CAMPANULACE^. (BELL-FLOWER FAMILY.) 



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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. lanceolatum, Willd. If .3 to .6, pubescent-scabrous, 

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

 below, ending in a loose spike. Leaves denticulate, the lower oMong, 

 ta'pering to a 'petiole, the upper lanceolate, sessile. Flowers .006 long, 

 1-3 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. 



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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. SpecMlifm, L, .3 to .5. Leaves sesRile, oblong, 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 tube and as corolla- 

 lobes ; corolla .01 to .013 long ; capsule 

 constricted at tip — Spring — Fields ; common 

 to subalpine regions. 



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

 sules short, sometimes oblong — Sandy places. 



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



Leaves sessile, the lower ovate, the upper ob- 

 long-lanceolate to linear. Flowers solitary, or 

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

 ascending or spreading, during flowering a 

 little more than half as long as tube, and shorter 

 than corolla-lobes ; corolla .015 to .03 long ; 

 capsule not constricted at tip — Spring — 

 Grassy places ; less common than last. 



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

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

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

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

 than corolla-lobes ; corolla .006 to .008 long ; capsule slightly, if at all, 

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



5. TRACHEt-IUM, 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, 3-3-celled, opening by lateral pores at base — Perennial 

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



Fruiting calyx of S. 

 falcata. 



