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ENGLISH BOTANY. 
ORDER XLII.— C AMPANULACEiE. 
Herbs or undershrubs (frequently having milky juice), with 
alternate entire or toothed leaves, without stipules, rarely with 
the leaves all radical. Flowers perfect, regular or irregular, 
usually blue, purple, or white, generally separate, more rarely 
in involucrate anthodes, with the leaves of the involucre resem- 
bling the sepals of a calyx. Calyx-tube adhering to the ovary ; 
limb free, of 5 segments, regular or irregular, persistent or de- 
ciduous, not forming a pappus. Corolla monopetalous, inserted 
into the throat of the calyx ; limb 5-cleft or -toothed, regular or 
irregular — in the latter case 2-lipped or 1-lipped. Stamens 5, 
inserted at the base of the corolla ; filaments not adhering to 
the corolla, and alternate with its lobes, free or united into a 
tube ; anthers 2-celled, distinct or cohering by their margins or 
bases in a ring round the style, opening longitudinally. Ovary 
inferior, 2- or 3-, more rarely 5-celled ; style 1, generally cleft at 
the apex into as many stigmatiferous portions as there are cells 
in the ovary ; ovules numerous or several, very rarely 1 in each 
cell of the ovary. Fruit a capsule, opening by clefts or pores 
below or between the calyx-teeth, or by valves above the calyx- 
limb, or a berry or drupe and indehiscent. Seeds albuminous; 
embryo straight, in the midst of fleshy albumen. 
Sub-Order I.— LOBELIE^E. 
Odd segment of the calyx anterior, directed towards the stem. 
Corolla irregular, frequently more or less 2-lipped. Anthers 
cohering, usually dissimilar ; pollen ovoid. Style glabrous, with 
a bilobed or entire stigma surrounded by hairs. 
GENUS L—L O B E L I A. Linn. 
Calyx 5-clcft. Corolla tubular, with the tube split above ; 
limb 2-lipped, with the upper lip with 2 erect or recurved seg- 
ments ; the lower one 3-lobed, larger and spreading. Anthers 
VOL. VI. B 
