164 AMONG THE WILD FLOWERS. 
its first leaves are roundish cordate or reniform, 
afterwards dying off, so that there are only the 
linear leaves of the stem left. This is the 
Blue-bell of Scotland. , 
Shaped like a Campanula as to the lower 
portion of its flower, but with corolla in long 
linear segments, is the pretty blue Sheep’s 
Scabious, Faszone montana, growing in a 
rounded head, almost like a Composite Flower ; 
Linnzeus actually, but erroneously, classed it 
with the Composite. It has also its anthers 
united in a tube; but by other characters is 
marked as one of the Campanulacez. 
This Order has also the genus Lodelza, of 
which the species ZL. Dorvtmanna is submerged 
in water, springing from the gravelly bottom of 
lakes, and at length putting forth just above the 
surface a raceme of pale lilac flowers. The 
writer once gathered it in Shropshire, kneeling 
by a lake side on a bed of wet moss net-worked 
with the trailing stems of the pretty Cranberry. 
Many are the cultivated species of Cam- 
panula, none more beautiful than the well-known 
C. pyramidalis. The blue and red garden 
Lobelias are familiar to all. 
Several Parasitical plants now present them- 
