2^10 HEATH FAMILY. 



S. perfolikta, a wild weedy plant in sterile or sandy ground, with simple 

 stems 3' - 21/ high, furnished throughout with round-heart-shaped clasping 

 leaves, and small Howers in their axils, only the later ones expanding a small 

 blue corolla ; pod oblong. 



2. CAMPANULA, BELLFLOWER or HAREBELL. (Diminutive of 

 Italian or late Latin name for bell.) El. summer. (Lessons, p. 102, fig. 207.) 



* Wild species of the countrt/, all with 3 stigmas and 3-celled pod. 



C. Americana, Tall Wild B. Rich moist ground especially W., with 

 stem 3° - 6° high, thin lance-ovate taper-pointed serrate leaves, and long loose 

 spike of flowers, the almost wheel-shaped light-blue corolla 1' broad, and long 

 curved style, (j) @ 



C. aparinoides. Small Marsh B. Grassy wet places, with delicate 

 weak stem 8' - 20' liigh, and rough backward on the angles, bearing small lance- 

 Knear leaves and a few small flowers on diverging peduncles, the bell-shaped 

 corolla 3" -4" long. 2/ 



C. rotundifolia, Commox Harebell. On precipices and rocky banks 

 N., with tufted spreading slender stems 5' -12' high, round or heart-shaped 

 root-leaves, dying early, but narrow mostly linear stem-leaves ( the specific name 

 therefore unfortunate), and a few slcnder-peduncled flowers, the blue bell-shaped 

 corolla 6' -8" long. y. 



* * European species of the gardens : flowers mostly blue, with white varieties. 

 -1- Stigmas and cells of the pod 3 : no appendages to calyx. ^ 



C. Carp&.thica. Smooth, tufted, 6'- 10' high, with roundish or ovate 

 petioled small leaves, slender 1 -flowered peduncles, and open bell-shaped corolla 

 about 1' long. 



C. rapunculoides. Weedy, spreading inveterately by the root, rather 

 hairy, the erect leafy stems l°-2° high, with lowest leaves heart-shaped and 

 petioled, upper lance-ovate and sessile, nodding flowei's in the axil of bracts 

 forming a leafy raceme, and tubular-bell-shaped corolla 1' long. 



C. Trachelium. Roughish-hairy, 2° -3° high, with more coarsely toothed 

 and broader leaves than the last, and rather larger bell-shaped corolla. 



C. persicsefolia. Smooth, with upright stems I°-2^o high, and bearing 

 email lance-linear leaves, root-leaves broader, all beset with minute close teeth ; 

 the flowers nearly sessile and erect, rather few in a sort of raceme, the open bell- 

 Bhaped corolla 1^' - 2' long, sometimes double. 



-t- -1- Stigmas and cells of the pod 5 : calyx with reflexed leafy appendages. {T) (5) 



C. Medium, Canterbury Bells. Erect, branching, hairy, with coarse 

 toothed leaves, and oblong-bell-shaped flowers 2' - 3' long, often double. 



3. PLATYCODON. (A Greek-made name, means ft)-oae?6e///7ower.) ^ 

 P. grandiflbrum. Cult, from Siberia ; very smooth, pale or glaucous, 



rather low and spreading, with lance-ovate coarsely toothed leaves, terminal 

 peduncle bearing a showy flower, the broadly expanded 5-lobed corolla fully 

 2' broad, blue or white, sometimes double, in summer. 



64. ERICACE^, HEATH FAMILY. 



Very large family, chiefly of shrubs, difficult to define as a whole ; 

 the leaves are simple and mostly alternate ; the flowers almost all 

 regular, and witli as many or twice as many stamens as there are 

 petals or lobes of the corolla ; their anthers 2-celled, each cell more 

 commonly opening by a pore or hole at the end ; ovary mostly 

 with as many cells as there are lobes to the corolla ; style only one, 

 and seeds small. 



Epacris is a genus and the type of a family or sub-order of 

 Ileath-like shrubs, of Austraha, some of them cult, in conservatories. 



