LOBELIA glandulosa. 
Glandular Lobelia. 
SYNGENESIA MONOGAMIA. 
Nat. ord. LoBELIACE=. (LOBELIAD, Natural System of Botany, 
p. 692. ined.) 
LOBELIA. L. 
Section II. RAPUNTIUM. 
$ 2. Only the lower anthers bearded at the point, or terminated by 
bristles. —— Corolla blue or white, in the last species of the division lilac or 
rose-coloured, or even red.—Alph. DC. Prodr. 7. 376. 
* The re-entering angles of the calyx not covered by reflexed plates. 
L. glandulosa; caule erecto subpiloso subramoso, foliis lanceolatis glandu- 
loso-serrulatis subcarnosis puberulis glabrisve, floribus spicato-racemosis, 
bracteis ovato-acutis grossé glanduloso-serratis pedicello longioribus, 
bracteolis linearibus glanduliferis duabus basi pedicellorum suboppositis, 
tubo calycis hispido, lobis lineari-acuminatis margine revolutis integris 
v. dentatis corolla ad faucem pilosà paulö brevioribus.—Alph. DC. l. c. 
p. 378. 
L. glandulosa, Walter's Flora of Carolina, p. 218. Elliotťs Sketch, 1. 265. 
L. crassiuscula, Michaux Fl. Bor. Am. 2. 152. Nuttall Gen. Am. 2. p. 76. 
Rapuntium glandulosum, Presl. Prodr. p. 21. 
This isa hardy herbaceous plant, of the easiest cultivation, 
growing freely in any kind of garden soil, and not unlike the 
well-known L. siphilitica, but much less showy. It attains the 
height of two and a half feet, flowers in September and 
October, and, like,so many of its race, prefers a moist situation 
to a dry one. Elliot says that is grows in damp Pine barrens. 
It has been raised in the Garden of the Horticultural 
Society, from seeds collected in North Carolina, and presented 
by Wm. Dimes, Esq., F.H.S. 
The stem is between three and four feet high, quite undi- 
vided, angular and covered with short hairs. The leaves are 
sessile, oval-lanceolate; near the base of the stem narrowed 
into a short winged stalk, irregularly toothed, and bordered 
