BELLFLOWER FAMILY 



calyx to the tip of the lower lip it is about an inch and 

 a quarter. The flower tube is somewhat swollen and 

 often striped with white on the under side, cleft above 

 from the calyx through the upper lip, dividing its 



Blue Lobelia. Lobilia syphilitica 



lobes which are pointed and recurved. The lower hp 

 is three-lobed and the lobes are long, heart-shaped, 

 the middle one often white at the top. Through the 

 cleft of the corolla and looking out between the two 

 upper lobes are the anthers united into a bluish steel- 

 colored tube, tipped with a tiny tuft of white hairs. 

 Within is the long, green style, tipped with a two- 

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