136 COMMON CANADIAN WILD PLANTS. 



5. L. Kal'mil, L. Flowers small, J of an inch long, light 

 Hue. Stem low, 4-18 inclies higt, very slender. Pedicels 

 filiform, as long as the flowers, with 2 minute bractlets 

 above the middle. Leaves mostly linear, the radical ones 

 spathulate and the upper ones reduced to bristly bracts. — 

 "Wet rocks and banks, chiefly northward. 



6. L. Dortman'na, L., CWater Lobelia) with small 

 leaves, all tufted at the root, and a scape 5 or 6 inches long 

 with a few small light-blue pedicelled flowers at the sum- 

 mit, occurs in the shallow borders of ponds in Muskoka. 



Ordbb Ln. CAMPANULA'CEiE. (Campanula F.) 



Herbs with milky juice, differing from the preceding 

 Order chiefly in having a regular 5-lobed corolla {bell-shaped 

 or wheel-shaped), separate stamens (5), and 2 or more {with us, 

 S) stigmas. 



Synopsis of tbe Genera. 



1. Campau'ala- Calyx 5-cleft. Corolla nearly wheel-shaped, 5-lobed. 



Pod short. 



2. Speciila'rla. Calyx 5-cleft. Corolla nearly wheel-shaped, S-lobed. 



Pod prismatic or oblong. 



1. CAMPAJf'raA, Tourn. Bell-flowee. 



1. C. rotundlfo'lia, L. (Harebell.) Flowers blue, 

 loosely pauicled, on long slender peduncles, nodding. Stem 

 slender, branching, several-flowered. Eoot-leaves round- 

 heart-shaped ; stem-leaves linear. Calyx-lobes awl-shaped. 

 — Shaded banks. 



2. C. aparinoi'des, Pursh. (Marsh Bell-flowbr.) 

 Flowers white or nearly so, about J of an inch long. Stem 

 very slender and weak, few-flowered, angled, roughened back- 

 wards. Leaves linear-lanceolate. CalsTK-lobes triangular'. 

 —"Wet places in high grass. This plant has the habit of » 

 Galium. 



8. C. Ameriea'na, L. (Tall Bbll-ixowee.) Flowers, 

 light blue, about an inch across, crorvdxd in a leafy spike: 

 CoroUa deeply 6-lob9(l, Style long and curved^ Stem ft-^ 



