LOB 



OR, BOTANICAL DICTIONARY. 



LOB 



capsule top-shaped, one celled, three-valved at t!ie tip ; valves 

 serai-ovate, acute, spreading. Seeds: a great many, ovate, 

 small ; receptacles three longitudinal lines running from the 

 bottom of the capsule to the incisures of the valves. Observe. 

 In point of affinity it approaches Mentzelia; in habit and 

 situation of the germen and seeds, it approaches the Cucurbi- 

 laccous plants. ESSENTIAL CHARACTER. Calix: five- 

 leaved, superior. Corolla: tive-petalled ; petals hooded; 

 nectary five-leaved, converging ; capsule turhinate, one-celled, 

 three-valved, many-seeded. The only known species is, 



i. Loasa Hispida. This is an elegant annual plant, rising 

 from a fibrous white root, the thickness of the little finger; 

 stems round, v. hitish-gree.il, maiked here and there with short 

 brown longitudinal lines; flowers handsome, but scentless; 

 petals yellow. Native of Sout.li America. 



Lobelia; a genus of the class S>ngenesia, order M.moga 

 rnia. GENERIC CHARACTER. Calix: perianth one-leafed, 

 live-cleft, very small, growing round the germen, withering; 

 toothlets nearly equal, the two superior ones looking more 

 upward. Corolla: one-petallrd, irregular; tube cviindric, 

 longer than the calix, divided longitudinally above; border 

 five-parted ; divisions lanceolate, of which the two superior 

 ones are smaller, less reflex, more deeply divided, constituting 

 mi upper lip, the three inferior ones more spreading, frequently 

 larger. Stamina: lilamenla five, awl-shaped, the length of 

 the lube of the petal, connate above; authene connate into 

 an oblong cylinder, gaping five ways at the base. Pistil: 

 gerimri sharp-pointed, inferior: style cylindric, length of tile 

 stamina; stigma obtuse, hispid. Pericarp: capsule ovate, 

 two or three celled, two or three valved, gaping at the top, 

 girt by the calix; dissepiments contrary to the valves. Seeds: 

 a great many, very small; receptacle conic. ESSENTIAL 

 CHARACTER. Calix: five-cleft. Corolla: one petalled, irre- 

 gular. Capsule: inferior, two or three-celled. The spe- 

 cies are, 



* With entire Leaves. 



1. Lobelia Simplex ; Slenrler Lobelia. Stem upright ; 

 leaves linear, quite entire ; peduncles solitary. It is a small 

 innual plant, scarcely a hand high. Native of the Cape of 

 Good Hope. See the thirty-eighth species. 



2. Lobelia Coliumure ; Mealy Lobelia. Leaves oblong, 

 blunt, revolute, very much wrinkled, shilling above, tomenlose 

 beneath; branch or stem somewhat woody, angular, tomen- 

 lose, mealy. Native of New Granada. 



3. Lobelia Bellidilblia; Daisy-leaved Lobelia. Stem up- 

 right, panicled ; leaves obovale, crenate. Native of the Cape 

 of Good Hope. See the thirty-eighth species. 



4. Lobelia Pinifolia; Pine-leared Lobelia. Shrubby: leaves 

 linear, clustered, quite entire ; flowers many, smail, blue; 

 they are found at the tops of the twigs, among the leaves. 

 TS'aiive of the Cape of Good Hope. See the thirty-eighth 

 species. 



5. Lobelia Dortmanna; Water Lobelia, or Gladiulr. Leaves 

 linear, two-celled, quite entire; stem almost naked, erect, 

 round, hollow, smooth; flowers about nine, in a loose .spike, 

 above the water; corolla white, fainlly tinged with blue. 

 Linni'iis remarks, ihat the whole plant, even the leaves beneath 

 the water, are milky, and that the flowering-stalk is of a length 

 proportional to the depth of water in which the plant grows. 

 It flowers in July and August. Native of the norlh of 

 Europe, in mountain lakes : hence it is found in Wales, VVe.it- 

 moreland, Cumberland, and Scotland. See the twenty-fourth 

 species. 



(>. Lobelia Tupa. Leaves lanceolate, quite entire ; raceme 

 spiked. The root and herb of this species are a viohut poi- 

 son. Native of Peru. 



