268 FLOWERS OF FIELD, HILL, AND SWAMP 



There is a species called goat's-beard ( T.praii7isis), which bears 

 yellow flowers. 



21. Bell-flower 



Camp&nula ranuncu/oides. — Family, Campanula. Co/or, 

 purple. Leaves, bract-like above, the lower with long petioles 

 and heart-shaped. IHtne, summer. 



Calyx and corolla, bell-shaped and 5-cleft, the points spread- 

 ing. Flowers i inch long. 



This is a pretty plant, rather stiff in its foliage, escaped from 

 cultivation in country gardens, where also it is still found. The 

 large, bell-like flowers hang from short pedicels in the axils of the 

 upper bract-like leaves. 2 or 3 feet tall. 



22. Black Henbane 



Hyoscyamus niger. — Family, Nightshade. Color, dull, 

 brownish yellow, marked with purple veins. Leaves, clasping 

 the stem, wavy in outline, angled or toothed. 



Calyx, tubular, 5-lobed. Corolla, funnel - shaped, with a 

 5 - lobed, plaited border. The capsule, surrounded by the 

 calyx, opens with a round lid near the top. Flowers in the 

 axils of the leaves in one-sided, leafy spikes. Plant with a 

 disagreeable scent, poisonous. 



23. Snapdragon 



Antirrhinum mdjus. — Family, Figwort. Color, purple, blue, 

 or white. Leaves, smooth, oblong, numerous, lower opposite 

 or whorled. Time, summer and autumn. 



A well-known cultivated plant escaping from old gardens. The 

 corolla forms a type of many members of the Figwort family, 2- 

 lipped, the lips meeting and closing the tube. By pressing the 

 thumb and finger on the sides the flower may be made to open 

 widely, like an animal's mouth. Letting it go, it shuts again 

 suddenly, easily suggesting the common name. Flowers nearly 2 

 inches long, in racemes. 



A smaller species is A. Ordntium. 



