Campanula. LXXVIL CAMPANULACEiE. 365 



Maine, Miss Towle ! to Niagara ! Stem &— 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; st. erect, virgate, simple; Ivs. oblong-lanceolate, minutely 

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

 ccd. segments lanceolate-acuminate, longer than the tube of the corolla ; bracts 

 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.) NuttalVs Lobelia. 

 Glabrous ; 5^. erect, very slender, almost filiform, subsimple ; Ivs. few and 



remote, subentire, radical linear-spatulate, cauline linear, rather acute ; fis. 

 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—14". Pedicels 3—10" long, blue as well as the flowers. July, Aug. 



2. CLINT ON I 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, cbartaceous, 1 -celled, many-seeded, dehis- 

 cent by 3 strap-shaped valves. — ® Frocumhent herbs with small leaves 

 and axillary, solitary fiowers. 



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

 sessile, ovate, 3- veined; ova. 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. •\ 



Order LXXVII. CAMPANULACE^.— Bellworts. 



'Herbt with a milky juice, alternate leaves and without stipules. 



Fi» mostly blue, showy. Ca/. superior, generally 5 cleft, persistent. 



Cor. regular, campanulate, generally 5clett, withermg, valvate in eestivation. 



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



Anlh. Distinct, 2-celled. Pollen spherical. „ . ^ • 



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



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



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

 300 gpecles, Rcrordmg to Alphoiise DeCandolle, only 19 inhabit the torrid zone. The campanulaceffi ar« 

 ixiteresling chiclly lor their beauty, being destitute of any important known properties. 



Genera. 



Calyx tube short. Corolla campanulate or subrotate Campanula, l 



Calyx tube long, prismatic. Corolla rotate Specularia. 'i 



1. CAMPANt^LA. 



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



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

 closed at base hy the broad valve-like bases of the 5 stamens ; stigma 

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

 Fls. gemrally hi racemrs, snmetinws spirate, or few and axillary 

 1. C. ROTUNDiFOLiA. Rock Bcll-JUnccr. Hair lidl. 



S^ weak, slender; radical Ivs. ovate- or renilbrm-cordate; cauline (mn. 

 linear, entire; fls. few, nodding.— An exceedingly delicate plant, with blu<', b«Ml- 

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

 Stem a foot or more high, smooth. The root leaves generally J^cav <^'^ J^^ 

 opening of the flowers, so that a specimen with the.se (7 — 10" by 4 — 7') i^ rather 



