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» Exotic, cultioated for ornament. 

 Ii. Srlnus, from Cape of Good Hope, the common low and spreading little 

 Lobelia of conservatories and summer gardens, with abundant small flowers 

 azure-blue, usually white in the throat, and narrow toothed upper leaves ; ® or 

 continued by cuttings. 



L. laxiflbra, from Mexico, cultivated in conservatories under the name of 

 SiPHOCiMPTLns EfcoLOR ; tall, with curved and large red and yellow flowers, 

 hanging on long slender peduncles from the axils of the oblong or lanceolate 

 toothed leaves. % ' 



* « 'Wifd species of the country, one or two of them sometimes cultivated for orna- 

 ment ; fl. summer : growing in wet ur low grounds, except two of them. 

 H- Corolla deep red : stems tall and simple. 



Ii. cardiu&lis, Cakdinai/-Floweh, with lance-oblong leaves and erect 

 raceme of large and showy flowers, which are very rarely rose-colored or even 

 white. ® ^ • " 



*- ■*- Flowers blue or with some white in the throat. 



L. infldita, Indiaw, Tobacco. Somewhat hairy, 9' -18' high, much 

 branched, witli ovate toothed leaves, and spike-like leafy racemes of small 

 flowers, the pale blue corolla only 2" long, and pod inflated. (J) Common in 

 fields : a noted quack medicine. 



L. syphilitica, Great Blue L. Slightly hairy, l°-3° high, leafy, with 

 ovate-oblong irregularly toothed leaves, dense 16afy raceme, hairy calyx, and 

 corolla almost 1' long. 21 



L. puberula, chiefly S. & W. ; minutely soft-downy, with blunter and 

 finer-toothed leaves, and rather 1-sided spike of smaller deeper-blue flowers, "i). 



L. spic&ta, in sandy or gravelly damp or dry soil ; smoothish, with long 

 and wand-like stems l°-3° high, obovate lowest leaves, narrow and small 

 upper ones, and close naked raceme of very small flowers. ® y. 



ij. K^liuii, of wet banks N. ; smooth", with branching stems 5'- 12' high, 

 obovate root-leaves, few and lanceolate or linear stem-leaves, a loose raceme 

 of slender-pedicelled and small but handsome bright-blue flowers, and obovate 

 pods. ® % 



63. CAMPANULACE^, CAMPANULA FAMILY. 



Herbs with milky juice, alternate leaves, and scattered flowers, 

 with regular 5-lobed (blue or white) corolla and 5 stamens borne 

 on tlie summit of the calyx-tube which is adherent to the 2-5- 

 celled many-seeded ovary and pod ; style 1 ; stigmas as many as 

 the cells of the ovary. Stamens separate in all our plants of the 

 order, which by *his and by the regular corolla (valvate in the bud) 

 are distinguished from the preceding. 



1. SPECULARIA. Corolla nearly wheel-shaped. Stigmas 3. Pod linear or nar- 



row oblong, opening by a lateral valve or short cleft into each cell. Other- 

 wise as in the next. . , 



2. CAMPANULA. Corolla beU-shaped, or of various shapes. Stigmas and cells 



of the short pod 3-5, each cell of the latter opening by a lateral valvo or 

 short cleft. 



3. PLATYCODON. Corolla very broadly open from a narrow base, balloon-shaped 



in the bud. Pod top-sbape'd, S-celled, opening at the top into S-6-valves. 



1. SPECULAEIA, VENUS'S LOOKING-GLASS. (Old Latin. name 



of European species is Speculum Veneris.) H. all summer. ® 

 . S. Speculum, Garden V., cult, from Eu. for ornament, is a low herb, 

 with oblong leaves, pretty blue flowers terminating the spreading branches, and: 

 linear triangular pod. 



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