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 Lobelia Kalmii. Kalm's Lobelia. 



Class and Order. 



Pentandria Monogynia. 



Generic Character. 



Cal. 5-fidus. Cor. 1-petala, irregularis. Antherts collar- 

 rentes. Caps, infera, 2-s. 3-locularis. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Lobelia Kalmii; tenuis, erecta, simpliciuscula, foliis radicali- 



bus spathulatis, caulinis Iinearibus tenuissime denticnlatis, 



floribus racemosis alternis remotis pedicellatis. Pi/rs/t 



Ft. amer. sept. 446. 

 Lobelia Kalmii, caule erecto, foliis lanceolato-Iinearibus ob- 



tusiusculis alternis integerrimis, racemo terminali. Sp. 



PL 1318. Walt. Carol, p. 218. Willd. Sp. PL 1. 939. 

 Lobelia Kalmii. Michaux FL amer. bor. 2. p. 153. Nuttatl 



Gen. PL amer. sept. 2. p. 76. 

 Rapuntium canadense pumilum, linariae folio. Tournef. Inst. 



164. 



Descr. u Stem a foot and half high, angled, smooth, fta 

 dical leaves indistinctly crenate, hairy on both sides : Caulinc 

 alternate, bluntish, smaller towards the upper part of the stem, 

 smooth on both sides with minute yellow teeth. Peduncles 

 hairy, one-flowered, arising from the axillae of the upper leaves, 

 having two little bracteae above their middle." 



For the drawing and description of this plant, of which we 

 believe a figure is now for the first time published, we are 

 indebted to Dr. Robert Graham, Professor of Botany in the 

 university of Edinburgh. It flowered in the Royal Botanic 

 garden there in August 1820. 



It is marked as an annual in the species Plantarum of 

 Linnaeus and Willdenow; but this is probably a mistake 



as 



