Lobelia. LOBELIACE^. % 



inferior oblong-turbinate capsule: seeds oblong-obov^ate, rugose-reticulated. — Man. ed. 5. 

 284. — Wet swamps, New Jersey, Delaware, and S. Carolina : fl. late summer. Corolla 

 about 4 lines long. Capsule 2 lines long. 



L. Kalmii, L. Biennial or perhaps perennial from small rosulate offsets, a ^an to a foot 

 or more high, often paniculately brandling, glabrous and smooth or below slightly hairy : 

 radical and lowest cauline leaves oblanceolate or spatulate, and the upper linear, an inch 



• or two long : racemes loosely and mostly few-flowered, often leafy at base or panicled : 

 pedicels equalling or longer than the flowers, mostly 2-glandular or minutely bracteolate 

 above the middle : calyx-lobes subulate, a little longer than the broadly turbinate tube : 

 capsule shorter and blmiter at base than in the preceding, or even roundish, wholly inferior : 

 seeds oblong, reticulated. — Bot. Mag. t. 2238. — Wet banks. Lower Canada and Hudson's 

 Bay to L. Winnipeg", and to S. New York and Penu., but rare southward. 



L. Nuttallii, Roera. & Schult. Annual, or at most biemiial, very slender, a foot or two 

 high, simple or sparingly and loosely branclied above : leaves an inch or less in length ; the 

 radical ones oblong or oval ; the others from lanceolate to linear, denticulate-glandular : 

 racemes slender : pedicels mostly longer than the bract and shorter than the flower ; the 

 minute bractlets, if any, near the base : calyx-lobes subulate, considerably shorter than the 

 tube of the pale blue corolla : capsule short and broad, obtuse or rounded at base, half 

 superior : seeds obovate-oval, roughish, these as well as the flowers only half the size of 

 those of L. Canhyi. — Torr. Fl. N. Y. i. 240. L. gracilis, Nutt. Gen. ii. 77. L. Kalmii, var. 

 gracilis, Bart. Fl. i. t. 34. — Moist pine barrens. New Jersey and Penn. to Georgia. Whole 

 corolla 3 or at most 4 lines long. — To this belongs the Rapuntium minimum Jiore pallida 

 caa-uleo ; Clayt., Gronov. Fl. Virg. ed. 2. 134. 



= == Leaves chiefly ovate or oblong and more or less serrate or toothed: root annual: stems 



branching. 

 a. Capsule not inflated, partly or sometimes mainly superior: pedicels of the pedunculate raceme 



slender : leaves mostly petioled. 



L. Cliffortiana, L. Glabrous or slightly and minutely hairy, a foot or so high: leaves 

 ovate or slightly cordate, obtusely toothed or repand, petioled, or the upper lanceolate and 

 sessile : pedicels filiform, longer than the flowers : calyx-tube obconical ; the lobes subulate 

 and shorter than the tube of the corolla : capsule ovoid, obtuse, nearly the upper half free : 

 seeds oval, very smooth and shining. — Hort. Cliff, t. 26, & Sp., excl. syn.-Gronov. ; Michx. Fl. 

 ii. 152 ? (Therefore L. Michauxii, Nutt. Gen.l )— Occasionally met with in the S. Atlantic 

 States, in waste or cult, grounds : probably introduced from Trop. Amer. 



Var. Xalapensis differs in the fully two-thu-ds free and rather more oblong capsule 

 (which does not, as in L. micrantha, much exceed the calyx-lobes), and the stems are weaker 

 or diffuse.^!,. Xalapensis, HBK. — Peninsula of Florida (Canhy, E. Palmer, &c.) ; perhaps 

 introduced from W. Ind. and Mex. 



Var. brach^poda, a remarkable and distinct form, with cauline leaves from obovate- 

 spatulate to lanceolate, and pedicels (2 or at most 3 lines long) rather shorter than the 

 flower or the capsule, which is that of genuine L. Cliffortiana. — L. Berlandieri, Torr. Mex. 

 Bound. 107, hardly of A.DC. — S. W. Texas, Wright, Parry. Adjacent parts of Mexico, 

 Berlandier, &c. (No. 3177 of the latter may be L. Berlandieri, A.DC, but is from Mata- 

 moras, not Tampico : it has long filiform pedicels and seems to be a depauperate form of 

 the true L. Cliffortiana.) 



L. Feayana, Gray. Slender, a span high, diffusely branched from the base, glabrous 

 througliout: leaves small (a quarter to half inch long), repand-denticulate, roundish or 

 obovate, or the small uppermost spatulate or lanceolate and sessile : raceme loosely 4-10- 

 flowered : pedicels as long as the flower, twice or thrice the length of the subulate bract : 

 calyx-tube and capsule broadly obconical ; the latter two-thirds inferior, its free apex about 

 the length of the subulate calyx-lobes ; these only half the length of the tube of the bright 

 blue corolla: anthers glabrous (except the bearded tips of the shorter ones) : seeds oblong, 

 with a rough cellular coat. — Proc. Am. Acad. xii. 60. — E. & S. Florida, Dr. Feay, Dr. E. 

 Palmer, Mrs. Treat. Tube of the corolla under 2 lines long. Pedicels 2 to 4 lines long. 

 b. Capsule inflated, wholly inferior, longer than the pedicels : leaves sessile. 



L. inflata, L. (Indian Tobacco.) Pubescent, a foot or two high, branching above, and 

 the spike-like but loose racemes paniculate : leaves ovate or oblong (an inch or two long), 

 obtusely "toothed, veiny ; the upper forming foliaceous bracts : uppermost bracts linear- 



