NAT. ORDER. 



Lobeliacece. 



LOBELIA INFLATA. INDIAN TOBACCO. 



Class V. Pentandria. Order I. Monogynia. 



Gen. Char. Calyx five-cleft. Corolla irregular, fi\e-partecl, cleft 

 on the upper side nearly to the base. Anthers united into a 

 tube. Stigma tvvo-lobed. Capsule inferior, or semi-superior, 

 two or three-celled, two valved at the apex. 



Spe. Char. Stem hair}', branched. Leaves ovate-lanceolate. 

 Racemes leafy, somewhat paniculate. Capsules somewhat 

 inflated. 



"The Lobelia Injlata\& ^h\enm?i\, indigenous plant, usually found 

 growing from twelve to eighteen inches in height, with a fibrous 

 root; the stem is hairy, soUtary, erect, angular, much branched 

 about two-thirds of the way, and rises considerably above the sum- 

 mit of the highest branches ; the leaves are sessile, acute, serrate, 

 oval, hairy, and much scattered ; the Jlowers are disposed in numer- 

 ous leafy terminal racemes, and supported on short foot-stalks ; the 

 segments oi the calyx are linear and pointed; the j^owe?', which 

 is of a delicate bluish color, has a border labiate, the upper lip 

 being divided into two, and the lower into three acute segments ; 

 the piod is an ovate, inflated capsule, crowned with the pei'sistent 

 calyx, and contains in two cells numerous small brown seeds." — 

 Thomsons Materia Medica. 



Lobelia is a native of the United States, and is found growing 

 from Canada to Louisiana, by the road-sides and in stubble fields, 

 especially the next season after the crop is taken off. When broken 



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