4 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



falling short of the sepals. Plant sub-glabrous, or more or less 

 puberulent. 



Acrid Lobelia. 



French, Lobelie Brulanle. 



The blue flowers of this pretty little plant remind us of the well-known foreign 

 little species Lobelia speciosa, which forms so pretty a bordering to our flower-beds in 

 the height of summer, which, however, is not hardy. Our native species is acrid and 

 pungent if taken into the mouth, especially near the root. It is possible that it may 

 possess some medicinal properties as well as its foreign relations. 



Sub-Order II.— CAMPANULINE/E. 



Odd segment of the calyx posterior, turned away from the stem. 

 Corolla regular. Anthers all alike, generally free ; pollen spherical. 

 Style bairy. 



GENUS II— J A S I O N E. Linn. 



Calyx-limb 5-partite. Corolla cylindrical and straight in bud, 

 divided almost to the base into 5 linear divisions, which are 

 recurved when the flower expands. Stamens 5 ; anthers cohering 

 by their bases. Style filiform, hairy ; stigma 2-lobed, or nearly 

 entire. Capsule sub-globular, 2-celled, opening at the summit by 

 2 very short valves. 



Herbs, with radical leaves often in rosettes ; stem-leaves 

 alternate, narrow, entire or sinuated, and often undulated at the 

 margins. Flowers small, blue or lilac, in involucrate heads, resem- 

 bling the anthodes of the Compositor. Plant with the aspect of a 

 Scabious. 



The name of this genus of plants is said to come from mawiti (iasone), a name 

 given by Theophrastns to a wild potherb now unknown. 



SPECIES I.— JASIONE MONTANA. Linn. 



Plate DCCCLXIII. 



Reich. Tc. PL Germ, et Helv. Vol. XIX. Tab. MDLXXVIII. Fig. 1. 

 Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 50. 



Annual or biennial, without stolons. Stem simple or branched. 

 Radical leaves in a rosette, narrowly oblanceolate ; stem-leaves 

 sessile, oblong ; all obtuse, undulated and crenate or repand at the 

 margins, sparingly clothed and ciliated with short white bristly 

 hairs. Peduncles glabrous, leafless for a considerable distance 

 beneath the anthodes. Anthodes hemispherical. Bracts of the 



