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Marsh or Bedstraw Bellflower 



Campanula aparinoides Pursh 



Plate 2193 



A perennial herb with very slender, weak stems, reclining or diffusely 

 spreading, rough with short, retrorse bristles, leafy and paniculately 

 branched, 6 inches to 3 feet long. Leaves lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, 

 sessile, rough on the margins and midrib, pointed at both ends, one-half 

 to I \ inches long and not more than one-fourth of an inch wide. Flowers 

 white or very faintly tinged with blue, on threadlike stalks chiefly ter- 

 minating the widely divergent leafy branches; buds nodding. Calyx 

 lobes triangular, half the length of the deeply five-cleft, bell-shaped corolla 

 which is about one-third of an inch long; style not projecting beyond the 

 corolla. Fruit a small, nearly globose, erect capsule, opening at maturity 

 near the base. 



In grassy swamps and marshes, from Maine to Georgia, west to 

 Colorado and Kentucky. Flowering from June to August. In habit it 

 resembles some of the Bedstraws (Galium). 



The Blue Marsh Bellflower (Campanula uliginosa Rydberg) 

 is similar; flowers blue with darker veins, cleft into lanceolate lobes. 



Venus's Looking-glass 



Specularia perfoliata (Linnaeus) A. DeCandolle 



Plate 2ipb 



Stems weak, decumbent and branched at the base, the ends slender, 

 erect, very leafy, 6 inches to 2 feet tall, angled and hairy on the angles. 

 Leaves rounded, one-fourth to i inch broad, clasping the stem by a broad, 

 heart-shaped base, pointed or blunt, about as long as broad. Flowers 

 violet-blue or rarely white, borne solitary or two or three together, sessile 

 in the axils of the leaves; corolla wheel-shaped, those in the axils of the upper 

 leaves with five triangular-lanceolate, long-pointed, rigid calyx lobes and 

 a five-lobed, deeply cleft corolla, one-half to three-fourths of an inch broad, 

 those in the axils of the lower leaves with a shorter, three or four-lobed 



