CAMPANULA FAMILY. 261 



LXIII. CAMPANULACEiE, CAMPANULA FAMILY. 



Herbs with milky juice, alternate leaves, and scattered 

 flowers, with regular o-lobed (blue or white) corolla and 5 

 stamens borne on the suuimit of the calyx tube which is adhe- 

 rent to the 2-5-celleil. many-seeded ovary and pod ; style 1 ; 

 stigmas as many as the cells of the ovary. Stamens separate 

 in all our plants of the order, which by this and by the regular 

 corolla (valvate in the bud) are -distinguished from the 

 preceding. 



1. SPECtTLAEIA. Corolla nearly wheel-shaped. Stigmas 3. Pod linear or narrrnv oblong-, 



0|)eiiing by a lateral valve or short cleft into each cell. Otherwise as in the next. 



2. CAMP.\NUL.V. Corolla bell-shaped, or of various shapes. Stigrnas and cells of the 



slicirt pod d-b, each cell of the latter opening by a lateral valve or short cleft. 



1. SPECULARIA, VENUS'S LOOKING-GLASS. (Old Latin name 

 of Euroiieau species is Speculum Veneris.) ® 



S. Speculum, DC. Garden V. Cult, from Eu. for ornament, is a low 

 lierb, with oblong leaves, pretty blue flowers terminating the spreading 

 branches, and linear triangular pod. 



S. perfoliata, DC. Weedy plant in sterile or sandy ground, with 

 simple stems ."V-JO' high, furnished throughout with round-heart-shaped 

 clasping leaves, and small flowers in their axils, only the later ones ex- 

 panding a small blue corolla ; pod oblong. 



2. CAMPANULA, BELLFLOWER or HAREBELL. (Diminutive 

 of Italian or late Latin name for hell.) Flowers summer. (Lessons, 

 Fig. 254.) 



* Stii/mns and cells of the i)od 5; cahjx ivith reflexed leafy apjiendages. 



C. Medium, Linn. Canticrbury Bki.ls. Erect, branching, hairy, with 

 coarse toothed leaves, and oblong bdll-shaped flowers 2 '-3' long, often 

 double. Cult. Eu. (J) (2) 



* * Stiymas and cells 3. 

 -:- Sleiii /r'(/?v.s' 1(11 linear or lanre-Jiuiar. 



C. aparinoides, Pursh. Delicate weak stems 8'-_*()' high, and rough 

 backward on the angles, bearing small lance-linear leaves and a few small 

 whitish flowers on diverging peduncles, the bell-shaped corolla 3"-4" 

 long. Grassy wet places. Jl 



C. rotundif6lia, Linn. Common H.\Ri;BEi.t.. Tufted spreading slender 

 stems -V-VI' liigli ; round or heart-shaped root leaves, dying early, but 

 narrow mostly linear stem leaves (the specific name therefore tmfortu- 

 nate) ; flowers few, slender-ped uncled, the blue bcU-sliaped corolla 0"-8" 

 long, handsome. Rocks N. 21. 



•t- 1- Stem leaves lance-ovate or broader; flowers normally blue. 



*+ Flowers paiiiculate or scattered, lony-pedunrled. 



C. Carp&Uca. Jacq. Smooth, tufted, fl'-KV high, with roundish or 

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

 shaped corolla about 1' long. 



