Campanula. LXXVII. CAMPANULACE^. 365 



Maine, Miss Towle ! to Niagara ! Stem 6 — 12' high, commonly simple. Leaves 

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

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

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

 ments obovate. Aug. 



8. L: LEPTOSTACHYS. DC. Slender-spiked Lobelia. 



Glabrous ; si. ei'ect, virgate, simple ; Ivs. oblong-lanceolate, minutely 

 denticulate, rather acute, sessile ;^s. subsessile, small, in a long, slender spike; 

 cal. segments lanceolate-acuminate, longer than the tube of the corolla ; enacts 

 lance-linear, denticulate, much longer than the pedicels. — Prairies, Western 

 States ! common. Stem 1 — 2f high. Leaves 1 — 3' by by 4 — 8". Raceme 6 — 

 12' in length, the bracts and sepals rather conspicuous. Flowers light blue. 

 Much resembles L. spicata. July. 



9. L. NuTTALLii. DC. (L. gracilis. Nutt.) NutfaU's Lobelia. 

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



remote, subeniire, radical linear-spatulate, cauline linear, rather acute ; /Is. 

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

 base ; cal. segments shorter than the tube of the corolla. — An exceedingly slender 

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

 12" by 1 — ] I". Pedicels 3 — 10" long, blue as well as the flowers. July, Aug. 



2. CLINT ONI A. Douglass. 

 Calyx 5-sepaled, subequal ; corolla bilabiate, lower lip cuneate, 3- 

 lobed, upper erect, 2-parted ; stamens incurved, united into a tube ; 

 capsule silique-form, dry, chartaceous, 1 -celled, many-seeded, dehis- 

 cent by 3 strap-shaped valves. — (D Procumbent herbs with small leaves 

 and axillary., solitary flowers. 



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

 sessile, ovate, 3-veined; o-va. sessile, long-acuminate, triangular, contorted, 

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

 lower lip.— Native of the Rocky Mts., &c. A beautiful annual, with flowers 

 of the most brilliant blue, f 



Order LXXVII. CAMPANULACE^.— Bellworts. 



Herbs with a milky juice, alternate leaves and without stipules. 



Fls. mostly blue, showy. Cal. superior, generally Sclet't, persistent. 



Coi-. regular, campanulate, generally 5-cIeft, withering, valvate in Eestivation. 



Sta. inserted with the corolla upon the calyx, equal in number to, and alternate with, its lobes. 



Anth. Distinct, 2-celled. Pollen spherical. 



Ova. adherent to the calyx, 2 or more-celled. Stijle covered with collecting hairs. 



Fr. — Capsule crowned with the remains of the calyx, loculicidal. Seeds many. 



<3enera 28, species 500, chiefly abounding in the northern temperate zone and in South Africa. Of its 

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

 interesting chiefly tor their beauty, being destitute of any important known properties. 



Geriera. 



Calyx tube short. Corolla campanulate or subrotate Campanula. I 



Calyx tube long, prismatic. Corolla rotate Specularia. 2 



1. CAMPANULA. 



Lat. campanula, a little bell ; from the form of the flowers. 



Calyx mostly 5-cleft ; corolla campanulate, or subrotate, 5-lobed, 

 closed at base by the broad valve-like bases of the 5 stamen's ; stigma 

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

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



1. C. ROTUNDiFOLiA. Rock Bell-flnver. Hair Bell. 



St. weak, slender; radical Ivs. ovate- or reniform-cordate ; cauline miet, 

 linear, entire ; fls. 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 



