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OR, BOTANICAL DICTIONARY 



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31. Lobelia Minuta; Least Lobelia. Root-leaves ovate; 

 scapes axillary. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. See the 

 thirty-eighth species. 



32. Lobelia Volubilis; Twining Lobelia. Stem twining. 

 Native of the Cape of Good Hope. See the thirty-eighth 

 species. 



3:3. Lobelia Atncena. Plant erect, very smooth ; leaves 

 lato-lanceolate, serrate; spikes multiflorous; lacinia: of the 

 calix very entire ; dowers of a beautiful sky-blue. This 

 grows to the height of from two to three feet, and is found 

 on the mountains of Virginia and Carolina. 



34. Lobelia Glandulosa. Plant erect ; subraccmose, sub- 

 pubescent, lucid; leaves lanceolate, glandulous-serrate, snb- 

 rarnous; flowers racemose, on short footstalks; laciniae of 

 the calix revolute, dentated ; flowers dark blue. It grows 

 from eight inches to a toot high, 'and is found in Pine-swamps 

 from Virginia to Florida. 



35. Lobelia Puberula. Plant erect, very simple, pubes- 

 cent; leaves oblong-oval, repand-serrulate; flowers spicated, 

 alternate, subsestile; germen hispid; calix ciliate; flowers 

 middle size, sky-blue. It grows from one to two feet high, 

 and is found in the range of mountains from Virginia to 

 Carolina. 



'* With a prostrate Stem, and gashed Leaves. 



36. Lobelia Laurentia ; Italian Annual Lobelia. Stem 

 prostrate; leaves lanceolate-oval, crenate ; stem branched; 

 peduncles solitary, one-flowered, very long. Native of Italy 

 about Pisa ; also of the islands of Elba, Corsica, and Sicily. 



37. Lobelia Repanda. Stem prostrate, quite simple ; leaves 

 roundish, repand toothed ; peduncles axillary, solitary, one- 

 flowered. Native of New Zealand. 



38. Lobelia Erinus; Small Spreading Lobelia. Stem 

 patulous ; leaves lanceolate, somewhat toothed ; peduncles 

 very long ; flowers small and blue, appearing in July. Native 

 of the Cape of Good Hope. If the seeds of this and of the 

 next species, together with the seeds of all those which are 

 natives of the Cape of Good Hope, be sown in autumn, they 

 will succeed much better than when they are sown in spring. 

 They may be sown in pots, and placed under a common hot- 

 bed frame in winter, always exposing them to the open air 

 in mild weather, but screening them from the frost. In the 

 spring, they should be plunged into a moderate hot-bed, 

 which will soon bring up ihe plants; and when they are fit 

 to remove, they should be each planted in a separate small 

 pot, filled willi rich earth, and replunged into a moderate 

 hot-bed. Here they should be shaded from the sun till ihey 

 have taken new root, and afterwards must have a large share 

 of air in mild weather. Then they should be gradually hard- 

 ened to bear the open air, into which they ought to be 

 removed in June, placing them in a sheltered situation, where 

 they will flower in July: and if the season should prove favour- 

 able, the seeds will ripen in September; but if the season 

 should prove cold, it will be proper to remove one or two 

 plants into a glass case, to ob'ain good seeds. 



39. Lobelia Erinoides; Trailing Lobelia. Stems prostrate, 

 filiform ; leaves petioled, oblong, toothed. Native of the 

 Cape of Good Hope. See the preceding species. 



40. Lobelia Anceps. Leaves lanceolate, decurrent ; root 

 annual. Native of the East Indies. 



41. Lobelia Pubescens; Downy leaved Lobelia. Stems 

 angular, prostrate; leaves lanceolate, toolhed, rough-haired; 

 peduncles axillary, one-flowered. It flowers from May to 

 August. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. See the thirty- 

 eighth species. 



42. Lobelia Zeylanica. Stems procumbent ; leaves ovate, 

 serrate, acute, lower obtuse; peduncles one-flowered; cap- 



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sules subvillose; flowers blue. Native of China, in watery 

 and shady places. 



