156 PEXTAXDKIA MOKaGYNIA 



0!s. This is a suprrb plant* and worlliy of a place in every ornamental rriroV 

 It hi a long time in flower, commencing to bloom at the fthe raceme anl 



gradually extending to the summit. Vermifuge properties have been ascribed 

 this species J Hit I know not mm correctly. Five or six additional species aroonu 

 marated in the U. States. 



118. CAMPANULA, /,. JWr7. Gen. 209. 



(Latin, Campanula! a Little Hell ; from the form Of the corolla.] 



C'ali/.r mostly 5-cleft. Corolla most'; campanu late, and 5-cleft, closed 

 si^ bottom by 3 6taminiferouB valves. Stigma mostly 9-cIoft, Cab* 

 sule 3-(rarc!y 5-) celled, opening by lateral pores. 



Herbaceous* or rarely suffrvticosi • lactescent ; leaves mostly alternate ; flower 

 (iracteate, axillary, s Hilary, or fascu ulate, s metimos in terminal spikes, or pan] 

 Gles. Nat* Or I. 174. Lin 11. Campan w.aok.b. 



1. C. AM?LKX!i'\n.i?,J/.r. Stem mostly simple, erect, angular • an- 

 gles hispid ; leaves subcordate-reniform, crenate-dentate, concave am- 

 plcxicaul ; flowers axillary, sessile, glomerate. Beck, But. />. 213, 

 0- perfoliate. IVilid. Sp. 1. p. 915. Pers. Syn. 1. p. 193. jftt 

 Xew. 1. p % 352. Muhl. Cat a!, p. 22. Pursh, Am. 1. p. 160. Bigel. 

 Rest. p. 85. LindL Ency. p. 166. 



STK^f -C I. AS P I V« C A M PAM'LA, 



Rent annual. Stem 9 to 18 inches high, rarely branched ; angles hispid witk 

 threading or somewhat retrorse bristles. Leaves half an inch to three-quarters ii 

 length, and nearly an inch wide, closely amplexicaol ; upper surface concave ana" 

 aearly smooth; under surface prominently veined; somewhat hispid on the vein* 

 and ciliate on the margin* Plotters closely sessile, 1 to 3 or 4 in the axil of each 

 leaf. Calyx-segments ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, with one or twt bristles at 

 apex, somewhat spn-ading, sparingly ciliate. Corolla bluish purple ; lobes i vate. 

 8ta?nens scarcely half as long as the corolla ; filaments dilated at base, forming J 

 kind of connivent valves. Capsule, oblong, angular, crowned with the persistent 

 calyx-segments, 3-cellcd, opening on the sides by 3 oblong valves, keeled within 

 which are situated over the dissepiments, detach themselves Mow, and become 

 revolute outward and upward. Seeds numerous, minute, lenticular, reddish brow* 

 smooth anil shining. 



Bab. Pastures, and grain-fields: common. /V.June. FY. July. 



06a. Dr. Torrey mentions a small slender variety, with apetalous flowers, ant 

 2-elcft calyx, which I have not observed hero. 



$. C. ame*icaka, L. Stem ereet, sometimes branched, emoothish,or 

 pilose ; leaves ovate-lanceolate, much acuminate, uncinately serrate, 

 membranaceous, narrowed at base, the lower ones often subcordate, with 

 ciliate petioles ; flowers subsolitary, nearly sessile, in a terminalleafy 

 raceme ; corolla subrotatc ; style exsertcd. Beck, Bot. p. 213. 

 C. acuminata. Mx. Am. \. p % 108. Bart. Phil. 1. p. 114. FJl. Sk I 

 p. 262. Also, Pere. Syn. 1. p. 190, Pursh, Am. 1. p. 159. 5w*tf! 

 Gen. I. p. 136. Torr. Fl. 1 p. 237. Ejusd. Comp. p. 112. Eat. Man* 

 p. 65. 



AmmieAx Campaxitla. 



.#00/ perennial 1 (biennial, MM. annual, Willd.). Stem 2 to 3 feet high, ofces 

 ftrattfce*, and considerably pilose. Leaves 2 to 5 inches ion-, and an lack te as 



