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# Exotic, cultivated for ornament. 



L. Erinus, from Cape of Good Hope, the common low and spreading little 

 Lobelia of conservatories and summer gardens, with abundant small flowers 

 azure-blue, usually white in the throat, and narrow toothed upper leaves : (V) or 

 continued by cuttings. 



L. laxiflbra, from Mexico, cultivated in conservatories under the name of 

 SiPHoclMPYLUS nf COLOR ; tall, with curved and large red and yellow flowers, 

 hanging on long slender peduncles from the axils of the oblong or lanceolate 

 toothed leaves. 2/ 



* * Wild species of the country, one or two of them sometimes cultivated for orna- 

 ment ; fl. summer : growing in ivet or low grounds, except two of them. 

 *- Corolla deep red : stems tall and simple. 



L. cardinalis, CARDINAL-FLOWER, with lance-oblong leaves and erect 

 raceme of large and showy flowers, which are very rarely rose-colored or even 

 white. 11 



*- *- Flowers blue or with some white in the throat. 



L. inflata, INDIAN TOBACCO. Somewhat hairy, 9' -18' high, much 

 branched, with ovate toothed leaves, and spike-like leafy racemes of small 

 flowers, the pale blue corolla only 2" long, and pod inflated. Common in 

 fields : a noted quack medicine. 



L. syphilltica, GREAT BLUE L. Slightly hairy, l-3 high, leafy, with 

 ovate-oblong irregularly toothed leaves, dense leafy raceme, hairy calyx, and 

 corolla almost 1' long. 11 



L. pub^rula, chiefly S. W. ; minutely soft-downy, with blunter and 

 finer-toothed leaves, and rather 1-sided spike of smaller deeper-blue flowers. 2/ 



L. spic&ta, in sandy or gravelly damp or dry soil ; smoothish, with long 

 and wand-like stems l-3 high, obovate lowest leaves, narrow and small 

 upper ones, and close naked raceme of very small flowers. ^ 



L. Kalmii, of wet banks N. ; smooth, with branching stems 5' - 12' high, 

 obovate root-leaves, few and lanceolate or linear stem-leaves, a loose raceme 

 of slender-pedicelled and small but handsome bright-blue flowers, and obovate 

 pods. 11 



63. CAMPANULACE.2E, CAMPANULA FAMILY. 



Herbs with milky juice, alternate leaves, and scattered flowers, 

 with regular 5-lobed (blue or white) corolla and 5 stamens borne 

 on the summit of the calyx-tube which is adherent to the 2-5- 

 celled many-seeded ovary and pod ; style 1 ; stigmas as many as 

 the cells of the ovary. Stamens separate in all our plants of the 

 order, which by this and by the regular corolla (valvate in the bud) 

 are distinguished from the preceding. 



1. SPECULARIA. Corolla nearly wheel-shaped. Stigmas 3. Pod linear or nar- 



row oblong, opening by a lateral valve or short cleft into each cell. Other- 

 wise as in the next. 



2. CAMPANULA. Corolla bell-shaped, or of various shapes. Stigmas and cells 



of the short pod 3-5, each cell of the latter opening by a lateral valve or 

 short cleft. 



3. PLATYCODON. Corolla very broadly open from a narrow base, balloon-shaped 



in the bud. Pod top-shaped, 5-celled, opening at the top into 3 - 5-valves. 



1. SPECULARIA, VENUS'S LOOKING-GLASS. (Old Latin name 

 of European species is Speculum Veneris.) El. all summer. 



S. Speculum, GARDEN V., cult, from Eu. for ornament, is a low herb, 

 with oblong leaves, pretty blue flowers terminating the spreading branches, and 

 linear triangular pod. 



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