43. Lo'belia Lutea; Yellow Lobelia. Steins procumbent ; 

 leaves lanceolate, serrate ; flowers sessile, subspil.ed. It 

 flowers in June and July. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 

 See the thirty-eighth species. 



44. Lobelia Hirsuta. Shrubby, hirsute, prostrate : leaves 

 ovate, toothed ; peduncles lateral, very long, two or three- 

 flowered. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. See the 

 thirty-eighth species. 



45. Lobelia Coronopifolia. Leaves lanceolate, toothed ; 

 peduncles very long. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 

 See the thirty-eighth species. 



**'* With a prostrate Stem, and entire Leaves. 



46. Lobelia Depressa. Depressed: leaves lanceolate; stem 

 fleshy; flowers dark purple. Native of Ihe Cape of Good 

 Hope. See the thirty-eighth species. 



Loblolly Bay. See Gordonia. 



Locfctr-Goulans. See Trollius. 



Locust Tree. See Hymenaa. 



Loeflingia ; a genus of the class Triandria, order Mono- 

 gynia. GENERIC CHARACTER. Calix: perianth five- 

 leaved, upright ; leaflets lanceolate, marked on each side 

 at the base with a toothlet, sharp-pointed, permanent, 

 Corolla: petals five, very small, oblong-o\ate, converging 

 into a globe, round. Stamina: filamenta three, length of 

 the corolla; antherie roundish, twin. Germen: superior, 

 ovate, three-corhered ; style filiform, rather wider above ; 

 stigma a little obtuse. Pericarp : capsule ovate, somewhat 

 three-cornered, one-celled, three-valved. Seeds : a great 

 many, ovate, oblong. ESSENTIAL CHARACTER. Calix: 

 five-leaved. Corolla: five-petalled, very small. Capsule: 

 one-celled, three-valved. The only known species is, 



1. Loetlingia Ilispanica. Root annual; branches prostrate, 

 alternate; corolla white. It flowers in June. Native of Spain, 

 on open hills. 



Loesdia ; a genus of the class Didynamia, order Angio- 

 spermia. GENERIC CHARACTER. Calix: perianth one- 

 leafed, tubular, four cleft, sharp, short, permanent. Corolla: 

 one-petalled, unequal; tube ihe length of the calix ; border 

 five-parted ; all the divisions deflected to Ihe lower side, 

 ovate-lanceolate, equal. Stamina: filamenta four, length of 

 Ihe corolla, of which two are -shorter; all opposite the divi- 

 sions of Ihe petals, and reflected in a contrary situation to 

 the corolla; antherae simple. Pistil: germen ovate; style 

 simple, situated as Ihe stamina ; stigma thickish. Pericarp: 

 capsule ovate, three-celled. Seeds: solitary or two, obscurely 

 cornered. Obserre. Gaerlner remarks, that the stamina are 

 five, one of which is shorter than the rest, and fastened to 

 the nearest segment of the corolla, the rest inserted into the 

 tube. ESSENTIAL CHARACTER. Calix: four-cleft; accord- 

 ing to Gaertner, five-toothed. Corolla: with all the segments 

 directed one way; Gaertner says, deeply five- cleft, with 

 oblong ciliated segments. Stamina: opposite lo ihe petal; 

 according to Gaertner, five, unequal. Capsule: three-celled ; 



gaping at top, according to Gaertner. The only known 



species is, 



1. Loeselia Ciliata. Stem upright; leaves opposite. 

 Found at La Veia Cruz in South America. 



Logwood. See H<ematoxylum. 



Lolium ; a genlis of ihe class Triandria, order Digynia. 

 GENERIC CHARACTER. Calix: receptacle common, elon- 

 gated into a spike, pressing the flowers, distichally spiked to 

 the angle of the culm ; glume univalve, opposite the shaft, 

 awl-shaped, permanent. Corolla: bivalve; valvule inferior 

 narrow-lanceolate, convolute, sharp-pointed, the length of 

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