BELLFLOWER FAMILY. Campanulacese. 



yellowish anthers are greenish white. The spiral tend- 

 rils are three-forked. Cross-fertilized mostly by bees 

 and wasps. The cucumberlike fruit is 2 inches long or 

 less, green, ovoid, and thickly covered with slender, 

 weak prickles. 15-20 feet long. Beside rivers and in 

 waste places. Me., south to Pa. and west to S. Dak., 

 Kan. , and Tex. Found in the Pemigewasset Valley at Ply- 

 mouth and Campton, N. H. The name (Greek), means 

 hedgehog and bladder ; in allusion to the armed fruit. 



Also an annual climber with branching 

 Bur-cucumber tencu 'ils and a five-lobed, far less deeply 

 Sicyos cut light green leaf ; the stem is sticky- 



angulatus hairy, angular, and coarse. The small 



Greenish white fi ve _i bed flowers are likewise staminate 

 September an( * pistillate ; the former are borne, five 

 or six, in a cluster on a long stalk, the 

 latter are almost stalkless ; both are set in the angles of 

 the leaves. The yellowish fruit, 3-10 together, is armed 

 with fine tough bristles ; a single fruit contains but one 

 seed. 15-25 feet long. In moist places and along 

 rivers, from Me., south, and west to Minn., Kan., and 

 Tex. The name is Greek, for Cucumber. 



BELLFLOWER FAMILY. Campanulacece. 



Herbs, in our range, with alternate leaves and acrid, 

 generally milky, juice ; the perfect flowers in a spike or 

 solitary. The corolla usually bell-shaped and five-lobed. 

 Stamens five, alternating with the corolla-lobes. Fruit 

 a many -seeded capsule. Cross-fertilized mostly by bees 

 and the beelike flies (Syrphidce). A tribe now included 

 in Lobeliacece by Engler and Prantl, but one which, in 

 our range, lacks those connecting links which make the 

 close relationship evident. 



An annual with a simple, wandlike stem, 

 Venus s weak and disposed to recline, and small, 



Specularia " curved, shell-shaped, light green, scallop- 

 perfoliata toothed leaves clasping the rough, angled 

 Magenta- plant-stem. The purple- violet or magenta- 



j" rPl a t P ur P le flowers, set at the hollows of the 

 leaves, have deeply five-lobed corollas 



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