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oval brown fhining feeds. The florets in the 

 centre of the head are often abortive. The 

 young plants yield a milky juice. 

 LhfKxus fays that bees arc fond of the flowers. 



LOBELIA. Gen.f.. 1006. 



Cal. 5-fidus. Corolla i-petala, irregularis. Caps. 

 infera, 2-s. 3-locularis. 

 dortmannai LOBELIA foliis linearibus bilocularibus integerri- 

 mis, caule fubnudo. Sp. pi. 131 8. (Pet. herb. t. 

 6y,f. 7. Oed. Dan. t. S9''^fiS' «^/-) 



Water Lobelia, Water Gladiole. Anglis. 



It is very frequent in almoft every frefli-water loch 

 in Scotland, and particularly in the highlands 

 and weftern ifles, growing near the edges of the 

 water. %. VII. IX. 



The leaves fpread in a circle about the root, and 

 grow under the water : they are about two inches 

 long, linear, fiattiih, and generally a little re- 

 flexed at the ends, and if cut tranfverfely are 

 found to confift of two longitudinal and paral- 

 lel hollow tubes, which is very remarkable : the 

 ftalk is cre6l, round, hollpw, from a foot to two 

 feet high, and almoft naked : the flowering part 

 raifed out of the water. The flowers are white, 

 with a flight tinge of blue or purple, eight or 

 ten in number, growing in a thin fpike : each || 

 is monopetalous and ringenr, divided into five 

 fegmenti- at the rim ; the two upper fcgments 

 narrow, lanceolate, and a little reflexed : the 

 three others broader and oval : the caplule is 



obtulely 



