136 COMMON CANADIAN WILD PLANTS. 



5. L. Kal'mii, L. Flowers small, | of an inch long, light 

 blue. Stem low, 4-18 inches high, very slender. Pedicels 

 filiform, as long as the flowers, with 2 minute bractlets 

 above the middle. Leaves mostly linear, the radical ones 

 spathulate and the upper ones reduced to bristly bracts. 

 Wet rocks and banks, chiefly northward. 



6. L. Dortman'na, L., (WATER LOBELIA) with small 

 leaves, all tufted at the root, and a scape 5 or 6 inches long 

 with a few small light-blue pedicelled flowers at the sum- 

 mit, occurs in the shallow borders of ponds in Muskoka. 



ORDER LIT. CAMPANULA'CE^!. (CAMPANULA F.) 



Herbs with milky juice, differing from, the preceding 

 Order chiefly in having a, regular 5-lobed corolla (bell-shaped 

 or wheel-shaped), separate stamens (5), and 2 or more (with us, 

 5) stigmas. 



Synopsis of the Genera. 



l Tampan ula. Calyx 5-cleft. Corolla nearly wheel-shaped, 5-lobed. 



Pod short. 

 2. Specula' ria. Calyx 5-cleft. Corolla nearly wheel-shaped, 5-lobed. 



Pod prismatic or oblong. 



1. CAMPANULA, Tourn. BELL-FLOWER. 



1. C. rotundifo'lia, L. (HAREBELL.) Flowers blue, 

 loosely panicled, on long slender peduncles, nodding. Stem 

 slender, branching, several-flowered. Boot-leaves round- 

 heart-shaped ; stem-leaves linear. Calyx-lobes awl-shaped. 

 Shaded banks. 



2. C. aparinoi'des, Pursh. (MARSH BELL-FLOWER.) 

 Flowers white or nearly so, about ^ of an inch long. Stem 

 very slender and weak, few-flowered, angled, roughened back- 

 wards. Leaves linear-lanceolate. Calyx-lobes triangular. 

 Wet places in high grass. This plant has the habit of a 

 Galium. 



3. C. Ameriea'na, L. (TALL BELL-FLOWER.) Flowers 

 light blue, about an inch across, crowded in a leafy spike. 

 Corolla deeply 5-lobed. Style long and curved. Stem 3-6 