7. Lobelia Kalmii. Stem upright ; leaves lanceolate-linear, 

 blunlish, alternate, quite entire; raceme terminating, afoot 

 high ; corolla blue. Annual, and a native of Canada. See 

 the twenty-fourth species. 



. Lobelia I'aniculata ; Panicled Lobelia. Leaves linear, 

 quite entire, panicled, dichotomous. Native of the Cape ot 

 Good Hope. See the thirty-eighth species. 



!). Lobelia Graudis; Great. Lobelia. Leaves oblong, quite 

 entire, smooth; corymbs bracted; corollas hispid. Native 

 of South America. 



10. Lobelia Ferrnginea; Rust-coloured Lobelia. Stem 

 villose; leaves lanceolate, serrate, acute, where the veins 

 aoaslomoze ruit-coloured-toinentose on both sides ; genitals 

 elongated. -Native of America. 



11. Lobelia Chineusis; Chinese Lobelia. Leaves lanceolate, 

 quite entire; flowers solitary, terminating; stem creeping; 

 corolla pale blue. Native of China, near Canton. 



12. Lobelia Cornuta; Horned Lobelia. Leaves ovate, 

 petioled ; ttaminuvery long. It is distinguished by its horned 

 form, and the great length of the stamina. Native of Cayenne. 



13. Lobelia Fulgens. Plant erect, simple, subpubescent ; 

 leaves elongate-lanceolate, attenuate, very entire; raceme 

 multiflorous. It grows on the banks of the Mississippi. This 

 species exceeds in splendour of colour, and size, the Lobelia 

 Cardinally. 



** With an upright Stem, and gashed Leaves. 



14. Lobelia I'hyteuma. Leaves ovate-oblong, crenate; 

 stem almost naked, spiked ; antherae hirsute, distinct. Native 

 of the Cape of Good Hope. Seethe thirty-eighth species. 



15. Lobelia Bulbosa; Tuberous -rooted Lobelia. Stem 

 upright ; lower leaves pedate. Native of the Cape of Good 

 Hope. See the thirty-eighth species. 



16. Lobelia Triquetra; Tooth leaved Lobelia. Stem up- 

 right; leaves lanceolate, toothed ; raceme terminating, leafless. 

 It-flowers from May to September. Native of the Cape of 

 Good Hope. See the thirty-eighth species. 



17. Lobelia Longiflora ; Long-Jlowered Lobelia. Leaves 

 lanceolate, toothed; peduncles very short, lateral; tube of 

 the corolla filiform, very long. This is an annual herbaceous 

 elegant plant, seldom above fourteen or sixteen inches high ; 

 stem upright; corolla handsome, white. It is altogether very 

 poisonous, and brings on an invincible purging. If, after 

 handling il, the hand be unawares applied to the eyes or lips, 

 it brings on an inflammation. Horses are said to burst with 

 eating it : whence in the Spanish Yv'est Indies it is called 

 Reveal a CacaJlos. It is well known in Dominica under the 

 name of Quedec. It is also a native of Jamaica, Cuba, and 

 Marlinico, by rivulets, and in moist cool shady places. It 

 flowers from June to August. The seeds of this plant should 

 be sown, after it is ripe, in pots filled with rich earth, and 

 plunged into the tan-bed in the stove, observing to refresh 

 the earth frequently with water. In the spring, these pots 

 may be removed, and plunged into a hot-bed, which will soon 

 bring up the plants : when they are fit to remove, they should 

 be each transplanted into a separate small pot filled with rick 

 earth, and plunged into a fresh hot-bed, shading them from 

 the sun till they have taken new root; then they may be 

 treated in the bame way as olh< i tender plants from the same 

 country, in allowing them a large share of air in warm wea- 

 ther, and frequently refreshing them with water. In autumn 

 the plants must be plunged into the tan bed of the stove, 

 where they will flower the following summer, and produce 

 ripe seeds; soon after which the plants will decay. If the 

 seeds of this plant are brought from the West Indies, they 

 should be sown, as soon as they arrive, in pots filled with rich 

 earth: and if il happen in the winter, the pots should be 



