fcerbaceous plants. 







flowers. The best are : The Canterbury bell (O. MaK inn). 

 sterns erect, branching, two or three feet high, with ovate- 

 lanceolate, crenate leaves : Sr 

 flowers in leafy panicles, 

 large, bell-shaped, blue- 

 purple, or white. One of 

 the best: flowers in July. 

 Clustered bell-flower. (C. 

 glomerata), stems simple. 

 one or two feet high ; leaves 

 ovate, upper ones some- 

 what stem-clasping; flowers 

 in close head-, violet-blue, 

 pale blue, or white, flower- 

 ing all summer. A desir- 

 able plant for naturalizing 

 in glades and open woods, 

 or on grassy banks. Pale 

 bell-flower (0. lactiflora), stems two or more feet high, 

 branched; leaves ovate-lanceolate, sessile : flowers in loose 

 racemes, pale blue or white. Xiee border plant, forming 

 large tufts and flowering all summer. Chimney bell-flower 

 (C. pyramidalis), stem almost simple, forming many flower- 

 ing branches at the top. about four feet high ; leaves ovate or 

 sometimes cordate, petiolate : flowers in pyramidal racemes, 

 very numerous, deep blue or white, flowering in June or 

 July. Border plant. Peach-leaved bell-flower (C! perstcce- 

 folia), stem simple, one foot high or more ; root leaves 

 like the leaves of the peach, stem leaves few. linear-lanceo- 

 late ; flowers very large, racemose, deep blue to pure white? 



FIG. 145.— PALE BELL-FLOWER ^CAMPANULA 

 LACTIFLORA). 



