610 PHARMACEUTICAL BOTANY 
usually 5 stamens, an inferior ovary and a three- to two-cleft 
stigma. 
CAMPANULACE2 OR BLUEBELL FAmity.—Herbs of annual 
or more commonly perennial growth rarely sub-shrubby or sub- 
woody in habit, frequently with laticiferous tubes containing a 
milky juice. Stem upright or feeble and spreading. Leaves 
alternate, simple, exstipulate. Inflorescence primitively a race- 
mose cyme, condensing into a raceme, to a sub-capitulum and 
ultimately to a capitulum. Flowers regular, campanulate to 
campanulate-elongate to elongate and deeply cleft in petals; 
sepals five, only slightly synsepalous, epigynous; petals five, 
campanulate to campanulate-tubular to tubular-elongate to 
tubular and deeply cleft; corolla varying in color from greenish- 
yellow to yellowish-white to white or again, from yellowish- 
purple (rarely through yellowish-pink or red) to purple to pure 
blue; stamens five, epigynous, usually free from corolla; nectary 
epigynous; pistil usually tricarpellary; ovary as many celled as 
number of carpels and with central placenta; style single, elon- 
gate; stigmas as many as carpels. Fruit a capsule. Seeds 
albuminous. The plants contain inulin. 
LoBeLiaAcEz or LoBeuia F AMILY.—Herbs, with inulin and 
latex contents, corresponding with Campanulacee in their vegeta- 
tive parts, but differing from that group by having irregular 
flowers (pale blue in Lobelia inflata), anthers always united into 
a tube (synantherous) and pistil always bicarpellate with two- 
celled ovary and bilobed or bilabiate stigma. 
OrrIctaL Druc Parts Usep _— BoTANICAL ORIGIN HABITAT 
Lobelia Leaves and tops Lobelia inflata United States and Canada 
Composir# (AsTERACER®) or Darsy Famity.—Herbs_ of 
annual or perennial habit, rarely shrubs or trees, and with 
watery or milky juice. Inulin is present in cell sap of paren- 
chyma. Leaves alternate, rarely opposite, simple to compound, 
exstipulate. Inflorescence a capitulum or a raceme of capitula, 
each capitulum surrounded by an involucre or protective whorl 
of bracts, and composed of numerous small flowers called florets 
that may be: (a) wholly regular, tubular and hermaphrodite 
(Thistle, etc.); or (6) central florets as in (a), but marginals 
