ENGLISH BOTANY. 



ORDER XLIL— CAMPANULACE^l. 



IIerbs or undershrubs (frequently having milky juice), with 

 alternate entire or toothed leaves, without stipules, rarely with 

 the leaves all radical. Flowers perfect, regular or irregular, 

 usually blue, purple, or white, generally separate, more rarely 

 in involucrate anthodes, with the leaves of the involucre resem- 

 bling the sepals of a calyx. Calyx-tube adhering to the ovary ; 

 limb free, of 5 segments, regular or irregular, persistent or de- 

 ciduous, not forming a pappus. Corolla monopetalous, inserted 

 into the throat of the calyx ; limb 5-cleft or -toothed, regular or 

 irregular — in the latter case 2-lipped or 1-lipped. Stamens 5, 

 inserted at the base of the corolla ; filaments not adhering to 

 the corolla, and alternate with its lobes, free or united into a 

 tube ; anthers 2-celled, distinct or cohering by their margins or 

 bases in a ring round the style, opening longitudinally. Ovary 

 inferior, 2- or 3-, more rarely 5-cclled ; style 1, generally cleft at 

 the apex into as many stigmatiferous portions as there are cells 

 in the ovary ; ovules numerous or several, very rarely 1 in each 

 cell of the ovary. Fruit a capsule, opening by clefts or pores 

 below or between the calyx-teeth, or by valves above the calyx- 

 limb, or a berry or drupe and indebiscent. Seeds albuminous ; 

 embryo straight, in the midst of fleshy albumen. 



Sub-Order I.— LOBELIFLE. 



Odd segment of the calyx anterior, directed towards the stem. 

 Corolla irregular, frequently more or less 2-lipped. Anthers 

 cohering, usually dissimilar ; pollen ovoid. Style glabrous, with 

 a bilobed or entire stigma surrounded by hairs. 



GEN US I— L O B E L I A. Linn. 



Calyx 5-cleft. Corolla tubular, with the tubo split above ; 

 limb 2-lipped, with the upper lip with 2 erect or recurved seg- 

 ments ; the lower one 3-lobed, larger and spreading. Anthers 



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