412 175. Lobelia. 38. CAMPANULACE^. Plex.cal. 



B. LoBELiJE. Flowers irregular, cut deepest on the lower 

 side, generally become resupinate ; stigma bearded, 

 completely formed before the anthers burst. 



V. 175. LOBELIA. Plumier. Lohel. 



Calyx 5-toothed ; corolla irregular, becoming resupinate, 

 deeply cut below, 3-lobed above ; stamens 5 ; Jilaments dis- 

 tinct; anthers connected into a tube, bearded at the top ; 

 stig77ia nicked; capsule 1^-celled. — Stern upright; leaves 

 often radical ; flowers peduncled, in racemes ; Iractea 1 at 

 the base of each peduncle ; juice milky. 



1. Lolelia lacustris. Lake lohel. 

 Leaves mostly radical, linear, 2-celled, not in the least 



cut; scape simple, nearly naked, few-flowered, racemose. 



Gladiolus lacustris Dortmanni, Rail Syn. 287 *, 1. 

 Gladiolus lacustris, Ger.em. 105,4. 



Gladiolus lacustris Clusii, sive lencojum palustrc, florc subcacruleo 

 Bauhini, Park. 1250. 



Lobelia Dortmanni, Lin. S. P. 1310. 

 Lobelia lacustris, Salisb. Prod. 

 Water sword-flag. 



Lakes; perennial; July. 



Root white; stem round, hollow; leaves all under water, 

 bent h?ic\i', flowers drooping, blue; bractece ovate, short; 

 lohes of the calyx shorter than the tube of the corolla. 



2. Lolelia urens. Stinging lolel. 

 Stem rather erect; lower leaves reverse-ovate, denticu- 

 lated ; upper leaves lanceolate, serrate; flowers in racemes. 



Lobelia urens, Lin. S. P. 1321. 

 Lobelia verbenaefolia, Salisb. Prod, 129. 



Mountainous meadows; peren.; August and September. 



Root fibrous ; stem branched, bluntly angular, rather 

 leafy ; racemes many-flowered ; flowers 1-rowed, violet ; 

 IractecB bristleshape, rough ; loles of the calyx retuse, as 

 long as the tube. — Plant acrid, especially the root. 



Fam. IV. 39. COMPOSITiE. 



Flowers collected into a calathide seated on a clinanthus : 

 calathide girt with a pericline composed of many scales, in 

 a single, double, or multiple series; scales mostly free, 

 sometimes soldered ; pericline often surrounded with an in- 

 volucrum of many verticillate bracteae attached to the base; 

 clina7U hi/ s naked or with appendices, flat or convex ; cala- 

 thide of 1, 'i, or '3 sorts of flowers, mostly solitary, some- 



