GENUS 1. BELLFLOWER FAMILY. 297 
8. Campanula divaricata Michx. Pani- 
cled Bellflower. Fig. 4022. 
Comperls divaricata Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 109. 
1803. 
Campanula flexuosa Michx. loc. cit. 1803? 
Perennial, glabrous but sometimes viscid; 
stem erect, paniculately branched, slender, 
1°-3° high. Leaves lanceolate, ovate or oblong- 
lanceolate, the uppermost sometimes linear, 
sharply serrate, acuminate at the apex, nar- 
rowed to the base, the upper sessile, the lower 
petioled, 2’-3’ long, 3-12” wide, or the lowest 
commonly shorter and broader; flowers very 
numerous in compound panicles, drooping, 
slender-pedicelled; corolla light blue, cam- 
panulate, about 3” long; calyx-lobes lanceo- af] aoe Zz. 
late, acute, scarcely spreading, often dentate; Gy) A * oN 
style long-exserted; capsule turbinate, about F Ete \ h 
23” long, opening near the middle. SSSA 
On rocky banks, mountains of Virginia and 
West Virginia to Kentucky, Georgia and Tennes- 
ae Ascends to 2500 ft. in North Carolina. June- 
ept. 
g. Campanula americana L. Tall 
Bellflower. Fig. 4023. 
Campanula americana L. Sp. Pl. 164. 1753. 
Annual or biennial, more or less pubes- 
cent; stem erect or nearly so, rather slen- 
der, simple or rarely with a few long 
branches, 2°-6° high. Leaves thin, ovate, 
oblong, or lanceolate, serrate, acuminate 
at the apex, narrowed at the base, petioled. 
or the upper sessile, 3’-6’ long, the lowest 
sometimes cordate; flowers in a loose or 
dense terminal sometimes leafy spike, which 
is often 1°-2° long; lower bracts foliaceous, 
the upper subulate; corolla rotate, blue, or 
nearly white, about 1’ broad, deeply 5-cleft; 
calyx-lobes linear-subulate, spreading, style 
declined and curved upward, long-exserted ; 
capsule narrowly turbinate, ribbed, erect, 
4’-5”" long, opening near the summit. 
In moist thickets and woods, New Bruns- 
wick to Ontario and South Dakota, south to 
Florida, Kentucky, Kansas and Arkansas. 
Rare near the coast in the Middle States and 
New England. Ascends to 3000 ft. in West 
Virginia. July—Sept. 
2. SPECULARIA Heist.; Fabr. Enum. Pl. Hort. Helmst. 225. 1763. 
[Lecouzia Durand, Fl. Bourg. 2: 26. 1782.] 
Annual herbs, with alternate toothed or entire leaves, the stem and branches long, slen- 
der. Flowers axillary, sessile or nearly so, 2-bracted, or the upper panicled in some exotic 
_ species, the earlier (lower) ones small, cleistogamous, the later with a blue or purple nearly 
rotate corolla. Calyx-tube narrow, the lobes in the earlier flowers 3 or 4, in the later 4 or 5. 
Corolla 5-lobed or 5-parted, the lobes imbricated in the bud. Filaments flat; anthers sepa- 
rate, linear. Ovary 3-celled (rarely 2- or 4-celled) ; ovules numerous; stigma usually 3-lobed. 
Capsule prismatic, cylindric, or narrowly obconic, opening by lateral valves. Seeds ovoid, 
oblong, or lenticular. [From Speculum Veneris, the Latin name of the type species.] 
About 10 species, natives of the northern hemisphere, one extending into South America. 
Type species: Campanula Spéculum L.; S. Spéculum (L.) DC., of Europe, which is adventive in 
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. 
Capsule narrowly oblong. 
es ie Lap ui walaeE near the top. 1. S. biflora. 
Leaves cordate-clasping ; capsule-valves at about the middle. 2. S. perfoliata. 
Capsule linear-cylindric; leaves sessile; western. 3. S.leptocarpa. 
