84 COMMON CANADIAN WILD PLANTS. 



2. L. syphilit'ica, L. (GREAT LOBELIA.) Corolla rat In r l nj<\ 

 light Hue. Stem hairy, simple, 1-2 feet high. Leaves thin, acute 

 at both ends, serrate. Calyx-lobes half as long as the corolla, the 

 tube hemispherical. Flowers in a dense spike or raceme. Low 

 grounds. 



3. L. infla'ta, L. (INDIAN TOBACCO.) Flowers small, % of an 

 inch long, pale blue. Stem leafy, branching, 8-18 inches high, 

 pubescent. Leaves ovate or oblong, toothed. Pods injlaf< /. 

 Racemes leafy. Dry fields. 



4. L. Spica'ta, Lam. Flowers small, g of an inch long, /'/< 

 blue. Stem slender, erect, simple, 1-3 feet high, minutely pubes- 

 cent below. Leaves barely toothed, the lower spathulate or 

 obovatc, the upper reduced to linear bracts. Racemes long and 

 naked. Sandy soil. 



5. L, Kal'mii, L. Flowers small, ^ of an inch long, light blue. 

 Stem low, 4-18 inches high, very slender. Pedicels filiform, as 

 long as the flowers, with 2 minute bractlets above the middle. 

 Leaves mostly linear, the radical ones spathulate and the upper- 

 most reduced to bristly bracts. Wet rocks and hanks, chiefly 

 northward. 



6. L. Dortman'na, L., (WATER LOBELIA) with small leaves 

 all tufted at the root, and a scape 5 or 6 inches long with a few 

 small light-blue pedicelled flowers at the summit, occurs in the 

 shallow borders of ponds in Muskoka. 



ORDER LI. CAMPANULA'CEJE. (CAMPANULA F.) 



Herbs with milky juice, differing from the preceding Order 

 chiefly in having a regular 5-lobed corolla (bell-shaped or //// 'W- 

 shaped), separate stamens (5), and 2 or more (with us, 3) stigmas. 

 Synopsis of tlie Genera. 



1. Campaii'ulfi. Calyx 5-clcft. Corolla generally bell-shaped, f>-lobed. 1'od 



short. 



2. Specula'ria. Calyx 5-cleft. Corolla nearly wheel-shaped, f>-lobed. Pod 



prismatic or oblong. 



1. CAMPAN'UL-A, Tourii. BELL-FLOWEK. 



1. C. rotundifolia, L. (IL\ui;r.Ku,.) Flowers blue, loosely 

 panicled, on long slender peduncles, nodding. Stem slender, 





