284 LOBELTACE.E. (LOBELIA FAMILY.) 



8. L. spicita, Lam. StQin slender, strict and simple {1°-!^° high) from a 

 biennial- or pcrlraps perennial root, below and the barely denticulate leaves mi- 

 nutely pubescent ; lower and root-leaves obovatc or spatulate. the upper reduced 

 to linear or club-shaped bracts ; rarmie long and naked, mostly dense and many- 

 flowered ; calyx-tubc short, obconical or becoming almost hemispherical. (L. 

 Claytoniaua, il/«V/tx. L. pallida, Muhl.) — Moist or dry, mostly gravelly or 

 sandy soil : rather common, at least southward and westward. — A slender and 

 smaller flowered variety (beginning to blossom in June) grows in swamps at 

 Lancaster, Penn., Prof. Porter. — Corolla ordinarily 4" long. 



++ ++ Glabrous or nearly so : leaves small, linear or lancedafe, only those from the 

 root ohovate or spatulate, the uji/>ermost reduced to setaceous In-acts, all entire or 

 barely denticulate : stems vert/ slender, simple or hcomim) punirulatehj branched 

 above : racemes loosely several-flowered. 



9. L. Nuttallii, Uoem. & Seh. Stem very slender (l°-2° high), terete; 

 pedicels mostly longer than the bract and shorter than the flower, usually with very 

 minute bractiets near the base ; calyx-tube very short, depressed-hemispherical in 

 fruit, the globular pod half free ; corolla pale blue, barely 3" long. — Sandy 

 swamps, from Long Island, New Jersey, and the adjacent lower borders of 

 Pennsylvania, southward. 



10. L. Kalmii, L. Stem mostly low (4'-18'high) minutely angled; 

 pedic<-ls fliiform, not exceeding the linear or setaceous bracts but as long us the flower, 

 minutely 2-bracteoleile or 2-glundular above the middle ; calyx-tube top-shaped or obo- 

 void with an acute base, fully half the length of the lobes, in fruit rather longer 

 than they, smooth, covering the whole pod ; corolla bright light blue, 4"- 5" 

 long. — Wet limestone rocks and banks. Northern New England to Wisconsin 

 and northward along the St. Lawrence and Great Lakes, and through Ne\^f 

 York southward to Lancaster, Penn. [Prof. Porter). 



11. L. C^nbyi, n. sp. Stem strict (l°-2°high), minutely angled; pedi- 

 cels shorter titan the bracts and mostly shorter than the flower, minutely roughened 

 under a lens ; brucllets none ; calyx-tithe top-shaped, acute at the base, and only half 

 the length of the lobes (which, with the linear leaves, arc sparsely glandular-den- 

 ticulate along the margins), in fruit becoming oblong, covering the whole pod ; 

 corolla deep blue (fu/iy .')" long), more or less bearded in the throat. — Wet places, 

 pine barrens of New Jersey, especially at Quaker Bridge, Wm. M. Canby, (J. 

 E. Smith, &c. (Also South Carolina, M. A. Curtis.) Aug., Sept. — Leaves 1', 

 rarely 1|' long, numerous, gradually diminishing in size up to the raceme, the 

 largest 2" wide. Pod near/y 3" long. 



•»- -t- 1- H- Stem simple froM a perennial root, and nearly leafless, except at or near 

 the base : flowers in a simple loose raceme, light blue: leaves flashy : calyx-tube 

 acute at the base, top-shaped: auricles none. 

 • 12. Ij. palud6sa, Nutt. Nearly smooth; stem slender (10-2phigh); 

 leaves thidish but flat, scattered near the base, Umar-spatulate or oblong-linearj 

 glandular-denticulate, mostly tapering into a petiole; lower lip of the corolla 

 bearded in the middle ; calyx-tube about half the length of the short lobes, be- 

 coming hemispherical in fruit. — Wet bogs, Delaware [Natiall) and southward. 

 — Corolla 5" -6" long. 



