242 LOBELIACE.E. (LOBELIA FAMILY.) 



top. Pod 2-cellcd, many-seeded, opening at the top. Flowers axillary or 

 chiefly in bructcd racemes. (Dedicated to Lobe/, nn early Flemish herbalist.) 

 # Flowers d'i> rl, la rye: stem xinijtte. 



1. L.. cardinally L. (CARDINAL-FLOWER.) Tall (2-4 : 

 smoothish ; leaves oblong-lanceolate, slightly toothed ; raceme elongated, rather 

 1 -sided; the pedicels much shorter than the leaf-like bracts. Low grounds; 

 common. July -Oct. Perennial by offsets, with large and very showy in- 

 tensely red flowers, rarely varying to rose-color! (Plymouth, Mr. Gilbert), 

 or even to white ! 



* # Floivers blue, or blue variegated with white. 



- Stems leafy to the top, simple (l-3 high) : leaves oblong or ovate-lanceolate: 

 sinuses of the calyx with conspicuous deflexed auricles : flowers crowded in a long 

 spike or dense raceme. 



2. It. syphilitica, L. (GREAT LOBELIA.) Somewhat hairy ; leaves thin, 

 acute at both ends (2' -6' long), irregularly sen-ate; flowers (nearly 1' long) pedi- 

 celled, longer than the leafy bracts ; calyx hirsute, the lobes half the length of 

 the corolla, the short tube hemispherical, y. Low grounds; common. Aug., 

 Sept. Flowers light blue, rarely white. 



3. JL. ptlberilla, Miehx. Finely soft-pubescent ; leaves thickish, obtuse (!'- 

 2' long), with small glandular teeth; spike rather 1-sided; calyx-lobes (find unite 

 bracts) little shorter than the corolla, the hairy tube top-shaped. 1J. Moist grounds, 

 New Jersey to Ohio and southward. Aug. Corolla bright blue, ' long. 



4. Li. ItijMostciehys, A. DC. Smooth above; leaves obtuse, denticulate, 

 oblong-lanceolate, the upper gradually reduced to awl-shaped bracts ; raceme 

 ppike-likc, long and dense; lobes of the calyx nearly equalling the corolla, the 

 auricles in the form of 10 awl-shaped appendages as long as the hcmispht-rical tube. 

 1|. Sandy soil, Illinois and southward. July, Aug. Corolla 3" -4" long. 

 - *- Stems leafy, mostly simple (l-2 high) : leaves lanceolate or oblong-laiino- 



late : calyx-tube hemispherical, the sinuses destitute of auricles : flowers pretty large 

 ('-!' long) and showy, in a loose nearly l-sided raceme: ant/iers sometimes beard- 

 ed on the back. 



5. It. glandulosa, Walt. Sparingly hairy or pubescent ; leaves, bracts, 

 and usually the lobes of the calyx strongly glandular-toothed ; calyx-tube d<n*<ly 

 hispirl, rarely sparsely so, or smoothish. 1J. Moist places, Virginia and south- 

 ward. Aug., Sept. 



6. L. aillfrna, Michx. Glabrous (rarely minutely pubescent) ; leaves 

 and Sracts scarcely glandular-toothed ; calyx-lobes entire and slender. 1J. Shady 

 moist places, Virginia and southward. Sept. 



--- Si fins leafy : calyx-tube ovoid or tapering to an acute base, Jio auricles or ap- 



pendagct at the sinuses: Jlowers small (4'~^' ^ n o)> Tocemed. 

 *+ PaaieulaUfy much branched: racemes leafy : root annual or biennial. 



7. L. iiiflata, L. (INDIAN TOBACCO.) Somewhat pubescent (9'- 18' 

 high) ; leaves oblong or ovate-lanceolate, toothed; lobes of the calyx equalling 

 tlu- corolla (2" -3" long), the tul>c and the inflated pod ovoid. Dry open soil; 

 common. July - Sept. A virulent poison and quack mcdieiuo. 



