. Plants and their uses; an introduction to botany. Botany; Botany, Economic. THE MORNING-GLORY FAMILY 381. Fig. 299, II.—Creeping Bellflower (Campanula rapunculoides, Bellflower Family, Campanutacece). A, flowering branch. B, flower, cut verti- cally, enlarged. C, floral diagram. D, fruit opening by little doors at base, enlarged. E, seed, entire, and cut vertically, enlarged. (Le- Maout and Decaisne.)—A perennial herb 30-90 cm. tall; flowers blue; fruit dry. Native home, Eurasia; run wild from gardens. the corolla and the dehiscence of the capsule. So complete is the coalescence of the petal
. Plants and their uses; an introduction to botany. Botany; Botany, Economic. THE MORNING-GLORY FAMILY 381. Fig. 299, II.—Creeping Bellflower (Campanula rapunculoides, Bellflower Family, Campanutacece). A, flowering branch. B, flower, cut verti- cally, enlarged. C, floral diagram. D, fruit opening by little doors at base, enlarged. E, seed, entire, and cut vertically, enlarged. (Le- Maout and Decaisne.)—A perennial herb 30-90 cm. tall; flowers blue; fruit dry. Native home, Eurasia; run wild from gardens. the corolla and the dehiscence of the capsule. So complete is the coalescence of the petals in most members of the family and so flaring the corolla, that as it forms in the bud it be- comes folded or plicate,^ and the folds overlap in a convolute manner. Such sestivation may be described as plicate- convolute. The capsule of the morning-glorj^ (of which the sweet potato is one species) differs from the other capsules we have studied in having the valves separate not only from one Pli'cate < L. plicalus, folded into plaits. P ^ . left) with one of the other two which together with the middle one are to form the strap-shaped corolla. S, somewhat later stage sliowing the three lobes of the strap-shaped corolla (c) and the inferior ovary (g). (Payer.)—A perennial herb about 1 m. or more tall; resembling a sun- flower. Native home. Eastern United States; familiar in Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Sargent, Frederick Leroy, 1863-. New York, H. Holt and Company
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