768 LOBELIACEAE (LOBELIA FAMILY^ 



the calyx triangular, half the lensrth of the bell-shaped nearly white corolla (5-8 

 mm. long); capsule erect. — Wet grassy ground, Me. to Neb., s. to Ga., Ky., and 

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



8. C. uliginbsa Rydb. Suffer; leaves linear or elongate-lanceolate ; flowers 

 chieiay borne on simple naked erect or ascending leafless peduncles (2.5-5.5 cm. 

 long); corolla hluish, 10-12 m?w. Zongr. — Meadows and wet shores, N. B. to 

 N. Y., la., and Sask. July, Aug. ^ o ^ ^ v.- x. 



9. C. divaricata Michx. Very smooth ; stem loosely branched, 8-9 dm. high; 

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

 flowers numerous in a large compound panicle ; calyx-lobes awl-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 Ivy., 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. montIna L. Annual or biennial, 2-5 dm. high, simple or branchmg ; 

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

 roadsides, especially about Newport, R. I.; also sparingly elsewhere, from Mass. 

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



LOBELlACEAE (Lobelia Family) 



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

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

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

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

 anatropous, with a small 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, the pedicels much shorter than the leaf-like bracts ; the 

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

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



* * Flowers blue, or blue variegated with white. 



+- Flowers rather large {corolla-tube 1-1.3 cm. long), spicate-racemose ; stems 



leafy, 0.3-1 m. high; perennial. 



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



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

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

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

 hirsute, the sinuses with conspicuous deflexed auricles, the short tube hemispheri- 

 cal. —J^ow grounds. Me. to Out., westw. and south w.; rare eastw. 



