208 (HMPANULACKJE. 



1. C. ELEGANS, Doug. Elegant Clintonia. 



Smooth; stem slender, angular, sparingly branched; leaves sessile, orates, S-vein^ 

 ed; ovarj sessile, long acuminate, triangular, contorted, much longer than the 

 leaves. A beautiful garden annual, native of the Rocky Mountains. Flowsrs of 

 the most intense blue ; corolla with a white spot in the middle of the lower lip. 



Order GO. CAMPANULACE^I— Bell-flower Family. 



Herbs with a mitky juice, alternate leaves, no stipules, and mostly blue, scattered 

 flowers ; the calyx generally 5 -cleft, adlierentto the ovary ; the regular belUshaped 

 corolla 5-cleft, vaZvate in aestivation ; the 5 stamens inserted with the corolla on tit* 

 calyx, free, and usually distinct. Style 1, beset with collecting hairs above; 3Ti<j-^ 

 mas 2 or more. Capsule 2 or more celled, many-seeded. 



1. CAMPANULA, Tourn. Bell-flower. 



Lat. campanula, a little bell; from the form of the corolla. 



Calyx 5-cleft. Corolla mostly bell-shaped, 5-lobed. 

 Stamens 5, seperate, the filaments broad and membranaceous 

 at the base. Stigmas 3 to 5. Capsule 3 to 5-celled, 

 opening by lateral valves. — Mostly, perennial herbs, with al- 

 ternate leaves, and terminal spicate, or axillary flowers. 



1. C. ROTUNDIFOLIA, L. Rock Bell-flower. Hair Bell. 



Stem slender, branching; root-leaves round heart-shaped, crenate. on long peti- 

 oles; stem leaves linear, narrow, entire, smooth; flowers few, nodding; calyx4obes 

 awl-shaped. 



On damp rocks and rocky streams, common. June — Oct. An exceedingly deli- 

 cate species from 6 to 15 inches high, smooth. The root-leaves generally decay on, 

 the opening of the flowers, when the specific name appears wholly inappropriate. 

 Stem-leaves 2 inches long and scarcely a line in width. Floivers terminal, in a 

 loose panicle, bright blue. 



2. C. APARINOIDES, Pursh. Slender Bell-flower. 



Stem weak, slender, simple, somewhat 3-angled; leaves linear-lanceolate; pedun- 

 cles diverging, slender, 1-flowcred ; calyx-lobes triangular, half the length of the bell-, 

 shaped corolla. 



Bogs and wet meadows, common. July, Aug. Stem 8 to 2Q inches-high, rough 

 backwards on the angles, by which it supports itself upright among Hie grass. 

 Lraves smooth on the upper sm-face, denticulate, the margin and veins rou;_di back^. 

 wards. Flowers small, nearly white, on thread-like, flexuous peduncles at the top 

 of the stem. ^ 



3. C. Americana, L. American Bell-flower. 



Stem tall and wand-like, nearly simple; leaves ovate-lanceolate, accumulate at 

 both ends, serrate, sparingly hairy, thin, the lower somewhat heart-shaped ; flowers 

 axillary, sessile; style exserted; lobes of the calyx awl-shaped. 



Moist rich soil, common. July, Aug. A tall erect ornamental species, sometimes 

 cultivated. 2 to 3 feet high. Stem nearly smooth. Leaves ending in a long point, 

 smooth, with fine teeth. Flowers numerous, sessile or on short stalks, one or more 

 ; ,n each axil, forming a terminal leafy raceme or spike, sometimes 2 feet long, 

 tifroUa nearly wheel-shaped, deeply 5-cleft, blue. 



