CAMPANULACEiE. (BELL-FLOWER FAMILY). 503 



I I Annuals. Floicers more or less peduncled. 

 IT Calyx spurred. 

 9 C. stellaris, 10 strigosa, 11 Hierosolymitana, 12 sulphurea, 13 

 camptoclada. 



IT IF Calyx not spurred. 



14 C. Erinus. 



* * Capsule opening hy valves or pores near apex or middle. 

 t Biennials. 



15 C. peregriua, 16 Rapunculus, 



1 1 Annuals. 



17 C. Phrygia, 18 Kotschyana, 19 ramosissima, 20 retrorsa, 

 21 Sidoniensis. 



1. C. £ptiesia, Boiss. (D .3 to .6, appressed-woolly, canescent. 

 Root-leaves .15 to .25 long, petioled, lyrate, lobes oblong to ovate, 

 obtusely crenate-dentate, decurrent and confluent ; stem-leaves sessile, 

 oblong, acutely dentate. Flowers large, short-peduncled, 1-3 in a 

 cluster ; calyx-lobes lanceolate-acuminate, spurs as long as tube ; 

 corolla bell-shaped, once and a half as long as calyx — Spring — Ruins 

 of Gerash (Tristram). 



2. C. dulci§, Decaisn. If .1 to .15, tufted, tomentellous, grey; 

 stems brittle, leafy, 1-3 flowered. Leaves .01 to .015 long, sessile, 

 ovate, obscurely sinuate-dentate, the upper clasping. Peduncles from 

 upper axils, filiform ; flowers .01 long ; calyx-lobes narrowly lanceo- 

 late, a[)pendages ovate, acute, longer than tube ; corolla white, hard- 

 ly one-fourth longer than calyx — May and June — Rocky slopes 

 Sinai ; 'Ain Ata (Tristram). 



3. C euclasta, Boiss. If .05 to .15, velvety-canesceut, stems 

 rather stout, brittle. Leaves .003 to .01 long, more or less denticulate, 

 lower obovate, obtuse, petioled, upper obloug, sessile, somewhat clasp- 

 ing. Flowers .01 to .02 long, nearly sessile, 3-4 clustered at apex or 

 solitary; calyx-lobes twice as long as tube — May to July — Fissures 

 of rocks ; Ras Ba'albek to Damascus and el-Jebel-el-Abiad, between 

 Hama and Palmyra. 



4. C. Damascena, Labill. % .08 to .2, short-hispid ; stems 

 slender but rigid, brittle. Leaves denticulate, elliptical-oblong to lentic- 

 ular, the radical .02 long, petioled, the upper much smaller, nearly 

 sessile. Flowers .01 long, more or less long-pedicelled ; calyx-lobes 

 once and a half as long as tube — June and July — 'Aqurah, in the 

 grotto known as the Church of Peter and Paul ; Hermon and Antile- 

 banon ; Breitan (Buqa'). Too near the last, 



5. C. tricliopoda, Boiss. If .1 to .15, tomentellous-canes- 

 cent ; ^iQm?>Jiliform. Leayes eiitire, the radical often .02 long, roset- 

 ted, obloug-spathulate, petioled, the upper round-ovate to lenticular, 

 minute, short-petioled. Peduncles capillary, sometimes .02 long, often 

 with 1-2 bracts ; flowers .004 long ; calyx-lobes lanceolate, longer 

 than tube — May to August — Fissures of rocks ; subalpine and alpine 

 Lebanon. Perhaps an alpine variety of the last two. 



