LOBELIA INFLATA, 
WILD TOBACCO. INDIAN TOBACCO, 
Emetic weed. Bladder-podded Lobelia. Eye-bright. 
Actions ee Germ. cwilla.) 
Cliff. 500. Roy. Lugdb. 528. Houttuyn Lin, PAl, Syst. 10 p. 69. ye tee Mich. 
Fl. Boreali-Am. vol. 2. p. 152. Mubl. Cat. p.23. Big. Florul. Bost. p. 55. Thatch. Disp. 2d ed. 
p.258. Bart, Prodr. Fl. Ph. p. 30. Sheepf. Mat. Med. 128, Barton’s Collections, part 1. p.37, 5% 
Pers. Syn. Pl. vol. 2, 213. Elliot. Sketch. Georg. &c. p. 266, Ait. Hort. Kew. ed, 2. —— 
359. ete Se 
at 
LOBELIA. 
Cal 5.68. Cor. Tight torcg vhs, sla Sen Cape. infera, 2-3-locularis. 
Nat. Fam. Juss. Lobeliacee. (Ann. du Mus.) 
Gen. Ch. Cal. Perianth of one leaf, surrounding the germen, in five deep, nearly equal, withering seg- 
. ‘ments; ‘the two superior ones most directed ‘upwards. Cor, of one petal, irregular, slightly rin- 
gent; _ tube cylindrical, longer than the calix, divided lengthwise. at the upper side; limb in five 
deep lanceolate segments, of which the two uppermost are smallest, most reflexed, and most 
deeply separated, constituting the upper lip; the three lowermost more spreading, and generally 
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