214 DICOTYLEDONOUS PLANTS- 



above ; flowers solitary, on terminal filiform flexuous peduncles. C. 

 erinoides Muhl. C.flezuosa Mich. ? ' 



HAB. Wet meadows. Can. to Geor. June, July. @. Stem a 

 foot high, weak. Flowers small, white. Prickly Bell-flower, 



ORDER LXIX. LOBELIACE^. ' Lind. 



Calyx superior, 5-lobed, or entire. Carol raonopetalous, 

 irregular, inserted into the calyx, 5-lobed, or*5-cleft. Stamens 

 5,*inserted into 'the calyx alternately with the lobes of the 

 corol ; anthers cohering ; pollen ovaf. Ovary inferior, with 

 from 1 to 3-cells ; ovules very numerous, attached either to the 

 axis or the lining ; style simple ; stigma surrounded by a cup- 

 like fringe. Fruit capsular, 1 or more celled, many seeded, 

 dehiscing at the apex. Seeds' attached either to the lining or 

 Jbe axis of the pericarp ; embryo straight, in the axis of 

 fleshy albumen ; radicle pointing to the hilum. ,.., . 



Herbs or shrubs. Leaves alternate, without stipules. Flow- 

 ers axillary -or terminal. 



1. LOBELIA. Linn. 



Calyx 5-cIeft. Corol monopetalous, irregular, cleft on the 

 upper side nearly to its base. Stamens united into a tube. 

 Stigma 2-lobed. Capsule' inferior dr semisuperior, 2 or 3- 

 celled, opening at the summit. Seeds minute, scabrons. 



Pentandria. Monogynia. 



1. L. dortmanna Linn. : leaves linear, 2-celled, fleshy, obtuse ; 

 scape nearly naked ; flowers in a terminal raceme, remote, pedicelled, 

 nodding. L. paludosa ffutt. 



HAB. Ponds and swamps. Mass, to Geor. July. Z. Scape 

 18 inches high. Leaves growing in a single tuft about the root, 

 obtuse, spreading and recurved. Flowers 3 or 4, very remote, 

 pendulous, pedicelled, pale blue. Water Gladiolc. 



2. L. luil mii. Linn. : whole plant smooth ; stem erect, branched ; 

 leaves linear, remotely toothed ; . radicle ones spathulate ; .racemes ter- 

 minal, lax, few-flowered, leafy ; peduncles longer than the fruit, with 

 2 minute bracts near the'flo'wer; capsule tapering at base. 



HAB. Fields. N. S. .July, Aug. U.^Stem 1220 inches 

 high, slender: Flowers blue, on long peduncles. 



3. L. nuttallii R. # &. : stem erect, minutely scabrous, simple, or 

 with filiform branches ; leaves oblong-linear, denticulate ; flowers in 

 lender racemes, distinct ; peduncles coloured, shorte/r. than the flower, 

 with minute bracts near the base ; capsule obtuse below. L gracili^ 

 Xutt.L. kalmii Bart. Ell. 





