in the middle of the 

 lowe Jip. — Nati\-e of the Rocky Mts., &c A beautiful annual, with flowers 

 of th; most brilliant blue, f 



Or.DER LXXVII. CAMPANULACE^^.— Bellworts. 



Herbs vith a miikyjirice, alternate leaves and without stipules. 



Fli. ir. jstly blue, showy. Cal. superior, generally 5-cleft, persistent. 



Cor. r(;gular, cannpanulate, generally S-cleft, withering, valvate in aestivation. 



Sla. in .srted with the corolla upon the caiyx, equal in number to, and alternate with, its lobes, 



Anth. Di.stinct, 2-celled. Pollen, spherical. 



Ova. i: iherent to the calyx, 2 or more-celled. Style. co\'ered with collectins hairs. 



Fr. — C;:psuie erowued with the remains of the calyx, leculiciual. Seedsmiiny. 



Genera 28, species 500, chiefly abounding in the northern temperate zone and in South Africa. Of ita 

 300 species, according to Alphonse DeCandolle, only 19 inhabit the torrid zone. The campanukces are 

 j;iteref-ing chiefly for their beauty, being destitute of any important known properties.. 



Genera. 



Calyx 'ube short. Corolla campanulate or subrotate Campanu7a. I 



Calj-x ube long, prismatic. Corolla rotate Specularia. v. 



1. CAMPANULA. 



Lat. ca77!pa!iu!a, a little bell ; from the form of the fio%vers. 



C ilyx mostly 5-cleft : corolla campanulate. or subrotate, 5-lobed, 

 clos-.d at base by the broad valve-like ba.ses of the 5 stamens ; stigma 

 3 — i-cleft ; capsule 3 — 5-celled, opening by lateral pores. — Mostly %■ 

 Fls. generally in racemes, somciimes spicate, or few and axillary 



N^l. C. ROTUNDiFOLiA, Rock Edl-flrriver. Hair Sell. 



^S'. weak, slender; radical Irs. ovate- or renifbrm-cordate; ca,ulive onei 

 iinei r, entire; Jls. few, nodding, — An exceedingly delicate plant, with blue, bell- 

 shaped flowers. On damp rocks and rocky streams, N. States and Brit. Am. 

 Stem a foot or more high, smooth. The root leaves generally decay on the 

 opening of the flowers, so that a specimen with these (7 — 10" by 4 — 7") is rather 



