CAMPANULACEiE. 229 CAMPANULA, 



smooth, linear, 2 inches lon^and scarcely a line in width. Flowers terminal, 

 in a loose panicle, drooping. Root creeping, perennial. June, July. 



Covinwn Bell-Jiowcr. Hair Bell . 



2. C. AMPLEXICAU'LIS. Mx. C. perfoliata. L. 

 Stem simple, rarely branched, erect; leaves cordate, crenate, amplexicaul ; 



fimcers sessile, aggregate, axillary. Plant somewhat hairy, a foot high, found 

 in fields and roadsides. The strict, upright stem, is furnished with distant, 

 short, alternate, heart-reniform, veiny, stem clasping leaves, containing 1 — 4 

 crowded flowers in the concavity of their upper surface. Flowers axillary 

 and terminal, the upper clusters larger. Corolla blue or purple, with spread- 

 ing segments, calyx segments acute, lanceolate. June, July. Ann. 



Slcm-dasping Bell-Jiowcr. 



3. C. APARINOI'deS. p. C. erinoides. Mx. 



Stem flaccid, slender, branching above, triangular, the angles inversely 

 aculeate; /e«Be5 linear-lanceolate ;jZ(;icers terminal. A slender annual, found 

 in wet meadows. Stem 12 — 18 inches high, its 3 angles rough backwards, 

 by means of which it supports itself upright among the grass. Leaves smooth 

 on the upper surface, denticulate, the margin and nerves rough backwards. 

 Flowers small, white, on thread-like, flexuous peduncles at the top of the 

 stem. June— Aug. Prickly Bell-flowLr. 



4. C. america'na. 



Stem erect; leaves ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, uncinately serrate, the 

 lower ones often cordate ; pelidles cihate ; floiccrs axillary, sessile ; style 

 exsert. A tall, erect, ornamental species in fields, hills, &c., in Western 

 IV. Y. and Penn. Also cultivated in gardens. Stem 2— 3 feet high, nearly 

 smooth. Leaves ending in a long point, smooth, with fine teeth. Flowers 

 blue, flat, on short stalks or sessile, numerous, solitary or several in each upper 

 axil, forming a terminal, leafy raceme. Corolla spreading. Aug. Per. 



Jlvicricaii Bell-flaiccr. 



5. C. ME'dIUM. — Sfcm simple, erect, hispid ; /farrs lanceolate, obtusely 

 serrate, sessile, 3-nerved at base ; flvwers erect. An ornamental border flower, 

 from Germany, and of the easiest culture. Root biennial. Stem several feet 

 in hight, undivided, rough with bristly hairs. Flowers very large, the base 

 broad, limb reflexed, of a deep blue. Several varieties occur with double or 

 single flowers, of blue, red, purple and white corollas. June — Sept. 



Canterbury Bell, 



6. C. SPE'cULUM. — 5;cmdiffuse, very branching; Genres oblong-crenate ; 

 jloicers solitary ; scales at the base of the corolla sometimes wanting. A pretty 



border flower named from the form of the blue corolla, which resembles a little, 

 round, concave mirror (speculum). Aug. Ann. Venus' Looking-glass. 



Several other foreign species of this genus are beautiful objects in cultiva- 

 tion, as C. lanugiaosa, with ovate, crenate, rugose and somewhat woolly 

 leaves, tapering into the petiole ; flowers blue, an inch long. C. Ulifulia, with 

 lanceolate leaves and pale blue flowers. C. glomeruta, with crowded, sessile 

 violet-colored flowers. C. jicrsicifolia, peach-leaved, with broad, blue flow- 

 ers; «S:c. 



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