242 BLUEBELL ORDER 



- Campanula Linne 1753 Bluebell 



(Diminutive of It. campana, bell) 



PL 36, fig. 1, 2, 6. 



Sepals 5, united, petals 5, usually blue or purple, rarely white, united 



into a bell-shaped corolla, stamens 5, free from the corolla, ovary 3-5- 



celled, stigma 3-5-lobed, capsule crowned by the long calyx-lobes, opening 



by 3-5 small holes ; flowers solitary or clustered ; leaves alternate, entire 



or toothed, rarely lobed ; annual or perennial. 



1. Flowers nodding; corolla deeply bell-shaped, 1.5- 



3 cm. long ; fruit nodding C. rotundifolia 



2. Flowers erect, spreading or horizontal, not nod- 



ding 



a. Corolla tubular bell-shaped, 8-12 mm. long; 



flowers solitary; at 12-14,000 ft. C.uniflora 



b. Corolla broadly open ; flowers often 2 or more ; 



at 5-12,000 ft. 



( 1 ) Flowers about 1 cm. wide, several-many 



in an open cluster C. aparinoides 



(2) Flowers 2-3 cm. wide, 1-few in a cluster C. Pdrryi 



Laurentia Micheli 1729 

 (From Laurent, a French botanist) 

 Sepals 5, united, petals 5, blue, united into a closed tube, 2-lipped, 

 stamens 5, united by the anthers, ovary 2-celled, fruit a capsule, opening at 

 the top; flowers few, axillary; leaves alternate, simple; perennial. 

 Stems 4-5 in. high; leaves linear, 1.5-3 cm. long L. eximia 



Lobelia Linne 1753 Lobelia, Cardinal Flower 



(Named for de L'Obel, a Flemish botanist) 



Sepals 5, united, petals 5, red, blue or white, united into a 2-lipped 



corolla, split to the base on one side, stamens 5, united by the anthers, 



ovary 2-celled, capsule 2-valved from the top ; flowers in long racemes ; 



leaves alternate, simple ; perennial. 



1. Flowers red, 2-2.5 cm. long L. cardindlis 



2. Flowers blue, rarely white, 1-1.5 cm. long L. syphilitica 



Specularia Heister 1830 Venus' Looking Glass 



(Latin speculum, looking-glass) 



Sepals 3-5, united, petals 5, blue, united into a saucer-shaped corolla, 



the earlier flowers without petals, stamens 5, ovary 3-celled, stigma 3-lobed, 



capsule opening by lateral valves; flowers axillary, the earlier small, green, 



