272 Campanulacce—Specularia. 
Ph. campaunuloides has racemose blue flowers. Jasione differs 
from the foregoing in having connate anthers. J. perénnis 
and J. montcéne, Sheep’s-bit, are dwart blue-flowered plants of 
no great beauty, the latter being indigenous. 
Symphiindra péwlile is separated from Campanula on 
account of the broad hairy filaments and connate anthers. 
It is an herbaccous plant about 18 inches high with large 
drooping creamy white flowers. Cancasus. 
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. Speculwm 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 llac-blue flowers. 
S. speculum, syn. Prismatocérpus. Venus’s Looking-glass.— 
Aslender 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 isa native of the South of Europe. 
3. LOBELIA (including Titpa). 
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. Dortmeanna, an aquatic with cylindrical bifistular leaves 
and racemose spikes of blue flowers; LZ. 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. Brinus (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, ete. Some of the varieties in cultivation are the 
offspring of L, bicolor and L. campanulata, or, perhaps, crosses 
