242 BLUEBELL ORDER 



CAMPANULA Linne 1753 BLUEBELL 



(Diminutive of It. camp ana, bell) 



PL 36, fig. 1, 2, 6. 



Sepals 5, united, petals 5, usually blue or purple, rarely white, united 

 into a bell-shaped corolla, stamens 5, free from the corolla, ovary 3-5- 

 celled, stigma 3-5-lobed, capsule crowned by the long calyx-lobes, opening 

 by 3-5 small holes ; flowers solitary or clustered ; leaves alternate, entire 

 or toothed, rarely lobed; annual or perennial. 



1. Flowers nodding; corolla deeply bell-shaped, 1.5- 



3 cm. long ; fruit nodding C. rotundifolia 



2. Flowers erect, spreading or horizontal, not nod- 



ding 



a. Corolla tubular bell-shaped, 8-12 mm. long; 



flowers solitary ; at 12-14,000 ft. C. uniflora 



b. Corolla broadly open ; flowers often 2 or more ; 



at 5-12,000 ft. 



(1) Flowers about 1 cm. wide, several-many 



in an open cluster C. aparinoides 



(2) Flowers 2-3 cm. wide, 1-few in a cluster C. Pdrryi 



LAURENTIA Micheli 1729 

 (From Laurent, a French botanist) 



Sepals 5, united, petals 5, blue, united into a closed tube, 2-lipped, 

 stamens 5, united by the anthers, ovary 2-celled, fruit a capsule, opening at 

 the top ; flowers few, axillary ; leaves alternate, simple ; perennial. 

 Stems 4-5 in. high; leaves linear, 1.5-3 cm. long L. eximia 



LOBELIA Linne 1753 LOBELIA, CARDINAL FLOWER 

 (Named for de L'Obel, a Flemish botanist) 



Sepals 5, united, petals 5, red, blue or white, united into a 2-lipped 

 corolla, split to the base on one side, stamens 5, united by the anthers, 

 ovary 2-celled, capsule 2-valved from the top; flowers in long racemes; 

 leaves alternate, simple; perennial. 



1. Flowers red, 2-2.5 cm. long L. cardindlis 



2. Flowers blue, rarely white, 1-1.5 cm. long L. syphilitica 



SPECULARIA Heister 1830 VENUS' LOOKING GLASS 

 (Latin speculum, looking-glass) 



Sepals 3-5, united, petals 5, blue, united into a saucer-shaped corolla, 

 the earlier flowers without petals, stamens 5, ovary 3-celled, stigma 3-lobed, 

 capsule opening by lateral valves ; flowers axillary, the earlier small, green, 



