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LOBELIA RAMOSA. 
BRANCHING LOBELIA. 
EXOGEN.E, oR DICOTYLEDONEA. 
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NATURAL ORDER, LOBELIACES, 
CALYCIFLORE, Artificial division® i PENTANDRIA, 
oF to which : MONOGYNIA, 
DECANDOLLE. - this Plant belongs. OF LINNEUS. 
No. 93. 
GENUS. Lospenta. Lrwnevs. Catycis tubus obconicus, turbinatus, ob- 
longus; aut hemisphzricus, limbus quinquepartitus. Connex tubulosa, tubo 
cto dorso longitudinaliter fisso, limbo quinquepartito bilabiato subbilabiato 
aut demum unilabiato, labio inferiore trilobo is duabus superi- 
oribus erectis aut cum labio connive NTHER apice omnes aut m 
inf b Stiema bilobum, lobis demum exsertis divari 
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orbiculatis subtus annulo pilorum collectorum cinctis. Capsuza calycis tubo 
conformis bilocularis apice loculicido-bivalvis, valvis ultra calycis tubum pro- 
uctis. Semrna creberrima, sear Presi: Prodromus Monographie Lo- 
beliacearum, p. 11, sub Rapun 
SPECIES. Losers ramosa. BenrHam. CAvLe ramoso subtereti te 
cente, foliis inferioribus pinnatisectis segmentis foliisque he linearibu 
lanceolatisve subdentatis, ramulis pedunculiformibus uniflori abe ane 
corollz labii inferioris lacinia intermedia latissima vix hescomernelt lateralibus 
dimidiatis, antheris omnibus barbatis, capsula obliqua hine demum gi 
CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, LoBELIA. TUBE OF THE CALYX ob- 
conical, turbinate, oblong or hemispherical, limb four-cleft. Coro1- 
LA tubular, the tube split longitudinally on the upper side, the limb 
five-cleft, the divisions more or less arranged in two lips, or at length 
spread out into one, the lower lip hanging with three divisions, the 
two upper divisions sometimes erect, sometimes joined to the lower. 
ANTHERS all or at least two of them bearded at the top. Stigma two- 
lobed, the divisions at length exserted, spreading, orbicular, and sur- 
rounded at the base by a ring of collected hairs. Capsute filling 
up the tube of the calyx and of the same shape, bilocular, opening in 
two valves at the apex across the dissepiment, the valves prominent 
- beyond the tube of the calyx. SrEps minute, very numerous. 
DESCRIPTION OF THE Species, LOBELIA RAMOSA. A much branch- 
ed perennial, growing to the heighth of two or three feet, with slender, 
erect, or spreading branches, cylindrical or slightly angular, more or 
‘less covered with short patent or reflexed hairs. Lower LEAVES deep- 
_ ly divided into lanceolate or linear segments which have themselves 
often two or three deep teeth or lobes, upper Jeaves nearly entire or 
quite so, all of them green on both sides, with short scattered hairs, 
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