XLI. CAMPANULA FAMILY. CAMPANULACE^]. 



Herbs, with alternate, entire or toothed leaves, without sti- 

 pules ; the flowers most commonly blue or white, either distinct, 

 or collected into heads with a general involucre. Calyx adhering 

 to the ovary, with a free border of 5 teeth or lobes, sometimes 

 very narrow and almost reduced to bristles. Corolla inserted 

 within the lobes of the calyx, regular or irregular, with 5 teeth or 

 lobes. Stamens 5, inserted within the corolla at its base, but 

 otherwise free from it. Anthers distinct, or rarely cohering in 

 a ring round the style. Style single, with an entire or divided 

 stigma. \ Ovary and capsule inferior, divided into from 2 to 5 

 cells, with several seeds in each (or, in a very few exotic species, 

 reduced to one seed). 



A rather large family, widely spread over the temperate regions of 

 both hemispheres, especially the northern one, and crossing the tropics 

 chiefly in mountainous districts. The insertion of the stamens within 

 the base of the corolla, and not upon its tube, is peculiar, among British 

 Monopetals, to this Order and to the Heath family ; and from the latter, 

 Camjpanulacece are easily known by their herbaceous stems, and the 

 number of stamens always equal to, never double, that of the lobes of 

 the corolla. 



Corolla very irregular, split open on the upper side. Anthers 



closely cohering 1. Lobelia. 



Corolla regular or nearly so. Anthers free or cohering at 

 the base only. 

 Segments of the corolla deep and narrow -linear. Flowers 

 in heads or dense spikes. 

 Anthers united in a ring at the base. Heads small, 



hemispherical 2. Jasione. 



Anthers distant. Flower-buds cylindrical, curved. 



Heads globular or elongated 3. Rampion. 



Lobes of the corolla broad and short ...... 4. Campanula. 



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