86 Class V. Order I. 



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native of our meadows and brooksides. It rises to the height of 

 two feet and upward, with a simple, erect, leafy seem. Leaves 

 alternate, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, and serrate. Raceme 

 terminating the stem, consisting of large flowers, more or less 

 inclining to one side, of a bright scarlet colour. Corolla with a 

 long tube ending in five spreading segments, the three lower 

 ones widest. Tube of stamens curved in at the top. June, 

 July. Perennial. 



LOBELIA PALLIDA. Mulil. Pale Lobelia. 



Somewhat hairy ; stem erect, simple ; leaves ob- 

 long-spatulate, dentate ; flowers spiked. 



Syn. LOBELIA SPICATA. Lam. 



Stem upright, smooth, or a little hairy. Leaves spatulate, ob- 

 tuse at the end, tapering at base, slightly toothed or crenate, 

 pubescent at the edge and under side, sessile. Flowers in a long 

 terminal spike, on short peduncles, blue. Moist pastures and 

 road sides. July. Perennial. 



LOBELIA KALMII. L. Kalms Lobelia. 



Slender erect, simple ; radical leaves spatulate ; 



stem leaves linear, very slightly toothed ; flowers 

 alternate, remote, pedicelled. 



Found in the western parts of the state. More slender and 

 delicate than any of the others. Flowers blue. July. 



LOBELIA INFLATA. L. Indian Tobacco. 



Bigelow, Medical Botany, PI. xix. 



Branching and hairy. Leaves serrate, ovate ; 

 capsules turgid. 



This plant varies in height from six inches to two or three 

 feet. The small plants are nearly simple, the large ones much 

 branched. Root fibrous. Stem erect, in the full sized plant 

 much branched, angular, very hairy. Leaves scattered, sessile, 

 oval, serrate, veiny and hairy. Flowers in spikes or racemes, 

 pedunculated, each one in the axil of a small leaf. Segments of 

 the calyx linear, acute, standing on the germ, which is oval 

 and striated. Corolla bluish purple, the tube prismatic and 

 cleft above, the segments spreading, acute, the two upper ones 



