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PENTANDRTA MONOGYNIA. 



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iZoof perennial. Stem herbaceous, 8 — 1 2 inches high, generally sira^ 

 ienrgs obovate, obtuse, entire, tapering at base to a footstalk 

 ncarlj an inch long. Floicers in a terminal, loose raceme. Pedunclen 

 about an inch long. Flowers small, white. 



Grows in bogs and wet places. 

 . Flowers through the summer. 



LOBELIA. Gen. pl. 



Cati/x S-fidus. 



fa i-petala, 



Anther ce 



C a pallia infer a J 



culai'is. 



1. Kat.mii. 

 L. caiile crecto 



CoroU 

 irregularis. 



Calyx 



a 



cleft. 



Corol 



la 1 petalleci, 



colijerentes. Anthers coheiing, 



irregular. 



and 



3 



lo- 



forniiiig a tube. 

 inferior, :3 — 3 ceiled. 



Capsule 



Stem erect, slender: 



ate, stem 



]i; foliis radicalibus spa- | root leaves spatijuiate, 

 thiilato-ovatis, caulinis li- 

 nearibus, sulnntegris ; ra- 

 cemo terminali, spaisi- 



floi 



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nearly entire; raceme 

 terminal, with the flowers 

 scatteied. 



s'irpl. 1. p. 930. Walt. p. 218. "Mich. 2. p. 153. Pursh,2.p. 446. 



^oof perennial. ,S'im 1-2 feet high, very slender. Stem Im-es 

 small, linear, nearlv subulate ; radical leaves spathulate, ovate, some 

 tiufc n ar r orbiculate, pubescent. Flowers small, attenuate, remote, 

 on pedunclis 3-4 lines long. Calyx stnall, tube^cup-sl^ped 5 bor- 

 der 4 cleft ; segments subulate, longer than the tube. torolUi l pe^ 

 tailed, irregular, pale blue, tube split «" th« upper^side to the ja.^ 

 borde; 3 cllft, the two lateral segments subulate, '•^^Af^^J' /J^^,^ 'In 

 actrment larger, 3 cleft, with the middle division again thf/^'^f 'j ' ,,^ 

 S acute! W«^s linear, pubescent with the coro^^ 

 inserted into the calyx, continuing to the base of the germ- "J« 

 cohering into a tube, incurved, pale blue, at the S"«J°jf/«'^^. J fili! 



opening a ong the inner surface Germ superior, ovate 



opem e, ^ ='---«-- 6l£o-nm coihpresse.i, villous. |fl^^ 



form, as long as the stamens, 

 gvalved, 2 celled, surround 

 vous, ovate, attached to a central receptacle. 

 Grows in damp, poor soils 



Flowers May— August 



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