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Lobelia Erinus. Ascending Lobelia. 

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Clqfs and Order. 



PeNTANDRIaMoNOGYNIA,0//w SyNGENESIA MoNOGAMIA. 



Generic Charafter. 



CaL 5-fidus. Cor. l-petala, irregularis. Anthera cohaerentes. 

 Cap/, infera 2- feu 3-Iocularis. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



LOBELIA Erinus ; caulibus filiformibus tortuofo-ere&is, 

 foliis obovatis incifo-dentatis glabris petiolatis, 

 floribus racemofis terminalibus, capfulis bilocu- 

 laribus. 



LOBELIA Erinus ; foliis lanceolatis ferratis glabris, caule 

 flexuofo erefro, pedunculis axillaribus folio lon- 

 gioribus. Thunb. Prod. 40. ? 



LOBELIA Erinus. Syjl. Vegetab. 802. 1 Willd. Sp. Pi. u 

 p. 948. t 



There is fo much difficulty in determining many fpecies of 

 Lobelia, that it is not without hefitation that we give this 

 plant, as the Lobelia Erinus ; it feems probable indeed that 

 Linn^us himfelf took up different plants, under this name. 

 At firfl fight there appears to be a great fimilarity between the 

 prefent plant and that figured at No. 514 of this work, but a 

 nearer examination fhews a fufficient difference ; the flowers 

 hardly differ, except that in the Erinus the flower fegments arc 

 ™ore obtufe and the colour is more brilliant ; the ftalks, 

 though weaker, affect a more upright growth and feem cal- 

 culated to rife up among grafs ; the whole plant is fmooth, 

 whereas the other is covered in every part with ftiffifh hairs ; 

 the root is perennial, as indeed it is in birolor, though faid 

 by us, erroneoufly, to be annual ; the capfules of both arc 

 two-celled, in which refpeft our plant does not correfpond with 

 the defcription of Linnaeus. 



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