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falling srort of the sepals. Plant sub-glabrous, or more or less 
puberulent. 
Acrid Lobelia. 
French, Lobelie Brulante. 
The blue flowers of this pretty little plant remind us of the well-known foreign 
little species Lobelia S])eciosa, which forms so pretty a bordering to our flower-beds in 
the height of summer, which, however, is not hardy. Our native species is acrid and 
pungent if taken into the mouth, especially near the root. It is possible that it may 
possess some medicinal properties as well as its foreign relations. 
Sub-Order II.— CAMPANULINE^. 
Odd segment of the calyx posterior, turned away from the stem. 
Corolla regular. Anthers all alike, generally free ; pollen spherical. 
Style hairy. 
GENUS II— J A S I O N E. Linn. 
Calyx-limb 5-partite. Corolla cylindrical and straight in bud, 
divided almost to the base into 5 linear divisions, which are 
recurved when the flower expands. Stamens 5 ; anthers cohering 
by their bases. Style filiform, hairy ; stigma 2-lobed, or nearly 
entire. Capsule sub-globular, 2-celled, opening at the summit by 
2 very short valves. 
Herbs, with radical leaves often in rosettes ; stem-leaves 
alternate, narrow, entire or sinuated, and often undulated at the 
margins. Flowers small, blue or lilac, in involucrate heads, resem- 
bling the anthodes of the Composite. Plant with the aspect of a 
Scabious. 
The name of this genus of plants is said to come from lao-wpr] (iasone), a name 
given by Theophrastus to a wild potherb now unknown. 
SPECIES I.— J A SI ONE MONTANA. Linn. 
Plate DCCCLXIII. 
Mekh. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XIX. Tab. MDLXXVIII. Fig. 1. 
Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 50. 
Annual or biennial, without stolons. Stem simple or branched. 
Radical leaves in a rosette, narrowly oblanceolate ; stem-leaves 
sessile, oblong ; all obtuse, undulated and crenate or repand at the 
margins, sparingly clothed and ciliated with short white bristly 
hairs. Peduncles glabrous, leafless for a considerable distance 
beneath the anthodes. Anthodes hemispherical. Bracts of the 
