1919] St. John,— Lobelia cardinalis : 217 
TWO COLOR FORMS OF LOBELIA CARDINALIS L. 
Hanorp Sr. JOHN. 
AN unusual rose-colored form of Lobelia cardinalis L. was recently 
sent from Jaffrey, New Hampshire, by my friend, Miss E. M. Parker. 
In the Gray Herbarium is a specimen of the same form from East 
Jaffrey, collected by E. L. Rand and B. L. Robinson in 1901. This 
rose-colored form, then, appears repeatedly, if not continuously in 
Jaffrey. In the first edition of his Manual, Dr. Gray says! of Lobelia 
cardinalis L., “rarely varying to rose-color! (Plymouth, Mr. Gilbert), 
and in the Gray Herbarium is an old sheet of this form, with imperfect 
data, that is presumably Mr. Gilbert's plant from Plymouth, or speci- 
mens raised from seed obtained from Mr. Gilbert. In 1871 this plant 
was mentioned in the Torrey Bulletin,? “flesh colored variety, 1868, 
Meriam.” Later, in 1912, Dr. Witmer Stone noted,’ “Near Green 
Creek I have found a plant with pale salmon pink flowers." Striking 
color-forms such as this attract the attention of any observer, so they 
may well be designated by a name. 
LOBELIA CARDINALIS L., f. rosea n. f., floribus roseis. Flowers rose- 
colored. New HAMPSHIRE: flowers roseate, mountain stream, East 
Jaffrey, Aug. 31, 1901, E. L. Rand & B. L. Robinson, no. 1,007 (type 
in Gray Herb.); brookside near East Jaffrey, Aug. 29, 1919, Miss 
E. M. Parker. 
Like most colored flowers, Lobelia cardinalis L. has an albino form. 
It is of occasional occurrence, and it has often been mentioned in the 
botanical journals and in the floras from the time of Muhlenberg * who 
indicates it by “Corolla ; 
alb. 
cocc. 
and by Pursh,5 “I have seen a white variety of it," down to the present 
time. "This should be known as: 
5. cardinalis," 
1 Gray, Asa: Man. Bot. N. U. S., ed. 1. 253 (1848). \ 
2 Bull. Torr. Bot. Club ii. 12 (1871). 
3 Stone, Witmer: Pl. of S. N. J. 715 (1911). 
1 Muhlenberg, Henry: Cat. Pl. Am. Sept. 22 (1813). 
5 Pursh, Frederick: Fl. Am. Sept. ii, 448 (1814). 
