6ELLFLOWER FAMILY. Campanulaceae. 



BELLFLOWER FAMILY. Campanulaceae. 



A large family, widely distributed. Ours are small 

 herbs, with bitter milky juice; leaves alternate, without 

 stipules; flowers perfect, usually with five sepals; corolla 

 with five united lobes; stamens five; ovary inferior, style 

 long, sometimes hairy, with two to five stigmas, which do 

 not expand until some time after the flower opens. 



There are a great many kinds of Campanula; ours are 

 chiefly perennials, with more or less bell-shaped corollas; 

 the capsule tipped with the remains of the calyx and open- 

 ing at the sides by minute holes. The name is from the 

 Latin, meaning "little bell." 



This is the well-known kind, sung by 

 Harebell, Blue t ^ poets an( ^ f oun( } across our continent 

 Bells of Scotland 



Campdnula and m Europe and Asia, reaching an 



rotundijdlia altitude of twelve thousand feet. A 



Violet charming, graceful little plant, with 



Summer slender stems, from six inches to two feet 



West, etc. r , / 1 11 



tall, springing from a cluster of dull green, 



roundish or heart-shaped leaves, which usually wither 

 away before the flowers bloom; the stem-leaves long and 

 narrow. The flowers hang on threadlike pedicels, usually 

 in a loose cluster, and are less than an inch long, violet 

 or blue and paler at the base, with a long white pistil and 

 pale yellow or lilac anthers. Neither the plants nor the 

 flowers are nearly so fragile as they look, for the stems are 

 wiry and the flowers are slightly papery in texture. This 

 plant is variable and may include more than one kind. It 

 seems hardly necessary to remark that it is not to be 

 confused with Calochortus albus, which is unfortunately 

 sometimes called Hairbell and is entirely different, but I 

 have several times been asked whether they were the same. 



A pretty little plant, with smooth, 

 Bellflower , ., r -u^ -u 



Campanula slender stems, from six to eight inches 



Scouleri tall, and smooth, toothed leaves. The 



White, lilac flowers are in a loose cluster and are more 



Summer the gh Q Hule LiHes than cf Blue 



Northwest, Cal. . . . 



Bells, white tinged with lilac, or pale blue, 



with yellow anthers and a long pistil with three pink 

 stigmas. The California Harebell, C. prenanthoides, has 

 blue flowers, similar in shape. 

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