298 PENTANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Inipatiens. 



sule elliptic-oblong, with 5 angles, crowned, a little below the 

 summit, with the upright calyx. 



2. L. urens. Acrid Lobelia. 



Stem nearly upright. Lower leaves obovate, slightly toothed ; 

 upper lanceolate, serrated. Clusters terminal. 



L. urens. Lmn. Sp. PI. 1321. Willd.v. \.[)46. Fl. Br. 243. Engl. 



Bot. V. 14. i. 953. Curt. Land. fuse. 6. t. 63. Dicks. U. Sicc.fasc. 



16.9. Bull.Fr.t.9. 

 Rapunculus galeatus blsesensis, seu solonlensis, flore violaceo mi- 



nore. Moris, v. 2. 467. sect. 5. t. 5.f. 56. 

 Rapuntium urens soloniense. Bocc. Sic. 21. t. 11. y. 3. 

 Draba flore caeruleo galeato. Bauh. Pin. 110. Prodr. 53. 



On bushy heaths in Devonshire. 



On Shute Common, between Axminster and Honiton. Air Neiv- 

 berry. On the slope of Kilmington hill, two miles from Axmin- 

 ster ; Lord Webb Seymour. Curtis. Near Ottery St. Mary. 

 Miss Burgess. 



Perennial. August, September. 



Root fibrous. Stem a foot or more in height, branched, leafy, an- 

 gular, roughish, not hairy. Leaves alternate, oblong, with shal- 

 low, irregTilar, tooth-like serratures, nearly smooth j the lower- 

 most stalked. Clusters erect, long, simple, lax, with short, 

 roughish partial stalks, and linear-lanceolate bracteas. Calyx 

 and germen rough. Corolla light purplish blue, downy, with a 

 pale ribbed tube not an inch in length. .Anthers incurved, downy 

 externally, blackish. Caps, of 2 cells. The whole herb is milky, 

 fetid, and very acrid. 



110. IMPATIENS. Balsam. 



Linn. Gen. 458. Fl. Br. 243. Riv. Telrap. Irr. t.\2\. Lam. t. 725. 

 Balsamina. Juss. 270. Tourn. t. 235. Riv. Tetrap. Irr. t. 120. 

 GcETtn. t. 113. 



Nat. Ord. Corydales. Linn. 24. Akin to Gerania, Juss. 73. 

 Perhaps allied in some points to Corchorus. 



Cal. inferior, small, of 2 roundish, pointed, concave, lateral, 

 rather unequal, coloured, deciduous leaves. Co)\ of 5 

 unequal petals, ringent; upper one roundish, flat, erect, 

 slightly 3-cleft, pointed in the middle, constituting the 

 upper lip ; lower pair very large, reflexed, dilated out- 

 wards, obtuse, irregular, constituting the lower lip ^ inter- 

 mediate pair opposite, at the base of the upper lip, some- 

 times united to the lower petals, sometimes wanting. Nec- 

 tary of 1 leaf, tubular, oblique at the mouth, whose upper 

 edge i^ attached to the receptacle, tapering at the base 



