196 ORDER 72. CAMFANULACEJ5 



ORDER LXXII. CAMPANULACE^. BELI.WORTS. 



Verb* with a milky juice, alternate leaves, and without stipules. Flower* 

 mostly blue, showy. Calyx superior, generally 5-cleft, persistent. Corolla 

 regular, campanulate, generally 5-cleft, withering, valvate in aestivation 

 Stamens 5, free from the corolla. Anthers distinct, 2-celled. Pollen spheri- 

 cal. Chary adherent to the calyx, 2 or more celled. Capsule crowned 

 with the remains of the calyx, loculicidal. Seeds many. Figs. 62, 63. 



S Onlyx tube short. Pod roundish, opening at the sides. Cor. bell or wheel form OAJIPAKCL'.. I 



Calyx tube elongated. Pod prismatic, opening at the sides. Corolla whee form SPKCUI.AKIA. 2 



S Calyx tube short. J'od ovoid, opening at the top. Corolla bowl-form I*LATTCODOX 3 



1. CAMPANULA, Tourn. Calyx mostly 5-cleft. Cor. campanulate, 

 or suhrotatc, 5-lobed, closed at base by the broad, valve-like bases of the 

 5 stamens. Stig. 3 5-cleft. Caps, y-5-celled, opening by lateral pores. 

 Mostly 1. Flowers in racemes or spikes, or few and axillary. 



Native or naturalized. a Flowers' rotate, deeply 5-lobed No. 1 



a Flower? campanulate, few, or scattered Nos. 2 4 



a Flowers funnel-form, crowded above No. 5 



5 Exotic. b Sepals appendaged at base. Stig. 3 or 5. Corolla bell-shaped. .Nos. t>, 7 



6 Sepals not appendaged. Stig. 3. c Corolla bowl-shaped Nos. 8, 9 



c Corolla bell-shaped Nos. 10. 11 



c Cor. rotate-spreading Nos. 12, 13 



1 C. Americana L. Tall, erect; Ivs. ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, uncinately serrate, 



contracted to a winged petiole, veins often ciliate; fls. axillary, sessile ; style exsert- 

 ed, decurved. it Dry copses : common. 2 If. Fls. 1' broad, spreading, flat. Aug. t 



2 C. rotandlfolla L. Hare-bell. St. weak, slender; radical Ivs. ovate or reniform- 



cordate, canline linear, entire; flowers few, nodding, bell-shaped and blue. ii Damp 

 rocks. N. States. If. Very delicate. June, July. Rt. Ivs. seldom found with the Us. 



3 C. aparlnoides Ph. Stem weak, slender, branching above, triangular, the angles 



inversely aculeate ; Ivs. lance-linear, subentire ; fls. terminal. 4" long, white. In wet 

 meadows. 1 IJf, leaning on the grass like a Galinm. June Aug. 



4 C. dl varlcata MX. Glabrous, erect, with slender, divaricate, paniculate branches ; 



Ivs. narrow -lanceolate, pointed at each end, sharply dentate ; fls. campannlate, pendu- 

 lous on the slender branchlets. Rocky woods. Va., W. and S. 2f. July. 



5 C. gloinerata L. St. angular, simple, smooth ; Ivs. lance-oblong, cordate, the lower 



petiolate ; fls. crowded above, cor. funnel-form, violet-blue. Fields. Mass. 2f. t Eu. 

 ft. AOGREGATA. Flowers pale bine, in a dense head, and other var. are cultivated. 



6 C. MEDIUM. Canttrbvry-beUx. Erect, hispid; Ivs. lanceolate: fls. 1J'; stig.5. (f)Eu. 3f. 



7 C. SPECIOSA. Erect; Ivs. lance-linear: fis. racemed, nodding ; sti-r. 3. is. Eur. 2f. 



8 C. PYRAMIDALIS. Smooth, branched : Ivs. lance-ovate ; fls. broad, racemed. if En. 6f. 

 8 C. PERSICIFOLIA. Smooth; Ivs. lance-linear, thick ; fls. broad, axillary. TJ Eur. :^f. 

 1O C. TBACHELIUM. St. angular, hairy : Ivs. ovate, cord, dentate : ped.l-3-flwd. 21 Eu. 4f. 

 11C. RAPUNCULOIDES. Rough : Ivs. ovate, pointed ; rac. spicate ; fls. nodding, ii Eu. 2f. 

 1 ~i C. LOREYI. St. erect, ang. ; Ivs. ohov. to lance-ovate : cal. hairy : cor. 2' broad, (i) En. 

 13 C. GARGANICA. St. diffuse ; Ivs. cord. -reniform to ovate ; fls. small, star-shaped. 2j En. 



2. SPEOULARIA, Heist. Calyx 5-lobed, tube elongated. Cor. rotate 

 5-lobed. Fil. hairy, shorter than the anthers. Sty. included, hairy. Stiir 

 3. Caps, prismatic, 3-celled, opening laterally in the upper part. (T) FK 

 axillary and terminal, sessile, erect. 



