136 COMMON CAMADIAX WILD PLANTS. 



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

 Uue. Stem low, 4-18 inches high, very slender. Pedicels 

 filiform, as long as the ilowers, with 2 minute hractlets 

 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., (Water Lobelia) with small 

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

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

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



Obdbb LII. CAMPANULA' CEiE. (Campanula F.) , 



Herbs with milky juice, differing from the preceding 

 Order chiefly in having a regular 5-lobed corolla {hell-nhaped 

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

 3) stigmas. 



Syuopsls of the Genera. 



1. Cnnipaii'niii. Calyx 5-cleft. Corolla nearly wheel-shaped, 5-lohed. 



Pod shoi't. 



2. Specula'rl.-i. Calyx 5-cleft. Corolla nearly wheel-shaped, 5-lobed. 



Pod prismatic or oblong. 



1, €AIHPA]V'IJI.A, Tourn. Bell-flowek. 



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

 loosely panicled, on long slender peduncles, nodding. Stem 

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

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

 — Shaded banks. 



2. C. aparinoi'des, Pursh. (Marsh 13 ell -flower.) 

 Flowers while or nearly so, about ^ of an inch long. Stem 

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

 wards. Leaves linear-lanceolate. Calyx-lobes triangular. 

 — Wot places in high grass. This plant has the habit of a 

 Galium. 



3. C. America' na, L, (Tall Bell-flower.) Flowers 

 light blue, about an inch across, crowded in a leafy spike. 

 OoroUa deeply 5-lobed. Style long and curved. Stem 3-6 



