Class V. Order I. 37 



lanceolate, the three lower ones oval. Anthers collected into 

 an oblong, curved body, purple ; filaments white. Style filiform ; 

 stigma curved and inclosed by the anthers. Capsules two celled, 

 turgid, oval, compressed, ten angled, covered with the calyx. 

 Seeds numerous, small, oblong, brown. Fields and road sides. 

 Midsummer. Annual. 



The whole plant operates as a violent emetic. 



LOBELIA DORTMANNA. L. Water Lobelia. 



Leaves linear, two celled, entire ; stem nearly 

 naked. L. . 



A very singular aquatic plant. The leaves grow in a single 

 tuft at the bottom of the water. They are from one to three 

 inches long, recurved, blunt, and of a fleshy appearance. On 

 cutting them across, they are found to consist of two empty par- 

 allel tubes. The stem rises out of water, bearing a few remote 

 pendulous flowers of a pale blue colour. Segments of the calyx 

 acute, persistent. Tube of the corolla prismatic, its segments 

 lanceolate. Capsule partly superior and inferior, tipt with the 

 style, two celled. Seeds numerous, ovate, compressed, black. 

 The whole plant gives out a milky juice on being broken. 

 Found in Fresh pond. July. 



92. LONICERA. 



LONICERA PARVIFLOIIA. Small yellow Honeysuckle. 



Whorls of the spike subsessile ; corollas short, 

 ringent, gibbous at base ; filaments bearded ; leaves 

 all connate, glaucous beneath, deciduous, the upper 

 ones perfoliate, and much exceeding the flowers. 



Syn. LONICVHA DIOICA. L. 



An erect shrub with pale, rough bark. Leaves oblong, undu- 

 late and revolute at the edge, white-glaucous underneath, mostly 

 sessile, the upper ones connate. Flowers in a terminal head or 

 whorl. Germs aggregate, ovate, supporting a minute calyx of 

 five subacute teeth. Corolla yellow, the tube gibbous at base, 

 the border irregular, with its segments commonly curled or re- 

 volute at the edge. Stamens exserted, as long as the segments 

 of the corolla, smooth above, growing to the corolla, and slightN 



