. Botany for young people and common schools. How plants grow, a simple introduction to structural botany. With a popular flora, or an arrangement and description of common plants, both wild and cultivated. Botany. yy\ POPULAR FLORA. 167 51. LOBELIA FAMILY. Order LOBELIACEvE. 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. AYe have only one genus, viz.: — liObelia. Lobelia. Calyx with its short tube adherent to the 2-
. Botany for young people and common schools. How plants grow, a simple introduction to structural botany. With a popular flora, or an arrangement and description of common plants, both wild and cultivated. Botany. yy\ POPULAR FLORA. 167 51. LOBELIA FAMILY. Order LOBELIACEvE. 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. AYe have only one genus, viz.: — liObelia. 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); fi. summer and fall. 1. Caudinal-floweu L. Tall, smooth, with a raceme of large, brilliant red flowers. L. cardinalls. 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 IS'high: leaves ovate-oblong; flowers very small, in irregular leafy racemes, pale blue; pods inflated. Open places. L. injlata. 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 sti<niias and the cells of the pod 3 or 5. Juice milky. The principal genus is Campanula or EellfloAver. Campanula. So called from its generally campanulate or bell-shaped corolla (Fig. 179 and 412). The fallowing are the commonest species. * Wild species: stigmas and cells of the pods 3. 1. Hare
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