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either racemes, spikes, or heads. The flowers, which are commonly 

 large and conspicuous, are usually of a blue colour. Except that the 

 corolla is in some instances actinomorphic, in others zygomorphic, the 



Fig. 584.— Campanula rotundifolia. a, Flower ; Fig. 5Sb.—BcbaUium (CucurbUaeeae). Diagram of a 

 6, the same cut through longitudinally. male (A) and of a female flower (£). (After 



(Nat. size.) Bichleb ) 



flowers have essentially the same structure throughout the whole 

 order. The anthers, though sometimes free and distinct, more 

 frequently adhere together or are entirely coalescent. The fruit is a 

 capsule, or more rarely a berry. 



Fig. 586. — Cucurbita Pepo. a, Male flower ; b, female flower ; c, transverse section of ovary ; 

 :■, epicarp ; gb, vascular bundles ; s, ovules, (a, b, reduced ; c, nat. size.) 



Family Campanulaeeae. — Flowers actinomorphic ; anthers free 

 or adherent; ovary usually teilocular; fruit a capsule (Fig. 584). 



Representative Genera. — Campanula (Bell-flower), corolla oampanulate 

 (Fig. 584). Phyteuma (Rampion) and Jasiows (J. montana, Sheep's-bit), with 



