Campanula jfamil^. 



Bellflower. Campanula rapunculoides. 



Found in July on dry roadsides, and along walls and fences. 



The stalk is single and leafy, slender, and slightly rough with hairs, 

 from 2 to 4 feet in height ; light green. 



The root-leaves are small, and heart-shaped, with scallojjed margins, 

 set on stems that are sometimes 6 inches long. The lowest leaves along 

 the stalk are shaped like an Indian arrow-point ; the upper leaves are 

 long and narrow ; the margins are irregularly toothed, they are thin in 

 texture, hairy, and light green ; and are set on short broad stems which 

 clasp the stalk alternately. 



The corolla is bell-shaped with 5 outward-curving, tapering tips, 

 and a beautiful violet-blue color ; the pistil is 3-parted, protruding, and 

 purple tinted ; the green calyx is 5-parted, its divisions abruptly turned 

 back. The flowers are set along one side of the stalk in the angles of 

 the small upper leaves, forming a long wand-like spire. 



Although the flowers bloom first at the base of the spire, frequently, 

 when the tip has begun to hang out its noticeable bells, fresh buds will 

 push forth far below, and open beside the old dried blossoms at the 

 foot, — for the withered flower clings long to the calyx. 



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