164 GAMOPETALOUS EXOGENS 



Obs. This species appears to be confined to the South Western 

 portion of the County. It is quite abundant in some of the moist 

 meadows of Penn Township. 



f f t Flowers pale blue, and smatt. 



4. 1. iilflilta. L. Hirsute; stem paniculately branched; leaves 



lance-ovate, crenate-dentate ; calyx-lobes without auricles ; capsule 



inflated. 



INFLATED LOBELIA. Indian Tobacco. 



Biennial? lactescent. Stem 9 to 18 inches high, sometimes wing-angled by the 

 decurrence -of the leaves ; branches axillary. Leaves 1 to 2 or 3 inches long, rather 

 acute. Racemes leafy ; flowers rather inconspicuous ; capsules ovoid, or oval, thin 

 and membranaceous, smoothish. 

 Hob. Pastures ; roadsides, &c. : frequent. Fl. July. Fr. Aug. 



Obs. This harsh, acrid plant, is somewhat noted for the use made 

 of it by a tribe of modern Empirics, whose successful impostures, 

 at this time of day, would almost excuse the impatient adage si 

 vulgus vult decipi, decipiatur ! 



5. Ij. spicsita, Lam. Pubescent, or sometimes smoothish; stem 

 simple and slender ; leaves oblong, the radical ones often spatulate ; 

 raceme somewhat spiked, virgate and naked. 

 L. Claytoniana. MX. $ Fl. Cestr. ed. 2. p. 154. 

 SPIKED LOBELIA. 



Perennial. Stem 1 to 2 or 3 feet high, somewhat angular-sulcate, often 2 or 3 from 

 the root. Leaves 1 to 2 or 3 inches long, the radical ones nearly entire, the 

 upper ones smaller, acute and denticulate. Raceme 6 to 10 or 12 inches long; 

 bracts lance-linear. 

 Hob. Fields, meadows, and open woods : frequent. Fl. June. Fr. Aug. 



ORDER LIIL CAMPANULACEAE. 



Herbs, with a milky juice ; leaves alternate, without stipules ; flowers scattered ; 

 calyxJube adherent to the ovary ; corolla more or less campanulate, regularly 5- 

 lobed, valvate in the bud ; stamens mostly 5, free from the corolla, and from each 

 other; seeds numerous, with fleshy albumen. 



235. CAMPAtf'IJI^A, Tournef. 



[Latin, diminutive of Campana, a bell; from the shape of the corolla.] 

 Calyx 5-cleft. Stamens distinct; filaments dilated connivent and 

 valve-like at base. Stigmas mostly 3 ; capsule with as many cells, 

 each cell opening by a lateral parietal valve, which lifts upward. 



1 C. aparinoides, Pursh. Stem slender, weak and straggling, 

 acutely angular ; angles retrorsely scabrous ; leaves linear-lanceo- 

 late ; pedicels terminal, filiform ; flowers small. 

 APARINE-LIKE CAMPANULA. 



Annual? /Stem 12 to 18 inches long, somewhat 3-angled, branching, limber and 

 straggling, supported by other plants. Leaves % an inch to 1% inches in length, 

 sessile. Pedicels % an inch to an inch long ; flowers whitish, with purple veins , 

 nodding ; style about as long as the corolla. 

 Hob. Swamps, and wet thickets : frequent. Fl. July. Fr. Aug. 

 2. C. Americana, L. Stem erect, virgate ; leaves ovate-lance- 

 ,olate, acuminate; flowers in a terminal leafy raceme; pedicels 

 short, clavate. 



