DICOTYLEDONOUS PLANTS 223 



99. CAMPANULACEJE. CAMPANULA FAMILY. 



Herbs, with, milky juice. Leaves alternate, without stipules. 

 Flowers regular, not clustered. Calyx 5-lobed, adnate to the 

 ovary. Corolla regular, bell-shaped, 5-lobed. Stamens 5, 

 usually free from the corolla and not coherent. -Style 1, 

 usually hairy above ; stigmas 2 or more. Fruit a capsule, 

 2 or more celled, many -seeded. 



I. CAMPANULA, Tourn. 



Annual, biennial, or perennial herbs. Flowers solitary, 

 racemed or spiked, regular, blue or white. Calyx 5-lobed 

 or parted. Corolla wheel-shaped to bell-shaped, 5-lobed. 

 Stamens 5, free from the corolla, distinct, filaments dilated 

 at the base. Ovary 3-5-celled, many-ovuled ; style 3-parted. 

 Capsule short, bearing the persistent calyx-lobes at its apex, 

 many -seeded, splitting open on the sides.* 



1. C. rotundifolia, L. HAREBELL. A slender, smooth, branching 

 perennial, 5-12 in. high. Root-leaves broadly ovate-heart-shaped, 

 generally somewhat crenate, soon withering. Stem-leaves varying 

 from linear to narrowly lanceolate, entire. Pedicels slender, flowers 

 solitary or somewhat racemed, the buds erect but the fully opened 

 flower drooping. Calyx-teeth erect, awl-shaped. Corolla bell-shaped, 

 -1 in. long, its lobes short and recurved. Rocky hillsides, espe- 

 cially N. 



2. C. aparinoides, Pursh. MARSH BELL-FLOWER. Stem angular, 

 unbranched, slender, weak and leaning on the grass among which it 

 usually grows, the angles clothed with minute, backward-pointing 

 prickles. Leaves lance-linear, nearly entire. Flowers terminal, 

 about in. long, white. Corolla bell-shaped. Wet meadows, in tall 

 grass. 



II. SPECULARIA, Heister. 



Annual; stems slender, angled. Leaves entire or toothed. 

 Flowers axillary, regular, solitary or in small clusters, sessile, 

 bracted. Calyx-tube slender, 3-5-parted. Corolla wheel- 

 shaped, 5-lobed. Stamens with the filaments flattened and 

 shorter than the anthers. Ovary 3-celled, many-ovuled ; 

 stigmas 3. Fruit a prismatic, 3-celled, many-seeded capsule.* 



