100 BOTANY OF LA SALLE COUNTY. 



flowers scarlet 1 to 3 ft. Seen in S. E. part of 

 Fall River Tp. 1877, and in Deer Park Tp. on 

 Vermillion 1897. A splendid flower. 



L. syphilitica. P. Blue Lobelia. Great Lobelia. 

 Very leafy, hairy, flowers B., Vi. B. pale B. 1 

 to 2 l /2 ft. Aug-. Sept.. Wet places. 



L. leptos tachys. Stem weak, leaves small; flowers 

 small scattered in a long- spike; B, 10 to 30 in. 

 Ju. J. Meadows. 



Jh. L. spicata. stem slender, 1 to 4 fi.; leaves, lower 

 obovate, upper linear; flowers B. in a long- spike. 

 Gravelly or sandy soils. 



Jh. L. Kalmii. Stem somewhat angled, 1 to 2 ft., 

 erect; leaves linear. 



L. inflata. ? Lobelia. Indian Tobacco. Very 

 branching- hairy; leaves ovate, toothed; flowers 

 small, pale B. 1 to 2 ft. Dry knolls, A power - 

 . ful emetic, not to be trifled with. 



Order 57. CAMPANULA CEAE. Campanulas. 

 Juice milky; leaves alternate; flowers scattered, 

 corolla 5 lobed; stamens 5, pistil one; styles 2. 

 SPECULA RIA. Venus Looking- Glass. Flowers 

 axillary, P. 



S. perfolia ta. Stem erect, grooved, hairy; leaves 

 roundish-cordate, clasping- stem; stiff; 6 to 15 in. 

 Poor dry places. 

 CAMPAN ULA. Flowers terminal or axillary. 



C. P. rotundifolia. Harebell. Very slender; root 

 leaves round-cordate, crenate. petiolate, dark 

 G.; of the stem long- and narrow, flowers broad 

 bell-shaped; Vi. B. 1 in. broad; 10 to 18 in, 

 Ju. Aug-. Bluffs and in clefts of rocks. The 

 root leaves often wither away before the plant 

 flowers; but they are often present. 



C. aparinoides. Weak, 3 ang-led, roug-h, few 



