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ovary, the limb 3-5-lobed, usually persistent ; corolla inserted 

 at the top of the calyx tube, 5-lobed, often bilabiate with the 

 tube split to the base on one side ; stamens 5, alternate witli 

 the lobes of the corolla, filaments and anthers distinct or 

 united ; ovary 1-o-celled, style single, smooth or bearded ; 

 fruit a capsule. 



I. CAMPANULA. 



Annual, biennial or perennial herbs ; flowers solitary, 

 racemed or spiked, regular, blue or white ; calyx 5-lobed or 

 parted ; corolla rotate to bell-shaped, 5-lobed ; stamens 5, 

 free from the corolla, distinct, filaments dilated at the base ; 

 ovary 3-5-celled, many-ovuled, style 3-parted ; capsule short, 

 bearing the persistent calyx lobes at its apex, many-seeded, 

 dehiscent on the sides. • 



C. Amehicaxa L. Tall Bell-flower. Annual or biennial; 

 stem erect, slender, smooth or pubescent, simple or with a few ascend- 

 ing branches above, 2-5 ft. high ; leaves ovate to lanceolate, acumi- 

 nate at the apex, tapering below into a short petiole, serrate, thin ; 

 flowers in an elongated, leafy spike, single or '2-4 together; calyx 

 lobes slender, spreading ; corolla bine, 1 in. wide, rotate ; style curved, 

 long-exserted ; capsule strongly ribbed, longer than the calyx lobes. 

 June-Septeml)er. In moist, open woods. 



II. LEGOUZIA. 



Annual ; stems slender, angled ; leaves entire or toothed ; 

 flowers axillary, regular, solitary or in small clusters, ses- 

 sile, bracted ; calyx tube slender, 3-5-i)arted ; corolla rotate, 

 5-lobed ; stamens with the filaments flattened and shorter 

 tlian the anthers ; ovary 3-celled, many-ovuled, stigmas 3 ; 

 Iriiit a prismatic, 3-cell('(l, niimy-secded ('a])Siile. 



1. I^. iiiKLOKA (H. \ ]*.) l>ritt. Si'KCTLAKiA. Stem erect, sim- 

 ple or l)ranclu'd from lli<- l»;isc, ;iiil;1«'s roughened. lO-'JO in. high ; 

 leaves ovate to lanceolate, acnte at the apex, sessile, crenatt* or entire, 

 the uj)per bract-like; Howers solitary or in pairs; corolla blue, often 

 Nvantini^; cajtsnle cylindrical, smaller above. March-rFnly. In waste 

 places. 



