Lobelia. LOBELIACE.E. 7 



inferior oblong-turbinate capsule: seeds oblong-obovate, rugose-reticulated. Man. eel. 5. 

 284. Wet swamps, New Jersey, Delaware, and S. Carolina : fl. late summer. Corolla 

 about 4 lines long. Capsule 2 lines long. 



L. Kalmii, L. Biennial or perhaps perennial from small rosulato offsets, a span to a foot 

 or more high, often paniculately branching, glabrous and smooth or below slightly hairy : 

 radical and lowest cauline leaves oblanceolate or spatulate, and the upper linear, an inch 

 or two long : racemes loosely and mostly few-flowered, often leafy at base or panicled : 

 pedicels equalling or longer than the flowers, mostly 2-glandular or minutely bracteolate 

 above the middle: calyx-lobes subulate, a little longer than the broadly turbinate tube: 

 capsule shorter and blunter at base than in the preceding, or even roundish, wholly inferior : 

 seeds oblong, reticulated. Bot. Mag. t. 2238. Wet banks, Lower Canada and Hudson's 

 Bay to L. Winnipeg, and to S. New York and Penn., but rare southward. 



L. Nuttallii, Roem. & Schult. Annual, or at most biennial, very slender, a foot or two 

 high, simple or sparingly and loosely branched above: leaves an inch or less in length; the 

 radical ones oblong or oval ; the others from lanceolate to linear, denticulate-glandular : 

 racemes slender : pedicels mostly longer than the bract and shorter than the flower ; the 

 minute bractlets, if any, near the base : calyx-lobes subulate, considerably shorter than the 

 tube of the pale blue corolla: capsule short and broad, obtuse or rounded at base, half 

 superior : seeds obovate-oval, roughish, these as well as the flowers only half the size of 

 those of L. Canliyi. Torr. Fl. N. Y. i. 240. L. nmciUs, Nutt. Gen. ii. 77. L. Kalmii, var. 

 (/raci/is, Bart. Fl. i. t. 34. Moist pine barrens, New Jersey and Penn. to Georgia. Whole 

 corolla 3 or at most 4 lines long. To this belongs the Rapuntium minimum flore pallido 

 cwrutco ; Clayt., Gronov. Fl. Virg. ed. 2. 134. 



= = Leaves chiefly ovate or oblong and more or less serrate or toothed: root annual: stems 

 branching. 



a. Capsule not inflated, partly or sometimes mainly superior: pedicels of the pedunculate raceme 

 slender: leaves mostly petioled. 



L. Cliffortiana, L. Glabrous or slightly and minutely hairy, a foot or so high : leaves 

 ovate or slightly cordate, obtusely toothed or repand, petioled, or the upper lanceolate and 

 sessile : pedicels filiform, longer than the flowers : calyx-tube obconical ; the lobes subulate 

 and shorter than the tube of the corolla : capsule ovoid, obtuse, nearly the upper half free : 

 seeds oval, very smooth and shining. Hort. Cliff, t. 20, & Sp., excl. syn. Gronov. ; Michx. Fl. 

 ii. 152 ? (Therefore L. Micltauxii, Nutt. Gen.?) Occasionally met with in the S. Atlantic 

 States, in waste or cult, grounds : probably introduced from Trop. Amer. 



Var. Xalapensis differs in the fully two-thirds free and rather more oblong capsule 

 (which does not, as in L. micrantha, much exceed the calyx-lobes), and the stems are weaker 

 or diffuse. L. Xa/apensis, IIBK. Peninsula of Florida (Canby, E. Palmer, &c.) ; perhaps 

 introduced from W. Ind. and Mex. 



Var. brachypoda, a remarkable and distinct form, with cauline leaves from obovate- 

 spatulate to lanceolate, and pedicels (2 or at most 3 lines long) rather shorter than the 

 flower or the capsule, which is that of genuine L. Cliffortiana. L. Bcrlandieri, Torr. Mex. 

 Bound. 107, hardly of A.DC. S.W.Texas, Wright, Parry. Adjacent parts of Mexico, 

 Berlandier, &c. (No. 3177 of the latter may be L. Berlandieri, A.DC., but is from Mata- 

 moras, not Tampico : it has long filiform pedicels and seems to be a depauperate form of 

 the true L. Cliffortiana.} 



L. Feayana, Gray. Slender, a span high, diffusely branched from the base, glabrous 

 throughout: leaves small (a quarter to half inch long), repand-denticulate, roundish or 

 obovate, or the small uppermost spatulate or lanceolate and sessile: raceme loosely 4-10- 

 flowered : pedicels as long as the flower, twice or thrice the length of the subulate bract : 

 calyx-tube and capsule broadly obconical ; the latter two-thirds inferior, its free apex about 

 the length of the subulate calyx-lobes ; these only half the length of the tube of the bright 

 blue corolla : anthers glabrous (except the bearded tips of the shorter ones) : seeds oblong, 

 with a rough cellular coat. Proc. Am. Acad. xii. 60. E. & S. Florida, Dr. Feay, Dr. E. 

 Palmer, Mrs. Treat. Tube of the corolla under 2 lines long. Pedicels 2 to 4 lines long. 



b. Capsule inflated, wholly inferior, longer than the pedicels: leaves sessile. 



L. inflata, L. (INDIAN TOBACCO.) Pubescent, a foot or two high, brandling above, and 

 the spike-like but loose racemes paniculate : leaves ovate or oblong (an inch or two long), 

 obtusely toothed, veiny ; the upper forming foliaceous bracts : uppermost bracts linear- 



