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lobeliace^, (lobelia family.) 
9. Ii. palllddsa, Nutt. (Swamp Lobelia.) Smooth; stem 
angled, nearly naked ; root -leaves crowded, fiat, rather fleshy , slightly 
crenate, linear-oblong, obtuse, the few on the stem linear ; flowers in 
an elongated spiked raceme ; bracts linear , half the length of the pedi¬ 
cels, and with the calyx-lobes toothed. U — Peat-bogs, Delaware 
0 Nuttall ), and southward. — Scapes 29 long ; flowers pale blue, small. 
Order 58. € AMPANULACEiE . (Campanula Fam.) 
Herbs , with a milky juice, alternate leaves , and scattered 
flowers ; the calyx adherent to the ovary ; the regular Glob¬ 
ed corolla bell-shaped , valvate in the bud ; the 5 stamens 
free from the corolla and usually distinct . Style 1, beset 
with collecting hairs above: stigmas 2 or more. Pod 2- 
several-celled, many-seeded. Seed small, anatropous, with 
fleshy albumen. — Flowers generally blue and showy. 
1. CAMPANULA, Toum. Bell-flower. 
Calyx 5-cleft. Corolla generally bell-shaped, 5-lobed. Sta¬ 
mens 5, separate, the filaments broad and membranaceous at the 
base. Stigmas and cells of the pod mostly 3, the short pod open¬ 
ing laterally by as many valves. — Perennial herbs, with terminal 
or axillary flowers. (Name a diminutive of campana, a bell; from 
the shape of the corolla.) 
* Flowers few and panicled, or solitary , long-peduncled. 
1. C. rotundifdlia, L. (Harebell.) Slender, branching; 
root-leaves round-heart- shaped, crenate, long-petioled ; stem-leaves nu¬ 
merous, linear, narrow, entire, smooth; flowers nodding; calyx-lobes 
awl-shaped, not half the length of the broadly bell-shaped (bright 
blue) corolla. — Rocky banks, common northward. July - Oct. 
The root-leaves of this delicate plant wither early, when the specific 
name appears wholly inappropriate.— There is a dwarf alpine variety 
on the White Mountains. 
2. C. aparinoides, Pursh. (Slender Bell-flower.) Stem 
Simple an d slender, weak (8' -20' high), somewhat S-angled ro^ 
backwards on the angles, as are the slight y toothed edges of 
lanceolate leaves; peduncles diverging, slender, Mow™*. °f 
the calyx triangular, half the length of the bell-shaped (nearly whde) 
corolla (C. erinoides, Muhl.) - Bogs and wet meadows, among J5 
grass, principally northward. July—Plant w.th somewhat the 
of a Galium ; the corolla barely F long. 
