304 LXXVI. LOBELIACEJE. LOBELIA. 



sessile ; fls. in a terminal, bracted, secund raceme ; sta. longer than the corolla. 

 A tall species of superior beauty, frequent in meadows and along streams, 

 Can. to Car., W. to 111. ! Stem 2 4f high, often quite glabrous as well as the 

 whole plant. Leaves 2 4' by 8 15", usually denticulate. Flowers ^on short 

 pedicels, few or numerous, in a superb, nodding raceme. Bracts line'ar-subu- 

 late, much shorter than the flowers. Corolla deep scarlet, near 2' in length. 

 Jl. Aug. f 



/?. Whole plant glabrous; Ivs. entire. Potsdam, N. Y. ! 



y. Cor. white, the segments rather narrower. Mass. ! 



2. L. INFLATA. Indian Tobacco. 



St. hairy, branched, erect ; Ivs. ovate-lanceolate, sessile, serrate, pilose ; 

 caps, inflated. () In fields and woods, Can. and U. S. Root fibrous. Stem 

 erect, very rough, angular, simple, becoming branched in proportion to the 

 luxuriance of its growth, 10 15' high. Leaves elliptical, sessile, hairy and 

 veiny. Flowers in leafy spikes, axillary, peduncled. Corolla small, pale blue, 

 leaving an oval, turgid capsule in the calyx. July Sept. This plant is ren- 

 dered famous by the Thomsonian physicians, in whose practice it appears to 

 be too indiscriminately used. Its specific action, as above stated, is that of a 

 violent emetic. In small doses it is powerfully expectorant. To its salivating 

 property is probably owing the driveling of horses in autumn. 



3. L. DORTMANNA. Dortmann's or Water Lobelia. 



Lvs. submerged, linear, entire, fleshy, 2-celled, obtuse ; scape simple, 

 nearly naked ; fls. in a terminal raceme, remote, pedicellate, nodding. QJ. A 

 curious aquatic, growing in ponds, N. States to Ga., the flowers only rising 

 above the water. Stem erect, hollow, nearly leafless, long, bearing above the 

 surface a raceme of 3 or 4 remote, pedicellate flowers. Leaves mostly radical, 

 spreading, obtuse, submerged, having 2 longitudinal grooves. Flowers droop- 

 ing, pale blue. July. 



4. L. SYLPHILITICA. Blue Cardinal flower. 



St. erect, simple ; Ivs. oblong-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, unequally 

 serrate, somewhat hirsute ; roc. leafy ; cal. hispidly ciliate, with the sinuses re- 

 flexed. 7J- A fine, showy plant, but inferior in beauty to L. cardinalis, growing 

 in wet meadows and along streams, U. States and Can., more common in the 

 Western States. Stem erect, 2 4f high, simple, angular, with short hairs. 

 Leaves lanceolate, broader at base, acute at each end, somewhat erosely den- 

 tate, pilose. Flowers large, on short peduncles, each solitary in the axil of an 

 ovate-lanceolate bract. Corolla bright blue or purplish. Capsule half supe- 

 rior. July. 



5. L. PUBERULA. Michx. Downy Lobelia. 



Pubescent ; st. erect, simple ; Ivs. ovate-oblong or elliptical, obtuse, sessile, 

 repand-denticulate ; roc. spicate, secund ; cal. ciliate, the segments longer than 

 the tube of the corolla. % Native of mountains, &c., N. Y. to Ga. Stem 12 

 30' high, scarcely furrowed. Leaves covered with a short, downy or silky pubes- 

 cence, 1 2' inches in length and half as wide, the lower ones broadest towards 

 the end. Flowers large, on very short pedicels, each solitary in the axil of an 

 ovate-lanceolate bract, forming a somewhat one-sided raceme, leafy below. 

 Calyx hairy at base. Corolla of a bright purplish-blue. July. 



6. L. SPICATA. Lam. (L. Claytoniana. MX. L. pallida. MuM.} Clay- 

 ton's Lobelia. Puberulent ; st. erect, simple ; Ivs. oblong, sessile, mostly 



obtuse, obscurely denticulate, radical ones spatulate ; fls. (small) in a long, 

 slender raceme ; pedicels as long as the flowers or entire, subulate bracts ; sep. 

 subulate, as long as the tube of the corolla. Ij. Fields and prairies, Can. and 

 U. S. Stem 1J 2f high, somewhat grooved, few-leaved, ending in a long, 

 wand-like raceme. Flowers numerous, crowded, each axillary to a short, incon- 

 spicuous bract. Corolla pale blue, the palate bidentate. Aug. 



7. L. KALMIA. KalmJs Lobelia. 



Smooth ; st. simple, slender, erect ; radical Ivs. spatulate, stem Ivs. linear- 

 lanceolate, obtuse, remotely denticulate; roc. lax, few-flowered, leafy ; fls. pe- 

 dicelled. A small and delicate species, inhabiting the rocky banks of streams, 



