44 
THE LADIES’ FLOWER-GARDEN 
bell-shaped, Campanula signifying a little bell. The plants belonging to this order are nearly allied to Compo- 
sitffi, many genera of which have also a milky juice ; but the Campauulacece are distinguished by their anthers 
being free ; and their fruit many-seeded. They have also always a number of short stiff hairs on the style, to 
collect the pollen from the anthers, which burst before the stigma is ready to receive it, and even while the flower 
is yet in the bud. Hairs of a similar nature are found in some few of the Composite, but then the anthers are 
always combined into a tube. The milky juice of the Campanulacem is also rather acrid, and the leaves of the 
plants are not fleshy ; whereas when the Composite have milky juice it has stupefying qualities, and the leaves 
which contain it are succulent. None of the Campanulacem are of much use ; though some few, such as the 
Rampion, are occasionally eaten. The flowers of all, however, are highly ornamental, and they are well 
deserving of cultivation in every garden. By far the greater part of the species are natives of the temperate 
regions of Asia, Europe, and North America ; though some are natives of the Cape of Good Hope, and a few 
are found within the tropics. 
GENUS I. 
JASIONE, Lin. SHEEP SCABIOUS. 
Lin. Si/si. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Generic Chaeacter. — Calyx five-cleft. Corolla deeply five-parted ; | disposed in ten rows ; stigmas two, short. Capsule two-celled, sphe- 
segments linear, lanceolate. Stamens five, with slender filaments, and i roid or ovoid, dehiscing by a broad hole at top, with very short valves, 
with the anthers combined into a tube at the base ; pollen blue or j Seeds small, ovoid, shining.— G. Don. 
purplish. Style pilose from the middle to the apex; the pili, or hair. 
Description, &c. — The genus Jasione seems rather to belong to Composite than to Campanulacem, as its 
flowers are in heads and its anthers are united. There is, however, the important difference that the seed- 
vessels are many-seeded, whereas those of the Compositae have only one seed in each, which adheres to its 
covering, and is of the kind called an achenium. The flower-heads of the Jasione have also distinct bracts, 
instead of being furnished with an involucre of many bracts grown together ; and the style is covered with hairs 
to collect the pollen from the anthers, as in the other genera of the order. The name of Jasione was used by 
Theophrastus, but its meaning is not known. 
1 .— JASIONE PERENNIS, Lam. THE PERENNIAL SHEEP SCABIOUS. 
Synonymks. — J. montana var. Willi. J- levis, Lam. i Specific Character. — Stems erect, simple. Leaves rather hairy; 
Engravings. — Bot. Reg. t. 505 ; Bot. Mag. t. 2198 ; Bot. Cab. t. radical ones obovate ; cauline ones oblong-linear, flat ; peduncles naked ; 
923 ; and our fig. 1, in PI. 60. j bracts, pilose inside. 
Description, &c. — A very showy handsome plant, with much larger heads of flowers than the common 
Sheep Scabious, and the flower of a deeper blue. The leaves are strictly linear, that is, they are neither tapering 
at the points, nor waved nor curled at the edge. Tlie species is a native of the South of France, whence it was 
introduced in 1787- It should be grown in a warm dry border, open to the south. It is a most abundant 
flowerer, and the flowers last nearly all the summer. 
There are two or three other perennial species ; but they appear very closely to resemble the above. The . 
common English Sheep Scabious is an annual. 
