272 C&mpanulacea Specnlaria. 



Ph. campanuloldes has racemose blue flowers. Jaswne differs 

 from the foregoing in having connate anthers. J. perennis 

 and J. montana, Sheep's-bit, are dwarf blue-flowered plants of 

 no great beauty, the latter being indigenous. 



Symphidndra pendula is separated from Campanula on 

 account of the broad hairy filaments and connate anthers. 

 It is an herbaceous plant about 18 inches high with large 

 drooping creamy white flowers. Caucasus. 



2. SPECULARIA. 



A small genus of annual plants sometimes united with 

 Campanula ; but the corolla is rotate, filaments flat and hairy, 

 and the capsule fusiform or prismatic. Speculum is the Latin 

 equivalent of looking-glass, and is employed to designate 

 these herbs on account of their bright corollas. S. hybrida is 

 a small cornfield weed, bearing inconspicuous lilac-blue flowers. 



S. speculum, syn. Prismatocdrpus. Venus's Looking-glass. 

 A slender branching plant about 6 or 8 inches high with linear 

 leaves and reddish-violet, lilac, or white flowers about an inch 

 in diameter. The calyx-lobes are linear, and exceed the corolla 

 in length. A hardy little annual producing its pretty flowers 

 in great profusion. It is a native of the South of Europe. 



3. LOBELIA (including Tupa). 



Annual or perennial herbs with alternate leaves and raee- 

 mose flowers. Corolla irregular, slit down the upper or pos- 

 terior side; lobes unequal, the 2 upper erect or recurved, the 3 

 lower straight or recurved. Stamens epipetalous ; anthers con- 

 nate, all or only two of them bearded. Capsule half-superior, 

 and opening through the cells. There are 200 species of this 

 genus, occurring in temperate and tropical regions, but chiefly 

 in the latter. There are two native species, both very rare : 

 L. Dortmanna, an aquatic with cylindrical bifistular leaves 

 and racemose spikes of blue flowers ; L. wrens is a less showy 

 plant, found on heaths near Axminster. This genus was named 

 in honour of Lobel, a physician and botanist of the time of 

 James I. 



1. L. Erlnus (fig. 157). This and its varieties are usually 

 treated as annuals, though it is said to be perennial. There 

 are many handsome varieties much in request for edging beds, 

 borders, etc. Some of the varieties in cultivation are the 

 offspring of L. bicolor and L. campanulata, or, perhaps, crosses 



