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oblong head, which lengthens with maturity. Found only in Sussex 

 — Fl. May to July. Perennial. 



3. Jasione (Sheep's Scabious) 



I, /, montana (Sheep's Scabious, Sheep's-bit).— 

 The only British species. Growing about a foot 

 high, a.nd having a strong resemblance to a Scabious, 

 or one of the Composita;, from the former of which, 

 however, it may be distinguished by its united 

 anthers ; from the latter by its having a 2-cclled 

 capsule. The leaves are oblong, blunt, and hairy ; 

 the flowers, which are blue, grow in terminal heads, 

 with a leafy involucre at the base. The whole plant 

 when bruised has a strong and disagreeable smell. 

 Dry heathy places ; common. — Fl. July, August. 

 Biennial. 



4. Lobelia {Lobelia) 



1. L. Dortmanna (Water Lobelia). — An aquatic 

 plant, often forming a matted bed at the bottom of 

 the water, and sending above the surface slender, 

 almost leafless stems, having a terminal raceme of 

 distant, hght blue, drooping flowers. Not uncommon 

 in lakes in Scotland and Western England. — 

 Fl. July, August. Perennial. 



2. L. urens (Acrid Lobelia). — Erect, 12-18 inches high, with a 

 roughish, leafy stem, which contains a milky, acrid juice, and bears 

 a bracteate raceme of erect purple fl.owers. ' Very rare ; Axminster, 

 Devon. — Fl. August, September. Perennial. 



Jasione 



Montana 



(Sheep's 



Scabious, 



Sheep' s-bit) 



Natural Order XL VI 

 VACCINIACE/E. — The Cranberry Tribe 



Calyx growing from the ovary, of 4-6 lobes, which are sometimes 

 so shallow as to be scarcely perceptible ; corolla of one petal, with 

 as many lobes as the calyx ; stamens not imited, twice as many as 

 the lobes of the corolla, inserted into the disk of the ovary ; anthers 

 opening by 2 pores, and often furnished with 2 bristles ; ovary 

 with a flat disk, 4 to lo-celled ; cells 1 or many-seeded ; style 

 and stigma simjile ; fruit a berry crowned by tlie remains of the 

 calyx, juicy, containing many small seeds. Small shrubby plants, 

 with undivided, alternate leaves, inhabiting temperate regions, 

 especially mountainous and marshy districts. By some botanists 

 they are placed in the same order as the Heaths, from which they 

 differ chiefly in having the ovary beneath the calyx. The leaves 



