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acuminata* 
aparinoides* 
amplexicau- 
lis. 
PENTANDRIA, MONOGYNIA. 
109. CAMPANULA. Gen. j)l. 889. (Campanulacex.) 
Calix mostly 5* cleft. Corolla campanulate, 
the base closed with 5 staminiferous valves. 
Stigma 3 to 5- cleft. Capsule inferior, 3 or 
, rarely 5 -celled, opening by lateral pores. — 
Nutt. 
1. C. smoothish, erect; leaves ovate-lanceolate, end- 
ing in a long point, subserrate ; spike fascicled, 
many flowered ; corolla subrotate. — Mich, and 
Pursh. 
Pointed- leaved Bellivort, 
From two to three feet high. Flowers pale blue. Very 
rare. Close to the Schuylkill, east side, near the Falls, and 
south of them. Perennial. July, August. 
2. C. weak ; stem simple, angled ; angles as well as 
margins and nerves of the leaves prickly back- 
%vard ; leaves linear-lanceolate, smooth above ; 
peduncles few at the summit of the stem, flexuous, 
axillary one-flowered, filiform, — Pursh. 
C. erinoides, L. 
C. flexuosa, P^Iich* ? 
C. aspera, Donn. 
A rough plant, with small pale blue flowers. Found grow- 
ing along the margins of rivulets. Common. Annual. July. 
3. C. stem simple, erect ; leaves cordate, crenate, 
toothed, amplexicaule ; flowers axillary, sessile, 
clustered. — Willd. 
C. perfoliata, Sp. PL, Walt, and Pursh. 
Icon. Bar. rar. t. 1133. (Pursh.) 
About a foot high. Flowers dark blue. Very common in 
all cultivated fields. Annual. May to August. 
