210 HEATH FAMILY. 



S. perfoliata, a wild weedy plant in sterile or sandy ground, with simple 

 stems 3' - 20' high, furnished throughout with round-heart-shaped clasping 

 leaves, and small flowers in their axils, only the later ones expanding a small 

 blue corolla ; pod oblong. 



2. CAMPANULA, BELLFLOWER or HAREBELL. (Diminutive of 

 Italian or late Latin name for bell.) Fl. summer. (Lessons, p. 102, tig. 207.) 



# Wild species of the country, all with 3 stigmas and 3-cellcd pod. 



C. Americana, TALL WILD B. Rich moist ground especially W., with 

 stem 3 - 6 high, thin lance-ovate taper-pointed serrate leaves, and long loose 

 spike of flowers, the almost wheel-shaped light-blue corolla 1' broad, and long 

 curved style, (I) @ 



C. aparinoides, SMALL MARSH B. Grassy wet places, with delicate 

 weak stem 8' -20' high, and rough backward on the angles, bearing small lance- 

 linear leaves and a few small flowers on diverging peduncles, the bell-shaped 

 corolla 3" - 4" long. 2/ 



C. rotundifolia, COMMON HAREBELL. On precipices and rocky banks 

 N., with tufted spreading slender stems 5' -12' high, round or heart-shaped 

 root-leaves, dying early, but narrow mostly linear stem-leaves ( the specific name 

 therefore unfortunate), and a few slender-peduncled flowers, the blue bell-shaped 

 corolla 6 ' - 8" long. ^ 



* # European species of the gardens : flowers mostly blue, with white varieties. 

 - Stif/mas and cells of the pod 3 : no appendages to calyx. ^ 



C. Carpathica. Smooth, tufted, 6'-10' high, with roundish or ovate 

 petioled small leaves, slender 1 -flowered peduncles, and open bell-shaped corolla 

 about 1' long. 



C. rapunculoides. Weedy, spreading inveterately by the root, rather 

 hairy, the erect leafy stems l-2 high, with lowest leaves heart-shaped and 

 petioled, upper lance-ovate and sessile, nodding flowers in the axil of bracts 

 forming a leafy raceme, and tubular-bell-shaped corolla 1' long. 



C. Trachelium. Rouehish-hairy, 2 - 3 high, with more coarsely toothed 

 and broader leaves than the last, and rather larger bell-shaped corolla. 



C. persiC9Bf61ia. Smooth, with upright stems l-2 high, and bearing 

 small lance-linear leaves, root-leaves broader, all beset with minute close teeth ; 

 the flowers nearly sessile and erect, rather few in a sort of raceme, .the open bell- 

 shaped corolla l'-2' long, sometimes double. 



M- H- Stigmas and cells of the pod 5 : calyx with reflexed leafy appendages. (T) 



C. Medium, CANTERBURY BELLS. Erect, branching, hairy, with coarse 

 toothed leaves, and oblong-bell-shaped flowers 2' -3' long, often double. 



3. PLATYCODON. (A Greek-made name, means broad belljlowcr.) % 

 P. grandiflbrum. Cult, from Siberia ; very smooth, pale or glaucous, 



rather low and spreading, with lance-ovate coarsely toothed leaves, terminal 

 peduncle bearing a showy flower, the broadly expanded 5-lobed corolla fully 

 2' broad, blue or white, sometimes double, in summer. 



64. ERICACEAE!, HEATH FAMILY. 



Very large family, chiefly of shrubs, difficult to define as a whole ; 

 the leaves are simple and mostly alternate ; the flowers almost all 

 regular, and with as many or twice as many stamens as there are 

 petals or lobes of the corolla ; their anthers 2-celled, each cell more 

 commonly opening by a pore or hole at the end ; ovary mostly 

 with as many cells as there are lobes to the corolla ; style only one, 

 and seeds small. 



EPACRIS is a genus and the type of a family or sub-order of 

 Heath-like shrubs, of Australia, some of them cult, in conservatorieSi 



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