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the nodes. Leaves thin, roughish on both sides, heart-shaped at the base, 

 with five (varying from three to seven) triangular-lanceolate, sharp-pointed 

 lobes with deep sinuses between them. Flowers greenish white, the stami- 

 nate flowers in narrow, compound racemes; the pistillate flowers solitary 

 or sometimes two together; lobes of the corolla five to six, narrow and sharp 

 pointed. Fruit a small, fleshy pod (pepo), dry when mature, armed with 

 slender spines; inner part fibrous-netted, usually two-celled with two flat 

 seeds in each cavity; ovoid in shape, i J to 2 inches long, green, and opening 

 at the apex when mature. 



In rich, moist or wet soil in thickets or woods along streams or rivers, 

 New Brunswick to Ontario, Manitoba, Montana, south to Virginia, Ken- 

 tucky, Texas and Kansas. Flowering from July to September. Frequent 

 in cultivation and perhaps largely introduced or escaped in the northeast. 



Bellflower Family 



Campanulaceae 

 Harebell; Bluebells of Scotland 



Campanula rotundifolia Linnaeus 



Plate 218 



A slender, graceful, wiry-stemmed herb, perennial by slender root- 

 stocks, usually smooth, sometimes pubescent. Stems erect or decumbent, 

 often several from the same root, 6 inches to 3 feet high. Basal leaves 

 nearly orbicular, usually heart-shaped at the base, one-fourth to i inch 

 wide, toothed or entire, on long, slender, weak petioles, usually withering 

 or dying before the flowers open, but new ones developing in late summer. 

 Stem leaves slender, linear or linear-lanceolate, i to 3 inches long. Flowers 

 usually racemose, rarely solitary, at the apex of the stem, drooping on 

 slender, hairlike stalks. Calyx with five threadlike spreading lobes. 

 Corolla bright blue or violet-blue, bell-shaped, one-half to nearly i inch 

 broad, the margin with five pointed lobes. Fruit .an ovoid capsule, ribbed 

 and opening by short clefts near the base. 



In fissures and cracks of rocks near waterfalls and in rocky woods, 



