• PLATE XXXV. 



1. LOBELIA CARDINALIS. 



SCARLET LOBELIA, OR CARDINALS FLOWER. 



This genus contains plants of the herbaceous and under shrubby 

 perenial kind. 



It belongs to the class and order Si/ngencsia Mo7iogamia,nnd ranks 

 in the natural order of Campnnacece. 



The characters are: that the calyx is a one-leafed perianlhiuni, 

 five-cleft, very small: growing round the gerrn, withering: toothlets 

 nearly equal: the two superior ones looking more upward: the co- 

 rolla one-petalled, irregular: tube cylindric, longer than the calyx, 

 divided longitudinally above: border five-parted, divisions lanceo- 

 late; of which the two superior ones are smaller, less reflex, more 

 deeply divided, constituting an upper lip: the three inferior ones 

 more spreading, frequently larger: the stamina have five awl-shaped 

 filaments, the length of the tube of the petal, connate above: anthers 

 connate into an oblong cylinder, gaping five ways at the base: the 

 pistillum is a sharp-pointed, inferior germ: style cylindric, length of 

 the stamens: stigma obtuse, hispid: the pericarpium an ovale cap- 

 sule, two or three-celled, two or three-valved, gaping at the top, girl 

 by the calyx: dissepiments contrary to the valves: the seeds a great 

 many, very small: receptacle conic. 



'J'he species cultivated are: 1. L. cardinalis, Scarlet Lobelia, or 

 Cardinal's Flower; 2. L. slphiiiiica. Blue Lobelia, or Cardinal Flower; 

 3. L. longifiora. Long-flowered Lobelia ; 4. L. piiiifolia. Pine-leaved 

 Ii(jbelia; 5. L. iiifluta. Bladder-podded Lobelia. 



In the first, the root is composed of many white fleshy fibres : the 

 lower leaves are oblong, and of a dark purplish colour on their upper 



