82 NATIVE FLOWERS OF VICTORIA. 
only two Victorian representatives of the latter order, 
and they are both alpine plants, growing upon the 
top of the mountains in the eastern districts. 
The common bluebell, Wahlenbergia gracilis, is 
a cousin of the heaths. It is a very variable plant, 
having small flowers in some eases, and very large 
flowers in others, sometimes reaching to a diameter 
of one and a half inches. The plant too is variable ; 
sometimes it dies annually, reproducing itself again 
from seed, and at other times it forms a perennial 
root crown, lasting for some years. It is usually on 
granitic and volcanic soils that the flowers assume the 
purest of blue colours, and produce the greatest pro- 
fusion of blossoms. There is no reason why this flower 
should not become as popular as any of our dwarf 
blue garden flowers. 
The well known Lobelia belongs to the beU-flower 
or Campanula order, and its glorious blue colour 
makes it a general favourite through three seasons 
of the year. It is an annual plant; that is, in one 
year it grows from seed, produces its crop of flowers, 
ripens its seed and then dies. We have in East Gipps- 
land another form. Lobelia gibbosa, which is as 
equally beautiful as our garden one. It is a fine 
blue, and the flowers themselves are much larger. 
The habit of the plant is an erect one, the stems 
averaging from nine inches to a foot in height. A 
clump or border of this plant would make an orna- 
ment in any garden. 
The trigger plant, Stylidium graminifolium, is a 
near relation of the bell-flowers. This plant has 
received its name from the trigger-like form of the 
