CAMPANULA FAMILY. 261 



LXIIL CAMPANTTLACE^, CAMPANULA FAMILY. 



Herbs with milky juice, alternate leaves, and scattered 

 flowers, with regular 5-lobed (blue or white) corolla and 5 

 stamens borne on the summit of the calyx tube which is adhe- 

 rent to the 2-5-celled, many-seeded ovary and pod ; style 1 ; 

 stigmas as many as the cells of the, ovary. Stamens separate 

 in all our plants of the order, which by this and by the regular 

 corolla (valvate in the bud) are distinguished from the 

 preceding. 



1. SPECULARIA. Corolla nearly wheel-shaped. Stigmas 8. Pod linear or narrow oblong, 



opening by a lateral valve or short cleft into each cell. Otherwise as in the next. 



2. CAMPANULA. Corolla bell-shaped, or of various shapes. Stigmas and cells of the 



short pod 8-5, each cell of the latter opening by a lateral valve or short cleft. 



1. SPECULARIA, VENUS'S LOOKING-GLASS. (Old Latin name 



of European species is Speculum Veneris.') (J) 



S. Speculum, DC. Garden V. Cult, from Eu. for ornament, is a low 

 herb, with oblong leaves, pretty blue flowers terminating the spreading 

 branches, and linear triangular pod. 



S. perfoliata, DC. Weedy plant in sterile or sandy ground, with 

 simple stems 3'-20' high, furnished throughout with round-heart-shaped 

 clasping leaves, and small flowers in their axils, only the later ones ex- 

 panding a small blue corolla ; pod oblong. 



2. CAMPANULA, BELLFLOWER or HAREBELL. (Diminutive 

 of Italian or late Latin name for bell.) Flowers summer. (Lessons, 

 Fig. 254.) 



* Stigmas and cells of the pod 5 ; calyx with reflexed leafy appendages. 



C. Medium, Linn. Canterbury Bells. Erect, branching, hairy, with 

 coarse toothed leaves, and oblong bell-shaped flowers 2'-3' long, often 

 double. Cult. Eu. ® ® 



* * Stigmas and cells 3. 

 +- Stem leaves all linear or lance-linear. 



C. aparinoldes, Pursh. Delicate weak stems 8'-20' high, and rough 

 backward on the angles, bearing small lance-linear leaves and a few small 

 whitish flowers on diverging peduncles, the bell-shaped corolla 3"-4" 

 long. Grassy wet places. 2Z 



C. rotundifdlia, Linn. Common Harebell. Tufted spreading slender 

 stems 5'-12' high ; round or heart-shaped root leaves, dying early, but 

 narrow mostly linear stem leaves (the specific name therefore unfortu- 

 nate) ; flowers few, slender-peduncled, the blue bell-shaped corolla 6"-8" 

 long, handsome. Rocks N. 2/ 



*- ■«- Stem leaves lance-ovate or broader ; flowers normally blue. 



++ Flowers paniculate or scattered, long-peduncled. 



C. Carpdtica, Jacq. Smooth, tufted, 6'-10' high, with roundish or 

 ovate petioled small leaves, slender 1-flowered peduncles, and open bell- 

 shaped corolla about 1' long. 



