14 . ADDISONIA 
greenhouse or hotbed. The seeds germinate very readily, and 
if sown too thickly the seedlings are liable to damp off from crowd- 
ing. Division of the crowns is not readily effected, as the root- 
system is cumbersome, fleshy, and brittle. 
The Japanese bellflower is a perennial herb with a fleshy, strong- 
crowned root-system, from which arise glaucous, purplish, brittle 
stems forming a bushy plant up to three feet in height. h 
lower leaves, arranged in whorls of usually three, are oblanceolate 
~ nearly cordate with saw-toothed margins, and are two inches 
ong and one inch wide, green above and glaucous-blue beneath. 
The alternate upper leaves are linear, acute, and in the inflorescence 
uch smaller and bract-like. The flowers are solitary and have: 
a turbinate, smooth, glaucous calyx with five acute, triangular 
lobes; a large inflated corolla with five triangular acute spreading 
lobes; five stamens, whose filaments are slender, pale above but 
dilated at the base into a broad, eee petaloid disk; linear 
anthers; and a five-celled ovary with a round style, and green, 
five-lobed stigma. The fruit is a Byespatoed capsule, opening at 
the top, and contains many seeds. 
KENNETH R. BOYNTON. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE. Fig. 1.—Flowering stem. Fig. 2—Upper portion 
of ovary and style, X2. Fig. 3.—Capsule. 
