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LOBELIA CARDINALIS. CARDINALS FLOWER. 



scarlet-colored flowers, are sometimes found. In the South, ac- 

 cording to Dr. Chapman, it is generally found in the muddy 

 banks of streams. In most parts of Pennsylvania we seek some 

 deep glen, where 



" the spring that gushed, 



In overflowing richness from the breast 

 Of all-maternal Nature, " 



may have left a swampy deposit in some tiny little plain, in order 

 to find it in perfection. Our drawing was made from a plant sent 

 by Mr. John T. Lovett, from Monmouth county. New Jersey, 

 taken, as he describes it, " from an open swamp." In culdva- 

 tion it is found to do well in common garden ground, if not 

 very hot and dry. 



Explanations ofthe Plate.— i. Central portion of a stem that was three feet high. 2. Upper 

 portion of the same in flower. 3. Showing the stamens united in a band round the pistil ; 

 after they have ceased to grow the pistil continues to develop, and finally expands its 

 bilobed stigma, a. 



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