GENUS 1. BELLFLOWER FAMILY. 295 
2. Campanula rotundifolia L. Harebell. 
Blue Bells of Scotland. Fig. 4016. 
Campanula rotundifolia L. Sp. Pl. 163. 1753. 
Campanula rotundifolia velutina DC. Fl. France 
65432. 1875. 
C. linifolia var. Langsdorfiana A. DC. Prodr. 7: 
471. 1839. 
Campanula rotundifolia Langsdorfiana Britton, 
Mem. Torr. Club 5: 309. 1894. 
Perennial by slender rootstocks, glabrous or 
nearly so or sometimes pubescent or canes- 
cent; stems erect or diffuse, often several 
from the same root, simple or branched, 6’-3° 
high. Basal leaves nearly orbicular or broadly 
ovate, usually cordate, slender-petioled, 4’-1’ 
wide, dentate or entire, often wanting at flow- 
ering time; stem leaves linear or linear-oblong, 
acute, mostly entire, sessile, or the lower nar- 
rowed into short petioles and somewhat spatu- 
late; flowers several or numerous, racemose or 
sometimes solitary, drooping or spreading, 
slender-pedicelled ; calyx-lobes subulate to fili- 
form, spreading, Jonger than the short-turbi- 
nate tube; corolla blue, campanulate, 7’-12” 
long; capsule obconic or ovoid, pendulous, 
ribbed, opening by short clefts near the base. U 
On moist rocks and in meadows, Labrador to Alaska, south to New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Illi- 
nois, Nebraska, in the Rocky Mountains to Arizona and in the Sierra Nevada to California. Also 
in Europe and Asia. Consists of many races, differing in pubescence, number and size of flowers; 
arctic and alpine plants are usually 1-few-flowered. Other English names are thimbles, lady’s- 
thimble, heath- or witches’-bells, round-leaved bellflower. June—Sept. 
Campanula patula L., which is retrorse-scabrous on the stems and leaf-margins and nerves, 
a basal leaves obovate to spatulate, has been found in fields in Connecticut, introduced from 
urope. 
3. Campanula rapunculoides L. Creep- 
ing or European Bellflower. Fig. 4017. 
Campanula rapunculoides L. Sp. Pl. 165. 1753. 
Perennial by slender rootstocks; stem gla- 
brous or pubescent, simple or rarely branched, 
leafy, erect,. rather stout, 1°-3° high. Leaves 
pubescent or puberulent, crenate-denticulate, 
ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, 
the lower and basal ones mostly cordate, 3’-6’ 
long, 1’-2’ wide, slender-petioled, the upper 
short-petioled or sessile, smaller; flowers short- 
pedicelled, drooping, 1’-13’ long in an elon- 
gated bracted 1-sided raceme; corolla campan- 
ulate, blue to violet, rather deeply 5-lobed, 
much longer than the linear spreading calyx- 
lobes; capsule globose, nodding, about 4” in 
diameter, opening by pores near the base. 
In fields and along roadsides, New Brunswick 
to Ontario, southern New York, Pennsylvania and 
Ohio. Naturalized from Europe. July—Sept. 
4. Campanula Trachélium L. Nettle-leaved Bell- 
flower. Fig. 4018. 
C. Trachelium L. Sp. Pl. 166. 1753. 
Perennial; stem rather stout, little branched, usually 
bearing scattered hairs, 3° high or less; basal leaves 
sparingly bristly-pubescent, ovate to reniform, cordate, 
slender-petioled; stem leaves ovate-lanceolate to lanceo- 
late, coarsely irregularly serrate, 24’-5’ long, acute or 
acuminate at the apex, narrowed at the base, short- 
petioled or the upper sessile; flowers nodding in termi- 
nal leafy-bracted racemes; calyx bristly-hairy or gla- 
brate; corolla campanulate, 1’-14’ long; capsule opening 
by basal pores. ; 
Roadsides and thickets, Quebec to southern New York and 
Ohio. Naturalized from Europe. Canterbury bells. July—Sept. 
