PENTANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Impatiens. 299 



side elliptic-oblong, with 5 angles, crowned, a little below the 

 summit, with the upright calyx. 



2. L. urens. Acrid Lobelia. 



Stem nearly upright. Lower leaves obovate, slightly toothed; 

 upper lanceolate, serrated. Clusters terminal. 



L. urens. Linn. Sp. PI. 132 1 . Willd. v. 1 . 946. Fl. Br. 243. Engl. 

 Bot. v. 14. t. 953. Curt. Lond.fasc.6. t.63. Dicks. H. Sicc.fasc. 

 16.9. Bull.Fr. t.9. 



Rapunculus galeatus blsesensis, seu soloniensis, flore violaceo mi- 

 nore. Moris, v. 2. 467. sect. 5. t. 5.f. 56. 



Rapuntium urens soloniense. Bocc. Sic. 21. t. 1 \.f. 3. 



Draba flore cseruleo galeato. Bauh. Pin. 1 10. Prodr. 53. 



On bushy heaths in Devonshire. 



On Shute Common, between Axminster and Honiton. Mr. New- 

 berry. On the slope of Kilmington hill, two miles from Axmin- 

 ster 3 Lord Webb Seymour. Curtis. Near Ottery St. Mary. 

 Miss Burgess. 



Perennial. August, September. 



Root fibrous. Stem a foot or more in height, branched, leafy, an- 

 gular, roughish, not hairy. Leaves alternate, oblong, with shal- 

 low, irregular, tooth-like serratures, nearly smooth 5 the lower- 

 most stalked. Clusters erect, long, simple, lax, with short, 

 roughish partial stalks, and linear -lanceolate bracteas. Calyx 

 and germen rough. Corolla light purplish blue, downy, with a 

 pale ribbed tube not an inch in length. Anthers incurved, downy 

 externally, blackish. Caps, of 2 cells. The whole herb is milky, 

 fetid, and very acrid. 



J 10. IMPATIENS. Balsam. 



Linn. Gen. 458. Fl, Br. 243. Riv. Tetrap. Irr. t.\2\. Lam, t. 725. 

 Balsamina. Juss.270. Tourn. t. 235. Riv. Tetrap. Irr. t. 120. 

 Gcertn. t.\\3. 



Nat. Ord. Corydales. Linn. 24. Akin to Gerania. Juss. 73. 

 Perhaps allied in some points to CorcJiorus, 



Cal. inferior, small, of 2 roundish, pointed, concave, lateral, 

 rather unequal, coloured, deciduous leaves. Cor. of 5 

 unequal petals, ringent; upper one roundish, flat, erect, 

 slightly 3-cleft, pointed in the middle, constituting the 

 upper lip ; lower pair very large, reflexed, dilated out- 

 wards, obtuse, irregular, constituting the lower lip; inter- 

 mediate pair opposite, at the base of the upper lip, some- 

 times united to the lower petals, sometimes wanting. Nec- 

 tary of 1 leaf, tubular, oblique at the mouth, whose upper 

 edge is attached to the receptacle, tapering at the base 



