138 LOBELIACE.E. [Jasione. 



3. C. Trachelium, Linn. Nettle-leaved Bell-flower. Stem an- 

 gular ; leaves lanceolate, partly heart-shaped, sharply serrated, 

 bristly as well as the calyx: stalks axillary, with few flowers. 

 Br. FL I. p. 102. E. Fl. v. i. p. 292. E. Bot. t. 12. 



Found in a lane between Glasnevin and Finglass, above thirty years 

 ago, by the late Doctor Brinkley, Bishop of Cloyne, according 

 to Mr. Templeton, who also found it about the same time, by the 

 river-side below Innistiogue, County of Kilkenny. Fl. July, Aug. 1 

 Leaves much like those of the common Nettle, whence the name. 



4. C. hederacea, Linn. Ivy-leaved Bell- flower. Stem flaccid, 

 much branched, procumbent; leaves stalked, smooth, heart- 

 shaped, with angular lobes. Br. FL 1. p. 102. E. FL v. \.p. 

 293. E. Bot. t. 73. 



Moist shady banks and open situations, on a light sandy or gravelly 

 soil. On the Sugar-loaf Mountain, County of Wicklow ; Doctor 

 Stokes and Mr. John Nuttall. Near Bandon, County of Cork, and 

 in Glencree, between Enniskerry and Lough Bray near the Copse- 

 wood, abundant. Fl. July, Aug. %. A most graceful little plant, 

 growing in lax tufts. Peduncles long, slender, mostly terminal. 

 Flowers half an inch or more in length, at first drooping, then erect ; 

 pale purplish-blue. 



ORD. 38. LOBELIACE./E. Lindl. Lobelia Family. 



Calyx superior, 5-lobed, or entire. Corolla monopetalous, 

 irregular, inserted in the calyx, 5-lobed, or deeply 5-cleft. Sta- 

 mens 5, inserted into the calyx alternately with the lobes of the 

 corolla ; anthers cohering ; pollen oval. Ovarium inferior, with 

 from one to three cells ; ovula very numerous, attached either to 

 the axis or the lining ; style simple ; stigma surrounded by a 

 cup-like fringe. Fruit capsular, 1 or more-celled, many- 

 seeded, dehiscing at the apex. Seeds attached either to the 

 lining or the axis of the pericarpium ; embryo straight, in the 

 axis of fleshy albumen ; radicle pointing to the hilum. Her- 

 baceous plants or shrubs. Leaves alternate, without stipulce. 

 Flowers axillary or terminal. 



1. JASIONE. Linn. Sheep's-bit. 



Calyx 5-cleft. Corolla rotate, with a very short tube, and five 

 long linear segments. Stigma bifid. Capsule 2-celled. Flowers 

 collected within a many-leaved involucre. Name, supposed 

 from iov, a violet, from the blue colour of the flowers, applied 

 by Pliny to some esculent plant. Pentandria. Mouogynia. 

 1. J. montana, Linn. Annual Sheep's-bit or Sheep's Scabious. 



Leaves linear, waved, hispid; peduncles solitary, elongated. 



Br. Fl. 1. p. 99. E. FL v. \. p. 296. E. Bot. t. 882. 



