CAMPANULACE^. (bELL-FLOWER FAMILY.) 



50-; 



Fig. 237. 



Alpine and subalpine Lebanon to Amanus, and northward. A favorite 

 plant with the goats, which seldom allow a specimen to arrive at 

 maturity, 



* * Perennials. 



2. P. lanccolatum, Willd. 11 .3 to .6, pubescent-scabrous, 

 pale green ; stems slender^ erect or ascending, simple or branched 

 below, ending in a loose spike. Leaves denticulate, the low^er oblong, 

 tapering to a ijetiole^ the upper lanceolate, sessile. Flowers .006 long, 

 l-o in sessile or short-peduncled clusters in axils of minute, lanceolate 

 bracts — Summer — Subalpine Lebanon. 



Var. alpinum, Boiss. .1 to .3, greyish. Spikes few-flowered. 

 Bracts linear-lanceolate — Subalpine and alpine Lebanon and Hermon. 



4. SPECUtrARiA, Heist. Venus' Looking Glass. 



Calyx 5-parted into linear or awl-shaped lobes. Corolla rotate, 5- 

 lobed. Style hairy. Capsule linear or oblong, prismatic ; valves 

 narrow, opening laterally beneath the apex — Annuals, with stems 

 simple or branching from neck, and violet flowers. 



1. S. Speciiliim, L. .2 to .5. Leaves sessile, oblorg, the 

 lowermost tapering at base, the uppermost 

 half-clasping or heart-shaped at base. Flowers 

 solitary, or 3-5 together in terminal corymbs ; 

 calyx-lobes linear-subulate, during flowering 

 nearly or quite as long as tiibe and as corolla- 

 lobes ; corolla .01 to .012 long ; capsule 

 comtrlcted at tip — Spring — Fields ; common 

 to subalpine regions. 



Var-. Libasiensis, A. DC. Low. Cap- 

 sules short, sometimes oblong — Sandy places. 



2. S. pentagoiiia, L. .3 to .5. 



Jjcaves sessile, the lower ovate, the upper oh- 

 long -lanceolate to linear. Flowers solitary, or 

 3-5 in terminal corymbs ; calyx-lobes linear, 

 ascending or spreading, during flowering a 

 little more tlian half as long as tube, and shorter 

 thau corolla-lobes ; corolla .015 to .02 long ; 

 capsule not constricted at tip — Spring — 

 Grassy places ; less common than last. 



^ 3, S. falcata, Ten. © .2 to .4. Lower leaves obovate, somewhat 

 petioled, upper ovate to ovate-oblong and lanceolate, somewhat clasping. 

 Flowers solitary or ticin in axils, the lower remote, the upper approxi- 

 mated ; calyx-lobes rejiexed-curved, a little shorter than tube, and longer 

 than corolla-lobes ; corolla .000 to .008 long ; capsule slightl}', if at all, 

 constricted at tip — Spring — Coast and middle mountain regions. 



5. TRACMELIUHI, L. Tkachelium. 



Calyx 5-fid. Corolla tubular, short-lobed or parted to middle. 

 Stamens 5, free. Style glabrous, (in ours) twice as long as corolla. 

 Capsule ovoid, 2-3-celled, opening by Ifiteral pores at base — Perennial 

 herbs with shrubby base, and small, white or blue, corymbed flowers. 



Fruiting calyx of S. 

 falcata. 



