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BRITISH WILD FLOWERS. 
THE CLUSTERED BELL-FLOWER. (C. glomerata, Lin.) 
This is only found in dry, chalky pastures, where the soil is light enough for it to penetrate with its long 
fibrous roots. Its flowers are small, and they are produced in great abundance in the months of July and 
August. 
THE IVY-LEAVED BELL-FLOWER. (C. hederacea, Lin.) 
This is a most beautiful little plant, with very small pink flowers and delicate Ivy-shaped leaves. It grows 
in shady moist woods in several parts of England. It is a perennial, and flowers from June till August. 
CHAPTER XLV. 
THE LOBELIA FAMILY. (Lobeliace^e, Juss.) 
Character of the Order_ Calyx superior, five-lobed, or entire. 
Corolla monopetalous, irregular, inserted in the calyx, five-lobed, or 
deeply five-cleft. Stamens five, inserted into the calyx alternately with 
the lobes of the corolla ; anthers cohering ; pollen oval. Ovarium 
inferior, with from one to three cells ; ovula very numerous, attached 
either to the axis or the lining; style simple ; stigma surrounded by a 
Description, &c. —The order Lobeliacese contains 
cup-like fringe. Fruit capsular, one or more-celled, many-seeded, 
dehiscing at the apex. Seeds attached either to the lining or the axis 
of the pericarpium ; embryo straight, in the axis of fleshy albumen; 
radicle pointing to the hilum.—Herbaceous plants or shrubs. Leaves 
alternate, without stipulas. Flowers axillary or terminal. ( Lindley.) ; 
only two genera of British plants, viz. Jasione and 
Lobelia. They are both placed in the Linnsean class and order Pentandria Monogynia, from each flower having 
five stamens and a single style. 
GENUS I. 
THE SHEEP’S SCABIOUS. (Jasione, Lin.) 
Lin. Syst. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Generic Character. —Calyx five-cleft. Corolla rotate, with a | bifid. Capsule two-celled.—Flowers collected within a many-leaved 
very short tube, and five long, linear segments. Stamens five. Stigma I involucrum. (Lindley.) 
Description, &c. —The Sheep’s Scabious is a curious little plant, of which only one British species is known. 
The origin of the name of Jasione is not known; but some authors have derived it from ion, a violet, to which, 
however, the plant does not bear the slightest affinity. 
1.—-THE COMMON SHEEP’S-BIT, OR SHEEP’S SCABIOUS. (Jasione Montana, Lin.) 
Engravings. —Eng. Bot., t. 882 ; 2nd ed., t. 306 ; and our fig. 5, in PI. 41. 
Specific Character. —Leaves linear, waved, hispid ; peduncles solitary, elongated ; root annual. (Hooker.) 
Description, &c. —This is a very singular plant, though it appears an exceedingly insignificant one. The 
root, though the plant is only an annual, is quite woody; and the pretty blue flowers are succeeded by curious 
bladdery capsules, which remain on long after the seeds are fallen. The flow r ers which compose the head, though 
so very small, are each perfect of its kind, and have each a separate calyx. This circumstance, and the anthers 
being united at the base, made Linnaeus place the plant in his class Syngenesia, which is now confined to plants 
belonging to Composite. The Sheep’s Scabious is generally found in mountain pastures, and in dry, sandy 
fields, where its.heads of blue flowers are very conspicuous, in the absence of almost all other flowering plants. 
