BELLFLOWER FAMILY. Campanulaceae. 



BELLFLOWJER 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 



*) tte . the poets, and found across our continent 

 Bells of Scotland ,*. ' 



Campanula an< ^ in -Europe an d Asia, reaching an 



rotundijblia altitude of twelve thousand feet. A 



Violet charming, graceful little plant, with 



" mi slender stems, from six inches to two feet 



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 an( 

 pale yellow or lilac anthers. Neither the plants nor tfo 

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

 wiry and the flowers are slightly papery in texture. Thi 

 plant is variable and may include more than one kind. 

 seems hardly necessary to remark that it is not to b 

 confused with Calochortus albus, which is unfortunatel; 

 sometimes called Hairbell and is entirely different, but 

 have several times been asked whether they were the same 



A pretty little plant, with smooth, I 

 Bellflower J 



Campdnula 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 of Httle LiHes than of Blue 



Northwest, Cal. _ , .,.< 111 



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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