POPULAR FLORA. 
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51. LOBELIA FAMILY. Order LOBELIACEiE. 
Herbs with milky (acrid-poisonous) juice, alternate leaves, and scattered flowers, the 
stamens free from the peculiarly irregular corolla, which is split down on one side (Fig. 
184), and borne with it on the many-seeded ovary. We have only one genus, viz.: — 
Lobelia. Lobelia. 
Calyx with its short tube adherent to the 2-celled ovary, and with 5 slender teeth or lobes. Corolla 
unequally 5-lobed, and split down to the bottom on the upper side! Stamens 5, united into a tube both 
by their filaments and their anthers! Style one. Pod opening at the top. The following are the 
commonest wild species (all but Nos. 3 and 4 in low grounds); fl. summer and fall. 
1. Cardinal-flower L. Tall, smooth, with a raceme of large, brilliant red flowers. L. cardinalis. 
2. Great Blue L. Rather hairy, 1° or 2° high; leaves lance-oblong; flowers 1' long, crowded in a 
leafy raceme, light blue. L. syphilitica. 
3. Spiked L. Stem simple, straight, and slender, 1° to 3° high, including the long and naked spike¬ 
like raceme of small pale-blue flowers; lowest leaves obovate or oblong. L. spicata. 
4. Indian-Tobacco L. Branching, 8' to 18' high; leaves ovate-oblong; flowers very small, in irregular 
leafy racemes, pale blue; pods inflated. Open places. L. inflata. 
52. CAMPANULA FAMILY. Order CAMPANULACEiE. 
Like the last family in all general respects, except that the 
showy corolla is regular, 5-lobed; the 5 stamens separate; the 
stigmas and the cells of the pod 3 'or 5. Juice milky. The 
principal genus is 
Campanula or Bellflower. Campanula. 
So called from its generally campanulate or bell-shaped corolla (Fig. 
179 and 412). The following are the commonest species. 
* Wild species: stigmas and cells of the pods 3. 
1. Harebell C. A slender and very pretty plant, growing on shaded 
cliffs, 5' to 12' high; root-leaves round or heart-shaped, long-stalked, 
toothed; stem-leaves very narrow, entire ; flowers nodding, the 
bright blue corolla bell-shaped, or more long. C. rotundifolia. 
2. Marsh C. A slender plant growing among grass, in wet places, with 
rough-angled stem and lance-shaped leaves ; a few small pale 
flowers on diverging peduncles. C. aparinoides. 
3. Tall C. Stem tall, leafy, ending in a leafy loose spike (1° or 2° 
long) of blue flowers; corolla wheel-shaped; style long and curved. 
Rich low ground. C. Americana. 
* * Garden species: stigmas and cells of the pod 5. 
4. Canterbury Bells. Hairy, with stout stems, very large blue (or white) flowers, and broad 
appendages of the calyx covering the pod. C. Medium. 
