BELL-FLOWER FAMILY 



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chambered, 2— 3-valved (Name from Matthias de Lobel, a 

 Flemish botanist of the sixteenth century, vho lived for many 

 years at Highgate.) 



1, L. Dortmdnna (Water Lobelia). — A submerged aquatic 

 plant, forming a matted base at the bottom of the water ; leaves 

 all radical, almost cylindrical, of 2 parallel tubes ; scape slender, 

 erect, cylindric, almost leafless, 



hollow, rising above the water ; 

 flowers distant, drooping, pale 

 lilac, bracteate. — Mountain 

 lakes with gravelly bottoms. — 

 Fl. July, August. Perennial. 



2. L. wens (Acrid Lobelia). 

 — Ste)u angular, leafy, with an 

 acrid, milky juice ; leaves obov- 

 ate, toothed ; flowers purple, 

 erect or spreading, with long 

 bracts. — A heath near Ax- 

 minster, Devon ; very rare. — 

 F"l. August, September. Peren- 

 nial. 



2. Jasione (Sheep's-bit). — 

 Herbs with both radical and 

 cauhne leaves ; flowers small, in 

 terminal heads, with an in- 

 volucre of many brads ; calyx 

 5-fid ; corolla rotate, deeply 

 divided into 5 linear lobes ; 

 5, united by their 

 capsule 2-chambered, 

 (Name of uncertain 



stamens 

 anthers 

 2-valved 

 origin.) 

 I. /. 

 Sheep's 



Lr.RKLIA DORTM.^N.VA (U'il/^r LobcUo). 



monldna (Sheep's-bit, 

 Scabious). — The only 

 British species, about a foot 

 high, and strongly resembling a 



Scabious or one of the Composita;, but differing from the former 

 in its united anthers, and from the lattei* in its 2-chambered 

 capsule. The leaves are oblong, blunt ancF hairy : the heads of 

 flowers lilac-blue. — Dry heathy places : common. The whole 

 plant, when bruised, has a strong and disagreeable smell. — Fl. 

 June — September, Perennial 



3, Wahlenbergla (Ivy-leaved Bell-flower;. — A slender 



