THE BELL-FLOWER FAMILY 
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and divided halfway down into 5 broad spreading lobes. Capsule narrower than in the other 
species, opening at the top just below the persistent calyx-teeth. [As described in the genus 
Campanula.] Stems 1-3 feet high, erect, and hairy, with many spreading branches ; the root- 
leaves oblong or slightly broader, stalked, and scalloped, and the stem-leaves narrower, almost 
stalkless, and nearly entire. \Plate 1 
Rare. Hedges, bushy places, and copses, chiefly in southern and central England. July — August. 
Perennial or annual. 
VI. VENUS’ LOOKING-GLASS. (LEGOUSIA. Durande.) — Flowers purple or white, in 
terminal clusters. Calyx-tube cylindrical, spreading at the top into 5 teeth, remaining with the 
fruit (persistent) ; corolla with a short tube, spreading out into a flat round limb (rotate) with 5 
shallow lobes, inserted on the top of the calyx-tube; stamens 5, the anthers free, inserted at the 
base of the corolla ; carpels 3-5. Capsule long and narrow, longer than the persistent calyx 
3-5-celled, many-seeded, opening by clefts towards the top, between the persistent calyx-teeth. 
Small herbs differing from the Campanulas in their long, narrow capsules and flat spreading 
corollas. ( Specularia . Heist.) 
Small-flowered Venus’ Looking-glass. (Legou'sia hybrida. Delarbre.)— The only 
British species. As just described. The flowers are small and purple, solitary, or 2 or 3 
together, terminating the stem and branches, and are easily distinguished by their long narrow 
calyx-tubes and by the calyx-teeth being longer than the round flat corolla ; the narrow capsules 
are triangular, 3-celled, and open by 3 clefts close under the calyx-teeth; the stem is 3-18 
inches high, often solitary, erect, or the side ones, when present, procumbent at the base, 
hairy, and wiry ; the root-leaves are roundish, with short stalks, fading before the flowers come 
out, and the stem-leaves are oblong and wavy, becoming stalkless at the top. (, Specularia 
hybrida. DC. ; Campanula hybrida. Linn.) \Plate 2. 
Not uncommon in the south and east of England in cornfields, very local elsewhere, local in 
Scotland. June — September. Annual. 
