112 PENTANDRIA.— MONOGYNIA. 



I. C. acuminata: nearly smooth ; stem straight, erect, 

 leaves lanceolate, attenuated to a long point, sub- 

 serrate ; spike fasciculate, many-flowered; corolla 

 subrotate. 



HAB. High mountains. %. Stem erect, 2 — 3 ft, 

 high ; leav. remotely serrate ; ft. by threes, blue. 

 5. C. aparanoia'es : stem blender, branched, acutely 

 subtriangular ; angles, with the margin and nerves 

 of the leaves, retrorsely aculeate ; leaves linear- 

 lanceolate, smooth above ; peduncles few, terminal, 

 filiform, flexuous, 1 -flowered. 



HAB. Wet meadows. June — Aug. © . Erect or 

 diffuse, 1 ft. high ; leav. dentic. ; ft. small, white. 



167. LOBELIA. Lobeliucece. 



1 . L. Dortmanna : leaves linear, fleshy, 2-celIed, ob- 



tuse ; scape nearly naked ; flowers racemed, remote. 

 HAB. Swamps. — subaquatic. July. If.. Leaves 

 immersed : radical ones spreading ; scape long. 

 3 — 4-ft ; cor. blue. 



2. L. Kalmii : whole plant smooth; stem slender, 



erect, branched ; leaves linear, remotely denticu- 

 late ; radical ones spathulate ; raceme lax, few- 

 flowered, leafy ; peduncles longer than the fruit, 

 with 2 minute bracts near the flower ; capsule at- 

 tenuate at the base. 

 HAB. Rocky banks of rivers. July — Aug. $ ? 

 Stem 12 — 18 in. high ; pedunc. 1 in. long ; ft. pah 

 blue. 



j. L. Nuttallii : stem erect, minutely scabrous, simple, 

 or with filiform branches ; leaves oblong-linear, 

 denticulate ; flowers in slender racemes, distant ; 

 peduncles coloured, shorter than the flower, with 

 minute bracts near the base ; capsule obtuse be- 

 low. 

 HAB. Borders of sandy swamps. Aug. $. Stem 

 slender, 2 ft. high ; seg. of the cal. longer than thf 

 caps. ; ft. pale blue. 



t. L. Claytoniana : stem erect, simple, pubescent ; 

 leaves oblong, pubescent, obtuse, nearly entire ; 

 radical ones spathulate : raceme virgate, naked ; 



