LOBELIACEAE 585 



3. Jasione L. 

 1. J. montana L. In waste places: R. I. and Conn. Adventive 

 from Europe. 



Rare as a waif in Conn, and near the City of New York. 



LOBELIACEAE 

 1. Lobelia L. 



Aquatic; stems simple, nearly naked; flowers light blue. I. L. Dortmanna, 



Terrestrial plants of wet or dry soil; stems leafy. 

 Corolla-tube 10-25 mm. long. 



Flowers bright scarlet, rarely white; corolla-tube 20-25 



mm. long. 2. L. cardinalis. 



Flowers blue, white, or blue and white; corolla-tube 10-15 

 mm. long. 

 Leaves glabrous or sparingly pubescent. 3. L. syphilitica. 



Leaves densely pubcrulent. 4. L. puberula. 



Corolla-tube only 4-8 mm. long. 



Stems mostly simple; flowers in terminal, spike-like 



racemes. 5. L. spicata. 



Stems mostly paniculately branched; flowers in loose 

 racemes. 

 Stem stout, pubescent; leaves ovate or oblong, den- 

 tate. 6. L. inflata. 

 Stem slender, glabrous; stem-leaves narrow, the basal 

 wider. 

 Pedicels mostly longer than the flowers, 2-brac- 



teolate near the middle. 7. L. Kalmii. 



Pedicels not longer than flowers, not bracteolate 

 or only so at base. 

 Sepals usually spreading; corolla 5-7 mm. 



long. 8. L. Nuttallii. 



Sepals erect and sometimes incurved; corolla 



9-1 1 mm. long. 9. L. Canbyi. 



i. L. Dortmanna L. Borders of ponds: N. J. and Pa. to N. S., 

 N. B., the N. W. Terr, and B. Col. Also in Europe. 

 Conn. Rare near the coast, perhaps wanting except in New- 

 London Co., increasing northwestward. 

 N. Y. Reported, but not definitely known from L. I., otherwise 

 only from Westchester, Putnam and Orange counties, northward. 

 N. J. Warren, Morris, Sussex and Passaic counties. 

 Pa. Pike, Monroe and Luzerne counties. 



Tertiary, o: Cretaceous, 0: Older Formations; increasing north- 

 ward. Not south of the moraine. 1 17-187 days. Sea level- 

 4,020 ft. 



