:;si; Campanulaceae 



simple ; stigma mostly 2-§-lobed. Fruit a capsule or 

 berry. Seeds aumerous and small : embryo minute, 

 straight; endosperm fleshy. (Including the family 



Lobeliaceae of some authors.) 



Corolla regular; stamens separate. 



Capsule opening on the side by 2-3 valves, which leave small round per- 

 forations. I. Legouzia. 

 Capsule opening by a hole left by the falling away of the base of the style. 



2. GlTHOPSIS. 



Corolla irregular; stamens more or less united. 



Anthers free, filaments more or less united; flowers minute. 



3. Nemacladtjs. 

 Anthers connate. 



Corolla-tube open to the base on 1 side. 4. Lobelia. 



Corolla-tube closed. 5. Palmeuella. 



1. LEGOUZIA Durand. 



Annual herbs with long slender stems and branches, 

 alternate toothed or entire leaves, and axillary 2-bracted 

 flowers sessile or nearly so. The earlier flowers small, 

 cleistogamouSj the latter with a blue or purple, nearly 

 rotate corolla. Calyx-tube narrow, the lobes in the 

 earlier (lowers 3-4, in the latter 4-5. Corolla 5-lobed or 

 5-parted, the lobes imbricated in the hud. Filaments 

 flat; anthers separate,- linear; Ovary- 3-celled or rarely 

 2-celled or 4-celled ; stigma usually 3-lobed. Capsule 

 opening by lateral valves. 



1. L. biflora (R. & P.) Britton. Glabrous or nearly so; stem 

 simple or branched, roughish on the angles, 15-30 cm. high; 

 leaves ovate, oblong or the upper lanceolate, sessile, acute or 

 obtuse at the apex, crenate with few teeth or entire, 8 20 mm. 

 long; the calyx-lobes of the earlier (lowers ovate to lanceolate, of 

 the later lanceolate-subulate; capsule oblong-cylindric, 6-10 mm. 

 long, opening by valves close under the calyx-teeth. (Specularia 

 biflora Gray.) 



Occasional on grassy slopes. 



2. GlTHOPSIS Nutt. 



Slender annuals with rather small Linear-oblong coarse- 

 ly toothed sessile leaves. Flowers simply terminating 



