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LOBELIA SIPHILITIGA 
BLUE 
LOBE 
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Or, 
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CARDINAL-FLOV/ER 
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SYNONTMyL Lob 
Pha?in, Edinh 
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caiius, flore -dil 
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punculiis Am 
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casmleo., D. Dodart Memoir e^ 
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:ulus 
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Lobelia fipl' 
aj 
7' 
Mon^'lfon 
d:o lasvi, fo 
inci ts 
ianceolatis fe 
yialter Flora Carolin/ p 
ique acuminatis, fioribus cxTuleis. 
8 
Conf. Kalmii defcript 
K. Vet. Acad. Hand!, p. 2 84, and Bartrams Jppendi 
'ining 
ipttonsy virtues^ and ufes of fundry plants^ &'c. 
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Clafs 
Syngenefia 
Ord, Monog: 
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Gen, Plant, 
6. 
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Ef. Gen. Ch, CaL ,5-fidus. Corolla i-petala, irregularis. 
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Capfula 
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infera, 2 — f. 3~locularis, 
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If 
Bp. Ch. 
Caule eredo, folli^ ovato-lanceolatis fubferratis, calycum 
fmiibus reflexis. 
THE root is perennial, and furnifhed with many white fibres : the 
ftem is upright, ftrong, fimple, frnooth, and rifes upwards of two 
feet in height 
oval and 
the leaves placed towards the top of the ftem, are 
lance 
pointed 5 thofe_ at the bottom are elliptical, and obtufely 
fliaped ; they are both minutely ferrated, veined, fmooth 
an d 
witnout footftalks' : the flowers are numerous, large, blue, and grow 
m a long fpike, upon fliort peduncles : the corolla confifts of a long 
tnbe, which is nearly cylindrical, and divided at the limb into five 
pointed oval feements, of a rich blue colour; the calyx is compofed 
offi 
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ve halberd-fliaped leaves, which are fringed at the 
marsrm 
and 
refieded at each fide : the filaments are five, tapering, equal in length 
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to the tube of the corolla, and clofely conneded at the top by the 
anthefge : the germen is ihort and conical: the Ityle is of the length of 
the 
