BLUEBELL FAMILY 241 



1. Leaves not lobed, with a single midrib, the veins 



pinnate ; fruit bluish-black V. lentdgo 



2. Leaves mostly 3-lobed, with 3 prominent veins; 



fruit red 



a. Outer flowers of the cluster large, without sta- 



mens and pistils ; clusters 3-4 in. wide ; rare V. opulus 



b. Outer flowers not large and sterile; clusters 



less than 1 in. wide ; common V. pauciHorum 



ADOXACEAE MOSCHATEL FAMILY 



Sepals 2-3, united and grown to the ovary, petals 4-6, green, united into 

 a regular saucer-shaped corolla, stamens twice as many, in pairs on the 

 corolla tube, ovary 3-5-celled, style 3-5-parted, fruit a drupe with 3-5 nut- 

 lets ; flowers in terminal globose clusters ; low perennial herbs with basal 

 and opposite, ternate leaves. 



ADOXA Linne 1753 MOSCHATEL, MUSKROOT 

 (Gr. a, without, doxa, glory, from its small green flowers) 



PI. 35, fig. 4. 

 Characters of the family. 



Stems 2-6 in. high ; leaf-segment 3-cleft or 3-parted ; 

 flowers 3-6 in a head A.moschatellina 



CAMPANULES BLUEBELL ORDER 

 CAMPANULACEAE BLUEBELL FAMILY 



Sepals mostly 5, united and grown to the ovary, petals 5, united into a 

 regular or irregular corolla, the latter bell-shaped, saucer-shaped or 2- 

 lipped, stamens 5 on the corolla tube, ovary 2-5-celled, rarely 1 -celled, 

 stigma 2-5-lobed, fruit a capsule or berry; flowers solitary or clustered, 

 mostly terminal; annual or perennial herbs with alternate, entire, toothed 

 or lobed leaves. 



1. Corolla regular; anthers separate from each other 



a. Corolla bell-shaped; flowers all alike CAMPANULA 



b. Corolla saucer-shaped; earlier flowers small 



and green, without corolla SPECULARIA 



2. Corolla irregular; anthers united around the 



style 



a. Corolla split to the base on one side LOBELIA 



b. Corolla not split LAURENTIA 



