298 PENTANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Impatiens. 



sule 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. Li«/i. % PL 1321. WilU.vA^d^^. FL Br. 243. Engl. 

 Bot. V. 14. ^.953. Curt. Lond.fasc.6. L 63. Dicks. H. Sice. fuse. 

 16.9. BuU.Fr.t.d. 



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 1,/. 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 J 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 -, the lower- 

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

 roughish partial stalks, and linear-lanceolate hracteas. 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. 



110. IMPATIENS. Balsam. 



Linn. Gen. AbS. Fl. Br. 243. Riv. Tetrap. Irr. t.]2\. Lam. 1.725. 



Balsamina. Juss. 270. Tourn.t. 23b. Riv. Tetrap. Irr. t. \20. 

 G(Ertn. i. 113. 



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

 Perhaps allied in some points to Corchorus, 



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 i 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 



