. How plants grow [microform] : a simple introduction to structural botany : with a popular flora, or an arrangement and description of common plants, both wild and cultivated : illustrated by 500 wood engravings. Botany; Botanique. rorULAR FLORA. W 61. LOBELIA FAMILY. Onlcr LOBELIACEiE. Ilorbs with milky (acrid-jwisonouH) juico, altornato leaves, and scattered flowcni, tlio Btamcns free from tho peculiarly irregular corolla, which is «plit down '>n one side (Fig. 184), and borne with it on tho many-seeded ovary. Wo havo only ono genus, viz.: — Lobelia* Lobelia. Ciilyx with its short tube a
. How plants grow [microform] : a simple introduction to structural botany : with a popular flora, or an arrangement and description of common plants, both wild and cultivated : illustrated by 500 wood engravings. Botany; Botanique. rorULAR FLORA. W 61. LOBELIA FAMILY. Onlcr LOBELIACEiE. Ilorbs with milky (acrid-jwisonouH) juico, altornato leaves, and scattered flowcni, tlio Btamcns free from tho peculiarly irregular corolla, which is «plit down '>n one side (Fig. 184), and borne with it on tho many-seeded ovary. Wo havo only ono genus, viz.: — Lobelia* Lobelia. Ciilyx with its short tube adherent to tiio 2-cello(l ovnry, nnd with 6 nlender teeth or lobes. Corolla utiequuily 6-lubed, and split down to the bottom on the upper side! Stiimens 6, united into ii tube both by their filaments and their anthers! Style one. Pod opening at the top. Tho following are tho commonest wild species (all but Nos. 3 and 4 in low grounds); fl. summer and fall. 1. L. Tall, smooth, with a raceme of largo, brilliant red flowers. L. canUnitlit. 2. Cheat Blwk L. Rather hnlry, 1° or 2" high; leaves lance-oblong; flowers 1' long, crowded in a leafy raceme, light blue. L. typhiUiii'a. 8. Si'iKED L. Stem simple, straight, and slender, 1" to 8" high, including the long and naked spike- like raceme of small pale-bluo flowers; lowest leaves obovnie or oblong. L. $jncata. 4. IxniAN-TonAcco L. Branching, 8'to 18'hipli; leaves ovate-oblong; flowers very small, in Irregular leufy racemes, pale blue; pods inflated. Open places. L. injlala. 52. CAMPANULA FAMILY. Order CAMPANULACEiE. Like the last family in all general respects, except that tho filiowy corolla is regular, 5-lobed; the 5 stamens separate; the stigmas and tho cells of tho pod 3 or 5. Juice milky. Tho principal genua ia 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: stigma
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