PLATE XXXV. 



1. LOBELIA CARDINALIS. 



SCARLET LOBELIA, OR CARDINAL'S FLOWER. 



THIS genus contains plants of the herbaceous and under shrubby 

 perenial kind. 



It belongs to the class and order SyngenesiaMonogamia, and ranks 

 in the natural order of Cumpanaccce. 



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

 five-cleft, very small: growing round the germ, 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 lube 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 ovate cap- 

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

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

 many, very small: receptacle conic. 



The species cultivated are: 1. L. cardinalis, Scarlet Lobelia, or 

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

 3. L. longijiora, Long-flowered Lobelia ; 4. L. pinifolia, Pine-leaved 

 Lobelia; 5. L. injlata, 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 



