210 HEATH FAMILY. 



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

 stems 3' -20' high, furnished throughout with round-iieartshaped clasping 

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

 hlue corolla ; pod oblong. 



2. CAMPANULA, BELLFLOWER or HAREBELL. (Diminutive of 

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



* Wild species of the country, all with 3 stigmas and S-celled pod. 



C. Americana, Tall Wild B. Rich moist ground especially "W., with 

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

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

 curved style. ® @ 



C. aparinoides, Small Mabsh B. Grassy wet places, with delicate 

 weak ktem 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. :^ 



C. rotundifolia, Commox Harebell. On precipices and rocky banks 

 N., with 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 unfortunate), and a few slender-pcduucled flowers, the blue bpU-shaped 

 corolla G'- 8" long. y. 



» * European species of the gardens : flowers mostly blue, with white varieties. 

 t- Stigmas and cells of the pod 3 : no appendages to calyx, y. 



C. Carpathiea. Smooth, tufted, 6' - lO' high, with roundish or ovate 

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

 about V long. 



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

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

 petioled, upper lance-ovate and sessile, nodding flowers in the axil of bracts 

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



C. Trachelium. Rou»hish-hairy, 2° -3° high, with more coarSely toothed 

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



C. persicsefolia. 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 l|' - 2' long, sometimes double. 



■1- -1- Stiginas and cells of the pod 5 : calyx with refiexed leafy appendages, (i) @ 



C Medium, Cantekdurt Bells. Erect, branching, hairy, with coarse 

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



3. PLATYCODON. (A Greek-made name, means firwi<iW//?o«jer.) y. 



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 to define as a whole ; 

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

 regular, and with as many or twice as many stami^ns a^ there are 

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

 commonly opening by a pore or hole at the end ; ovary mostly 

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

 and seeds small. 



EPACitis is a genu^! and the type of a family or sub-order of 

 lleath-Kke thrubs, of Australia, some of them cult, in conservatories. 



