210 HEATIl KAIIILY. 



S. perfoli^ta, a wild weedy plant in sterile or sandy ground, with simple - 

 stems 3' - 20', high, furnished throughput with round-heart-shaped clasping 

 leaves, and small iiowers in their axils, only the later ones expanding a small 

 blue corolla ; pod oblong. 



2. CAMPANULA, BELLFLOWER or HAEEBELL. (Diminutive of 



Italian or late Latin name for bell.) El. summer. (Lessons, p. 102, fig. 207.) 

 » Wild species of the country, all with 3 stigmas and 3-ceUed pod. 



C. Americana, Tall Wild B. Kich moist ground especialUy W., with 

 stem 3° - 6° high, thin lance-ovate taper-pointed serrate leaves, and long loose 

 Bpike of flowers, the almost wheel-shaped light-blue corolla 1' broad, and long 

 curved style. ® ® 



C. aparinoldes, Small Maesh B. Grassy wet places, with delicate 

 weak stem 8' - 20' high, and rough backward on the angles, bearing small lance- 

 linear leaves and a few small flowers on diverging peduncles, the bell-shaped 

 corolla 3" -4" long. 21- 



C. rotundifdlia, Common Harebell. On precipices and rocky banks 

 N., with tufted spreading slender stems 5' - 12'- higji; round or heart-shaped 

 root-leaves, dying early, but narrow mostly linear stem-leaves (the specific name 

 therefore unfortunate), and a few slender-peduncled flowers, the blue bell-shaped 

 corolla 6" - 8" long. 2/ 



* * European species oftlm gardens : flowers mostly blue, with' white varieties. 

 ■*- Stigmas and cells of the pod 3 : no appendages to calyx, y, 



C Carp^thica. Smooth, tufted, 6' - 10' high, with roundish or ovats 

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

 about 1' lorig. 



C rapunculoldes. Weedy, spreading inveterately by the root, rather 

 hairy, the erect leafy stems l°-2° high, with lowest leaves heart-shaped and 

 petioled, upper lauce-ovate and sessilej nodding flowers in the axil of bracts 

 forming a leafy raceme, and tubular-bell-shaped corolla 1' long. 



C. Traeh^lium. Eoughish-hairy, 2° - 3° high, with more coarsely toothed 

 and broader leaves than the last, and rather larger bell-shaped corolla. 



C. persiceefolia. Smooth, with upright stems l°-2^° high, and bearing 

 small lance-linear leaves, root-leaves broader, all beset with minute close teeth ; 

 the flowers nearly sessile and erect, rather few in a sort of raceme, the open bell- 

 shaped corolla 1^' - 2' long, sometimes double. 



1- -I- Stigmas and cells of the pod 5 : calyx with reflexed leafy appendages. ® (5) 



C. Medium, Cantekburt Pells. Erect, branching, hairy, mth coarse 

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



8. PLATYCODON. (A Greek-made name, means 6rond6c///?oK;er.) ^ 

 P. grandiflbrum. Cult, from Siberia ; very smooth, pale or glaucous, 

 rather low and spreading, with lance-ovate coarsely toothed leaves, terminal 

 peduncle bearing a showy flower, the broadly expanded 5-lobed corolla fully 

 2' broad, blue or white, sometimes double, in summer. 



64. ERICACE^, HEATH FAMILY. 



Very large family, chiefly of shrubs, difficult (6 define as a whole; 

 the leaves are simple and mostly alternate ; the flowers almost all 

 regular, and with as many or twice as many stamens as there are 

 petals or lobes of the corolla ; their anthers 2-celled, each cell more 

 commonly opening by a pore or hole at the e"nd ; ovary mostly 

 with as many cells a3 there are lobes to the corolla ; style only one, 

 and seeds small. 



Epacris is a genn<! and the type of a family or sub-order of 

 Heath-like shrubs, of Australia, some of them cult, in conservatories, 



