90 CLASS V. ORDER f. 



tuse at the end, tapering at base, slightly toothed or crenate, 

 pubescent at the edge and under side, sessile. Flowers in a long 

 terminal spike, on short peduncles, blue. — Moist pastures and 

 road sides. — July. — Perennial. 



Lobelia Kalmii. L. Kalms Lobelia. 



Slender erect, simple; radical leaves spatiilate; 

 stem leaves linear, very slightly toothed ; flowers 

 alternate, remote, pedicelled. 



Found in the western parts of the state. More slender and 

 delicate than any of the others. Flowers blue. — July. 



Lobelia inflata. L. Indian Tobacco. 



American Medical Botany, PI. xix. 



Branching and hairy. Leaves serrate, ovate; cap- 

 sules turgid. 



This plant varies in height from six inches to two or three 

 feet. The small plants are nearly simple, the large ones much 

 branched. Root fibrous. Stem erect, in the full sized plant 

 much branched, angular, very hairy. Leaves scattered, sessile, 

 oval, serrate, veiny and hairy. Flowers in spikes or racemes, 

 pedunculated, each one in the axil of a small leaf. Segments of 

 the calyx linear, acute, standing on the germ, which is oval 

 and striated. Corolla bluish purple, the tube prismatic and 

 cleft above, the segments spreading, acute, the two upper ones 

 lanceolate, the three lower ones oval. Anthers collected into 

 an oblong, curved body, purple ; filaments white. Style filiform ; 

 stigma curved and inclosed by the anthers. Capsules two celled, 

 turgid, oval, compressed, ten angled, covered with the calyx. 

 Seeds numerous, small, oblong, brown. — Fields and road sides. — 

 Midsummer. — Annual. 



The whole plant operates as a violent emetic. 

 Lobelia Dohtmanna. L. Water Lobelia. 



Leaves Hnear, two celled, entire; stem nearly 

 naked. L. 



A very singular aquatic plant. The leaves grow in a single 

 tuft at the bottom of the water. They are from one to three 



