LoBELIA SENECIOIDES. BLUE PEDUNCULATED 
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Cal. 5-fidus. Cor. 1-petala, irregularis. Anthere cohx- 
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Descr. Asmallannual, with slender, nearly erect, z 
-_ downy stems. Leaves distantly placed, three to four inches 
long, scarcely pubescent, linear lanceolate, patent or re- 
curved, decurrent at the base, pinnatifid, with the segments 
slender, patent, alternately smaller. Pedwneles ax ary, 
solitary, single-flowered, three to sia inches long: glabrous. 
Corolla between hypocrateriform and infundibu iform ; with 
the tube an inch and a half or two inches long, narrowed 
below, pale yellowish, curved, cleft only a little way on the 
upper side ; the limb cut into five nearly equal, lanceolate, 
spreading, purplish-blue segments, pale at the back, yellow 
at the very base within. Stamens five> Filaments coher- 
ing, and united with the tube of the corolla near its middle: 
Anthers protruded, deep purple, connate, slightly hairy, 
with a small ligulate appendage on the upper. side at the 
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