60 BELLFLOWER, LOBELIAS AND GOODENIAS. 
is so frequently seen on the grasslands of Europe, Asia and 
South Africa, but’ so rarely to be met with in Australian vegeta- 
tion. Our Campanula is not even strictly referable to that 
genus, as modernly defined, but must be placed 
into the genus 
Wahlenbergia, which was dedicated to Professor G. Wahlenberg 
Fie. XXVI. 
Fic. XX VI.—(Lobelia purpurascens).—1, column of sta- 
mens much enlarged; 2, pollen-grain, 300 times magnified ; 
3, column of stamens opened, also style and its stigma. 
of Upsala, a 
most merito- 
rious writer 
on European 
- plants in the 
earlier part of 
this century. 
The Wahlen- 
bergias differ 
merely from the 
genuine Cam- 
panulas by 
terminal not 
lateral dehis- 
cence of the 
fruit with five 
valves or teeth. 
In both genera 
the stamens are 
quite discon- 
nected, whereas 
in our well- 
known  Lobe- 
lias, which be- 
long likewise 
to the order 
of Campanu- 
laceee, the an- 
thers are united 
into a_ tube 
around the 
style, by which 
