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13. L. Dortmanna, L. (WATER LOBE LI A.) Very smooth; scape thick- 

 ish (5'- 12' high), few-flowered ; leaves all tufted at the root, linear, terete, hollow, 

 with a partition lengthwise, sessile ; lower lip of the corolla slightly hairy ; 

 calyx-tube about as long as the lobes, in fruit much longer. In the gravelly 

 borders of ponds, N. Penn. to New England, and northward. Corolla 6" - 8" 

 long. (Eu.) 



ORDER 55. CAfllPANUlACE.^. (CAMPANULA FAMILY.) 



Herbs, with milky juice, alternate leaves, and scattered flowers ; the calyx 

 adherent to the ovary ; the regular 5-lobed corolla bell-shaped, valvate in the 

 bud ; the 5 stamens free from the corolla and usually distinct. Style 1, be- 

 set with collecting hairs above : stigmas 2 or more. Pod 2 - several-celled, 

 many-seeded. Seed small, anatropous, with a straight embryo in fleshy 

 albumen. Flowers generally blue and showy. Sparingly represented 

 in America, and in the Northern States by only two genera. 



1. CAMPANULA, Tourn. BELLFLOWER. 



Calyx 5-cleft. Corolla generally bell-shaped, 5-lobed. Stamens 5, separate ; 

 the filaments broad and membranaceous at the base. Stigmas and cells of the 

 pod 3 in our species, the short pod opening on the sides by as many valves or 

 holes. Herbs, with terminal or axillary flowers ; in summer. (A diminutive 

 of the Italian campana, a bell, from the shape of the corolla.) 



* Indigenous species, perennials, except No. 2 and No. 4. 

 *- Flowers loosely panicled (or rarely solitary), long-peduncled : pods nodding. 



1. C. rotundif61ia, L. (HAREBELL.) Slender, branching (5' -12' high), 

 1 - 10-flowered ; root-leaves round-heart-shaped or ovate, mostly toothed or crenate, 

 long-petioled, early withering away ; stem-leaves numerous, linear or narrowly 

 lanceolate, entire, smooth ; calyx-lobes awl-shaped, varying from J to f the length 

 of the bright-blue corolla (which is 6" -9" long). Rocky shaded banks : com- 

 mon northward, and along the mountains. A delicate and pretty, but variable 

 species, with a most inappropriate name, since the round root-leaves are rarely 

 obvious. (Eu.) 



Var. Iinif61ia. Stems more upright and rather rigid ; the lowest leaves 

 varying from heart-shaped to ovate-lanceolate ; corolla f '- 1' long. (C. linifo- 

 lia, Lam.) Shores of the Great Lakes, and northwestward. (Eu.) 



2. C. aparinoides, Pursh. (MARSH BELLFLOWER.) Stem simple and 

 slender, weak (8' -20' high), few-flowered, somewhat 3-angled, rough backwards 

 on the angles, as are the slightly toothed edges and midrib of the linear-lanceolate 

 leaves ; peduncles diverging, slender ; lobes of the calyx triangular, half the length 

 of the bell-shaped nearly white corolla. (C. erinoides, MM.) Bogs and wet 

 meadows, among high grass. Plant with somewhat the habit of a Galium ; the 

 corolla barely 4" long. 



3. C. divaricata, Michx. Very smooth; stem loosely branched (1- 3 

 high) ; leaves oblong-lanceolate, pointed at both ends, coarsely and sliarply toothed; 



