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CAMPANULA. LXXVIL CAMPANULACE. 365 
Maine, Miss Towle ! to Niagara! Stem 6—12/ high, commonly simple. Leaves 
mostly linear, sessile, an inch long and [—2” wide, upper ones entire, lower 
with minute teeth. Flowers remote, alternate, on axillary pedicels which are 
but little shorter tham the leaf-like bracts. Corolla pale-blue, the 3 lower seg- 
ments obovate. Aug. 
\8. L. teprostacuys. DC. Slender-spiked Lobelia. 
Glabrous; st. erect, virgate, simple; lvs. oblong-lanceolate, minutely 
denticulate, rather acute, sessile; fls. subsessile, small, in a long, slender spike; 
cal. 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—2’ 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. Nurrattu. DC. (L. gracilis. Nutt.) Nuttali’s Lobelia. 
Glabrous ; st. erect, very slender, almost filiform, subsimple; lvs. few and 
remote, subentire, radical linear-spatulate, cauline linear, rather acute; fls. 
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 CLINTONIA. 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—@® Procumbent herbs with small leaves 
and axillary, solitary flowers. . 
C. ELEGANS. Doug.—Glabrous, sparingly branched; s¢. slender, angular; lvs. 
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. + 
Orver LXXVII CAMPANULACEA.—BeEtiworrs. 
Herbs with a milky juice, alternate leaves and without stipules. 
Fils. mostly blue, showy. Cal. superior, generally 5-cleft, persistent. 
Cor. regular, campanulate, generally 5-cleft, withering, valvate in estivation. i 
d 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. Style covered with collecting hairs. 
Fr.—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 its 
300 species, according to Alphonse DeCandolle, only 19 inhabit the torrid zone. ‘The campanulacee are 
interesting chiefly for their beauty, being destitute of any important known properties. 
Genera. 
Calyx tube short. Corolla campanulate orsubrotate. . . .. . . « +  « Campanula.t 
Calyx tube long, prismatic. Corolla rotate. P . 2 3 Specularia. 2 
1. CAMPANULA. 
. Lat. campanuia, 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 stamens; stigma 
3—5-cleft ; capsule 3—5-celled, opening by lateral pores.— Mostly 4- 
Fils. generally in racemes, sometimes spicate, or few and axillary 
1. C. RoTuNDIFOLIA. Rock Bell-flower. Hair Bell. 
St. weak, slender; radical lvs. ovate- or reniform-cordate; cauline ones 
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 
