BELL FLOWER FAMILY 



(Campanulacece) 



Herbs with alternate leaves, usually with milky juice, and 

 regular 5-divided gamopetalous flowers, the corolla usually 

 withering instead of dropping; stamens 5; style hairy with a 

 stigma of 2 to 5 lobes, at first shut together. The anthers 

 expand while the flower is still in bud and discharge their 

 pollen against the hairy style. The stigma matures later 

 after the flower opens; it then expands for the reception of 

 pollen brought by insects from other flowers. 



CALIFORNIA HAREBELL (Campdnula prenanthbides, Durand). 

 Flowers blue, about % inch long, bell-shaped, divided into 5 

 slender, recurving lobes, stamens and the longer pistil much 

 exserted; scattered or clustered in terminal racemes. Leaves 

 lanceolate to ovate, sharply toothed, about 1 inch long. 



The California Harebell is a perennial with rather stiff, clus- 

 tered stems, a foot or two high, blooming in summer, in moist, 

 shady places of the redwood forests of California, and in foot- 

 hills of the Sierra Nevada. The seed vessels of this genus 

 have 3 or 4 round porthole-like valves on the side, which open 

 up for the discharge of the seeds. 

 216 



