PENTANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Lobelia. 297 



Germ, roundish, inferior. Style cylindrical, erect, longer 

 than the stamens. Stigma cloven ; in some flowers club- 

 shaped and only slightly notched. Caps, bladdery, round- 

 ish, with 5 angles, imperfectly 2-celled, opening by a 

 round pore at the top ; the partitions perpendicular, op- 

 posite, not completely meeting. Seeds numerous, elliptic- 

 oblong, very minute, covering a globular, stalked, uncon- 

 nected receptacle, in the bottom of the capsule. 



The central Jiowers having often a club-shaped stigma, are 

 abortive, while their anthers are the most perfect. 



Herbaceous, with simple leaves, and aggregate blue Jloxvers. 

 Only one certain species. See Curt. Mag. t. 2198. 



1. J. montana. Common Sheep's-bit. Sheep's Sca- 

 bious. 

 J.montana. Linn. Sp. PL \3\7. Willd. v. I. 888. Fl.Br.2A\. 



Engl. Bot. v. 13. t. 882. Curt. Lond. fasc. 4. t. 58. Hook, 



Scot. 76. Fl. Dan. t. 3\9. 

 Rapunculus n. 678. Hall. Hist. v. 1 . 303. 

 R. Scabiosa; capitulo cseruleo. Bauh. Pin. 92. Raii Syn. 278. 

 Rapuntium alterum leptophyllon capitatum. Column. Ecphr. 226. 



1.227. 



Scabiosa minima hirsuta. Ger. Em. 723. /. 



S. media. Lob. 7c. 536./. 



In dry sandy fields, and heathy ground, plentiful. 



Annual. June, July. m 



Root tapering, rather woody, said to be occasionally perennial in 

 the south of Europe ; see Willdenow. Herb rough with short 

 rigid hairs. Stems several, a span high, simple or branched, 

 roundish, leafy. Leaves sessile, oblong, bluntish, wavy, entire 

 or unequally serrated, gradually smaller from the root upwards, 

 alternate. 'Fl. small, in round, solitary, terminal tufts, on short 

 partial stalks, each tuft surrounded by several ovate bracteas, 

 analogous to those of Phyteuma, which Linneeus esteemed a ge- 

 neral calyx, misled bv the idea of a compound flower, suggested 

 probably by the combined anthers. Corolla light blue. Stigma 

 purplish. 



This plant is closely related to Phyteuma; but the partitions ot the 

 capsule, and its terminal entire orifice, added to the combined 

 anthers, afford perhaps good marks of generic distinction. 



109. LOBELIA. Lobelia. 



Linn. Gen. PL 456. Juss. 1 65. Fl. Br. 242. Lam. t. 724, 

 Rapuntium. Tourn. t.5\. Gcertn. t. 30. 



Nat. Ord. see n. 106. 



