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BRITISH FLOWERING PLANTS 



Order XLVI. Campanulacece (6 genera) 



In this Order the leaves are alternate, and the 

 flowers are either single or composite. The 

 calyx is 5-lobed, and is attached to the edge of 

 a cup-shaped receptacle. There are 5 stamens 

 inserted alternately with the lobes of the corolla on 

 the borders of the receptacle, and the anthers are 

 free, or united into a tube at the base. The 

 Eritish species have blue, or, more rarely, white 

 flowers. 



The Water Lobelia {Lobelia Dortmannd) grows 

 in lakes in Scotland, Ireland and Wales, and in the 

 West of England. The leaves form a thick rosette 

 at the bottom of the water, and are hollow, linear, 

 and truncated at the extremity. The flower-stalks 

 are almost leafless, and the pale blue flowers rise 

 several inches above the water. The corolla is 

 irregular, and bilobate, the upper lip smallest, and 

 bifid, the lower one less deeply trifid. 



A plant about a foot high, bearing a composite 

 blue flower, three or four branching from the end 

 of the stem, is common on hillsides and waste 



places. It is called the Sheep's Scabious (/asione 

 montana), and flowers in summer. 



Giant Bell-Flower — Campanula latifolia 

 (Plate LI I) 



This is a very handsome plant, which flowers in 

 June and August. It is found in woods, and is 

 commoner in the north of England than in the 

 south. The branching root throws up one or several 

 stems, which are bare, or sometimes slightly hairy 

 below, and ridged. The leaves are strongly 

 serrated, and pointed at the tip ; and are set with 

 short bristles on the under-surface. The lower 

 ones are oval, with long stalks, and the leaf-stalk 

 is somewhat expanded ; the middle ones are 

 longer, oval or lanceolate, and the stalks are shorter; 

 while the upper leaves are sessile, and reduced to 

 bracts between the terminal flowers. The flowers 

 are placed singly in the axils of the leaves, and 

 are very large. The calyx is smooth, or near the 

 receptacle slightly downy. The lobes are long, 

 narrow, pointed, and set with fine hairs. The 



