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BELLFLOWER FAMILY. 



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6. Campanula divaricata Michx. Panicled Bellflower 



Campanula divaricata Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 



log. 1803. 

 Campanula fle.vjiosa Michx. loc. cit. 1803 ? 



Perennial, glabrous but somewhat viscid; 

 stem erect, paniculately branched, slender, 

 i-3 high. Leaves lanceolate, ovate Qr 

 oblong-lanceolate, the uppermost sometimes 

 linear, sharply serrate, acuminate at the 

 apex, narrowed to the base, the upper ses- 

 sile, the lower petioled, 2 / ~3 / long, 3 // -i2 // 

 wide, or the lowest commonly shorter and 

 broader; flowers very numerous in com- 

 pound panicles, drooping, slender-pedi- 

 celled; corolla light blue, campanulate, 

 about 3 /x long; calyx-lobes lanceolate, acute, 

 scarcely spreading, often dentate ; style long- 

 exserted; capsule turbinate, about i x /z" 

 long, opening near the middle. 



On rocky banks, mountains of Virginia and 

 West Virginia to Georgia and Tennessee. As- 

 cends to 2500 ft. in North Carolina. June-Sept. 



7. Campanula Americana L,. 

 Tall Bellflower. (Fig. 3496.) 



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, peti- 

 oled, 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 

 1/ broad, deeply 5-cleft; calyx-lobes lin- 

 ear-subulate, spreading, style declined 

 and curved upward, long-exserted; cap- 

 sule narrowly turbinate, ribbed, erect, 

 4 // -5 // long, opening near the summit. 



In moist thickets and woods, New Bruns- 

 wick to Ontario and Minnesota, south to Flor- 

 ida, Kentucky and Arkansas. Rare near the 

 coast in the Middle States and New England. 

 Ascends to 3000 ft. in West Virginia. uly- 

 Sept. 



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

 [Specularia Heist.; A. DC. Mon. Camp. 344. 1830.] 



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 5-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.? [Name unexplained.] 



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

 Capsule narrowly oblong. 



Leaved sessile ; capsule-valves near the top. 1. L. biflora. 



Leaves cordate-clasping; capsule-valves at about the middle. 2. L. perfoliala. 



Capsule linear-cylindric; leaves sessile; western. 3. L. leptocarpa. 



