THE BELLFLOWKR JA.MIIA'. ^S3 



PANICLED BELLFLOWER. 



Ca)npd)iula divari'cdta, 



FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



BellJlo7oer. hhcc. Sc.-nt/rss. Gvor^cuitoln^inia. J^m^.W^umfr,. 



Flo'verst tiny; nodding from thread-like pedicels in spreading ami compound 

 panicles. Calyx: with five hnear teeth. Corolla: canipanulalc, fivc-Lu.! 

 Stamens: five; included. Pistil : ow^\ the style protruding; stigma,' three 

 Leaves: the upper sessile; linear to lanceolate sharply serrate; bright grctn 

 brous; the lower petioled, usually broader. Stems: one to three feet high • erect • 

 wiry; smooth ; paniculately branched. ' ' 



In travelling through the high mountains of this bellflowcr's range, it 

 seemed as though wherever there was an opening in the woods or a road 

 had been cut through, the plant had found its way to the stronger light and 

 sunshine. Over the very edges of high, rocky banks it leaned, and it was 

 relatively as well anchored to the soil by its delicate fibres as was an oak by 

 its great, uncovered roots. Constantly we saw fine, fleecy sprays of its liny 

 flowers. A bumble-bee lit on one that I noticed, and the whole plant bended 

 with his weight. 



G. Ajncricd7ia, tall wild bellflower, a bold and enchanting beauty of digni- 

 fied aspect, something like a larkspur, is found through moist thickets and 

 woods and sometimes looms tall and high on the roadside's bank. By its 

 wheel-shaped, sky-blue or white corollas and long, upward-curved style, it 

 is known, and often densely, as well as loosely, the flowers grow in leafy 

 spikes from one to two feet long. The leaves jnostly are lance(ilate and 

 serrate. 



Legouzia perfoliixta, Venus' looking-glass or clasping belHlower, has an 

 individual way of bearing its cleistogamous blossoms. Usually two or three 

 of these peculiar flowers lie in the bottom of the cordate leaves that tightly 

 clasp the stem, and such blossoms appear like little buds. Although these 

 never open they are abundantly fertile. Only those that reach the lop of 

 the stem unfold and display their wheel-shaped violet, or blue, corollas. The 

 very leafy and hairy stem is mostly simple, but again is branched and 

 sometimes even prostrate. Over an extended range it seeks to grow in dry 

 woods and fields. 



SOUTHERN L0E5EIJA. 



Lobelia anuviui. 



FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Belljlozver. Bltie or white. S,.tntl.ss. Ftorida to .W'ftlt Carolin.i. J u!yO<l,*hfr, 



Fhnvers : growing profusely in a close, one-sided raceme with many small bracl*. 



Calyx : \y\\.\\ five linear lubes, the sinuses without apj>end.iges. C^'rcH.ituh: 



