GENUS i. 



BELLFLOWER FAMILY. 



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8. Campanula divaricata Michx. Pani- 

 cled Bellflower. Fig. 4022. 



Campanula divaricata Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. i: 109. 



1803. 

 Campanula flexuosa Michx. loc. cit. 1803? 



Perennial, glabrous but sometimes viscid; 

 stem erect, paniculately branched, slender, 

 i-3 high. Leaves lanceolate, ovate or oblong- 

 lanceolate, the uppermost sometimes linear, 

 sharply serrate, acuminate at the apex, nar- 

 rowed to the base, the upper sessile, the lower 

 petioled, 2'-$' long, 3"-i2" wide, or the lowest 

 commonly shorter and broader; flowers very 

 numerous in compound panicles, drooping, 

 slender-pedicelled ; corolla light blue, cam- 

 panulate, about 3" long.; calyx-lobes lanceo- 

 late, acute, scarcely spreading, often dentate ; 

 style long-exserted ; capsule turbinate, about 

 2i" long, opening near the middle. 



On rocky banks, mountains of Virginia and 

 West Virginia to Kentucky, Georgia and Tennes- 

 see. Ascends to 2500 ft. in North Carolina. June- 

 Sept. 



9. Campanula americana L. Tall 

 Bellflower. Fig. 4023. 



Campanula americana L. Sp. PI. 164. 1753. 



Annual or biennial, more or less pubes- 

 cent; stem erect or nearly so, rather slen- 

 der, simple or rarely with a few long 

 branches, 2-6 high. Leaves thin, ovate, 

 oblong, or lanceolate, serrate, acuminate 

 at the apex, narrowed at the base, petioled. 

 or the upper sessile, 3'-6' long, the lowest 

 sometimes cordate ; flowers in a loose or 

 dense terminal sometimes leafy spike, which 

 is often i -2 long; lower bracts foliaceous, 

 the upper subulate; corolla rotate, blue, or 

 nearly white, about i' broad, deeply 5-cleft; 

 calyx-lobes linear-subulate, spreading, style 

 declined and curved upward, long-exserted ; 

 capsule narrowly turbinate, ribbed, erect, 

 4"-S" long, opening near the summit. 



In moist thickets and woods, New Bruns- 

 wick to Ontario and South Dakota, south to 

 Florida, Kentucky, Kansas and Arkansas. 

 Rare near the coast in the Middle States and 

 New England. Ascends to 3000 ft. in West 

 Virginia. July-Sept. 



2. SPECULARIA Heist. ; Fabr. Enum. PI. Hort. Helmst. 225. 1763. 

 [LEGOUZIA Durand, Fl. Bourg. 2 : 26. 1782.] 



Annual herbs, with alternate toothed or entire leaves, the stem and branches long, slen- 

 der. Flowers axillary, sessile or nearly so, 2-bracted, or the upper panicled in some exotic 

 species, the earlier (lower) ones small, cleistogamous, the later with a blue or purple nearly 

 rotate corolla. Calyx-tube narrow, the lobes in the earlier flowers 3 or 4, in the later 4 or 5. 

 Corolla S-lobed or 5-parted, the lobes imbricated in the bud. Filaments flat ; anthers sepa- 

 rate, linear. Ovary 3-celled (rarely 2- or 4-celled) ; ovules numerous; stigma usually 3-lobed. 

 Capsule prismatic, cylindric, or narrowly obconic, opening by lateral valves. Seeds ovoid, 

 oblong, or lenticular. [From Speculum Veneris, the Latin name of the type species.] 



About 10 species, natives of the northern hemisphere, one extending into South America. 

 Type species: Campanula Speculum L. ; S. Speculum (L.) DC., of Europe, which is adventive in 

 Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. 



Capsule narrowly oblong. 



Leaves sessile; capsule-valves near the top. i. 5". biflora. 



Leaves cordate-clasping ; capsule-valves at about the middle. 2. S. perfoliata. 



Capsule linear-cylindric ; leaves sessile ; western. 3. 5". leptocarpa. 



