7G8 LOBELIACEAE (LOBELIA FAMILY} 



the calyx triangular, half the leni>th of the bt'll-shaped nearly white corolla (5-8 

 mm, long)', capsule erect. — Wet grassy ground, Me. to Neb., s. to Ga., K3\, and 

 III. June- Aug. — With the habit of a Galium. 



H. C. uliginbsa Kydb. Stiffcr ; leaves linear or el onriate-lanr eolatr ; flowers 

 chiefly borne on simple naked erect or ascending/ leafless peduncles (2,5-5.5 cm. 

 long); corolla bluish, 10-12 mm. long. — Meadows and wet shores, N. B. to 

 N. v., la., and Sa.sk. July, Aug. 



0. C. divaricata Michx. Very smooth ; stem loosely branched, 8-0 dm. high ; 

 leaves oblong-lanceolate, pointed at both ends, coarsely and sharply toothed; 

 floioers numerous in a large compound panicle ; calyx-lobes axol-shaped, about 

 half the length of the small pale blue corolla (6-8 mm. long); style exserted. — 

 Dry woods and rocks, mts. of Va. to Ky., and south w. 



3. JASI6nE L. Sheep's-bit 



Calyx 5-lobed. Corolla with 5 very narrow lobes. Anthers united at base 

 into a ring about the style. Capsule opening by 2 valves. — Herbs with small 

 flowers in involucrate heads. (Name used by Theophrastus, perhaps for Con- 

 volvulus sepium.) 



1. J. moxtAna L. Annual or biennial, 2-5 dm. high, simple or branching; 

 leaves linear or lanceolate ; flowers blue, in heads 1-2 cm. broad. — Fields and 

 roadsides, especially about New^port, R. I.; also sparingly elsewhere, from Mass. 

 to N. Y. (Nat. from Eu.) 



LOBELIACEAE (Lobelia Family) 



Herbs., with acrid milky juice, alternate leaves, and scattered flowers, an irreg- 

 ular gamopetalous ^-lobed corolla, the 5 stamens free from the corolla and united 

 into a tube commonly by their filaments and ahoays by their anthers. Calyx- 

 tube adherent to the many-seeded pod. Style 1 ; stigma often fringed. Seeds 

 anatropous, with a smaU straight embryo, in copious albumen. — Often united 

 with the preceding family. 



1. LOBELIA [Plumier] L. 



Calyx 5-cleft, with a short tube. Corolla with a straight tube split down on 

 the (apparently) upper side, somewhat 2-lipped ; the upper lip of 2 rather erect 

 lobes, the lower lip spreading and 3-cleft. Two of the anthers in our species 

 bearded at the top. Pod 2-celled, many-seeded, opening at the top. — Flowers 

 axillary or chiefly in bracted racemes ; in summer and early autumn. (Dedi- 

 cated to Matthias de VObel, an early Flemish herbalist.) 



* Flowers deep red, large ; stem simple. 



1. L. cardinalis L. (Cardinal-flower.) Tall (0.5-1.3 m. high), perennial 

 by offsets, smoothish ; leaves oblong-lanceolate, slightly toothed ; raceme elon- 

 gated, rather 1 -sided, tlie pedicels much shorter than the leaf-like bracts ; the 

 large corolla intensely red, rarely rose-color or white. — Low grounds, s. N. B. 

 to Ont., and south w, — Hybrids with the next species occur. 



* * Flowers blue, or blue variegated with ichite. 



■*- Flowers rather large (corolla-tube 1-1.3 cm. long), spicate-racemose ; stems 



leafy, 0.3-1 m. high; perennial. 



++ Leaves ovate to lanceolate, numerous ; lip of corolla glabrous. 



2. L. siphilitica L. (Great Lobelia.) Somewhat hairy ; leaves thin, aciite 

 at both ends, 0.5-1.5 dm. long, irregularly serrate ; flowers nearly 2.5 cm. long, 

 pediceled, longer than the leafy bracts ; corolla light blue, rarely white ; calyx 

 iiirsute, the sinuses irith conspicuous deflexed auricles, the short tube hemispheri- 

 cal. — Low grounds, Me. to Out., westw. and .southw. ; rare eastw. 



