Lobeliaceae. Lobelia Family. 
Herbs with alternate simple leaves without Stipules. Flowers perfect, 
irregular. Sepals 5. Corolla 2-lipped, the upper lip deeply 2-cleft, the 
lower less deeply 3-lobed. Stamens 5, free fran the corolla but the fila- 
ments or anthers united into a tube around the style. Ovary inferior, 
1<5-chambered» Style 1. Fruit a capsule. 
Submerged aquatic plants; the submerged flowers cleistogamous, 
— 
{. Howellia a, Gray. 
Aquatic herbs with alternate linear or threadlike leaves and anall 
axillary flowers. tepets—6,—th> calyx tube wholly joined to the linear 
ovary. Corollas of the submerged flowers imperfectly developed, those of 
the emersed flowers with the tube cut nearly to the base on the upper side, 
the lobes subequal. Stamens joined into a tube around the Style. Ova 
one-chambered, 2=seeded, dehiscing irregularly on one side at maturity. 
a ; 1. He aquatilis Gray. = > Very fragile herbs with threadlike stems 
15-30 cm. long, the leaves about a third as long, the submerged ones thread< 
like, the emersed ones narrowly linear, sparingly toothed: 
+th> sepals 1.5-3 mm. long; *he corolla 
Club-shaped 12-15 mm. long, the seeds 2, 3 mm. 
; } Spirit Lake (Lake Tessemini) Sandberg 699; 
a 
i made, the lake shore has been considerably modified by the building of a 
/ ae dam. It is accordingly not pnrpesihie that this species has disappeared; 
as 
inconspicuous 
be. 
rudimentary J. Howellia 
Low herbs of vernal pools or swampy places which later 
become dry, not submerged; flowers all alike, none 
cleistogamous 2. Domingia 
ica nbd 52-7, 
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