
BELLFLOWER FAMILY. Campanutlaceae. 
BELLFLOWER FAMILY. Campanulaceae. 
A large family, widely distributed. Ours are small 
herbs, with bitter milky juice; leaves alternate, without 
stipules; flowers perfect, usually with five sepals; corolla 
with five united lobes; stamens fiye; ovary inferior, style 
long, sometimes hairy, with two to five stigmas, which do 
not expand until some time after the flower opens. 
There are a great many kinds of Campanula; ours are 
chiefly perennials, with more or less bell-shaped corollas; 
the capsule tipped with the remains of the calyx and open- 
ing at the sides by minute holes. The name is from the 
Latin, meaning “‘little bell.” 
This is the well-known kind, sung by 
the poets, and found across our continent 
and in Europe and Asia, reaching an 
‘Harebell, Blue 
Bells of Scotland 
Campénula F 
rotundifolia altitude of twelve thousand feet. <A 
Violet charming, graceful little plant, with 
Summer slender stems, from six inches to two feet 
West, etc. 
tall, springing from a cluster of dull green, 
roundish or heart-shaped leaves, which usually wither 
away before the flowers bloom; the stem-leaves long and 
narrow. The flowers hang on threadlike pedicels, usually 
in a loose cluster, and are less than an inch long, violet 
or blue and paler at the base, with a long white pistil and 
pale yellow or lilac anthers. Neither the plants nor the 
flowers are nearly so fragile as they look, for the stems are 
wiry and the flowers are slightly papery in texture. This 
plant is variable and may include more than one kind. It 
seems hardly necessary to remark that it is not to be 
confused with Calochortus albus, which is unfortunately 
sometimes called Hairbell and is entirely different, but I 
have several times been asked whether they were the same. 
A pretty little plant, with smooth, 
ondirs slender stems, from six to eight inches 
Scoileri tall, and smooth, toothed leaves. The 
White, lilac flowers are in a loose cluster and are more 
= the shape of little Lilies than of Blue 
Beret. Oe Bells, white tinged with lilac, or pale blue, 
with yellow anthers and a long pistil with three pink 
stigmas. The California Harebell, C. prenanthoides, has 
blue flowers, similar in shape. 
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