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Campanu lacece Campanula. 



Crepis rubra, syn. Boerkhaiisia ru j jra, is a South European 

 annual with tufted radical leaves arod rosy or white flower-heads. 



Hieracium aurantmcum is one of the very few Hawkweeds 

 deserving of a place in the garden. It is a creeping herbaceous 

 plant with erect one-headed peduncles of orange-yellow flowers. 



ORDER LXIL CAMPANULACE^S. 



(Including Lobeliacece). 



Herbs, rarely frutescent ; juice milky. Leaves alternate, exsti- 

 pulate. Calyx-liinb 5-cleft. Corolla epigynous, regular or irre- 

 gular. Stamens 5, epigynous or epi- 

 petalous ; anthers free or combined. 

 Ovary 2- or more celled, inferior or 

 half superior ; stigma surrounded by 

 hairs or naked. Fruit a berry or 

 capsule, dehiscing in pores or valves 

 above or below the calyx -limb, 

 many-seeded. Seeds minute, often 

 pitted, albuminous. There are up- 

 wards of 50 genera and 800 species 

 included in this order. The Cam- 

 panulacece proper are mostly found 

 in temperate countries of the North, 

 and the Lobdiacece in tropical or 

 sub-tropical regions. 



1. CAMPANULA. 

 Perennial or more rarely annual 

 or biennial herbs with blue or lilac 

 or white flowers having a regularly 

 lobed corolla and free anthers. This 

 genus contains about 200 species. 

 The name is from the Latin, and 

 signifies a little bell, here applied 

 in reference to the shape of the 

 flowers. There are several native 

 Fig. 152. campanula pyramidaiis. species, including one little gem 



seldom seen in cultivation, namely, 



C. hederacea, a small creeping species found in boggy places. 

 1. C. pyramidaiis (fig. 152). A very pretty though rather 



