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The specific name of this species was given in honour of Dortmann, a Dutch 

 apothecary, who did good service to Botany. It is sometimes called the Cardinal 

 flower i but this name is more appropriately given to the species with red flowers, in 



which a resemblance may be fancied in colour and shape to a cardinal's hat, 



SPECIES II.— LOBELIA URENS. Linn. 

 Tlate DCCCLXII. 

 Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 584. 



Radical leaves oblong-oblanceolate or obovate, sub-petiolate ; 

 stem-leaves narrowly oblong, sessile, tbe uppermost ones strap- 

 shaped, oblong; all flat, irregularly serrate - dentate, with tbc 

 teeth callous-pointed, glabrous above, usually puberulent beneath. 

 Pedicels shorter than the bracts. Flowers sub-erect, in elongated 

 rather dense racemes. Calyx puberulent, clavate-cvlindrical, the 

 tube scarcely as long as the segments. Corolla much longer 

 than the calyx, puberulent, split above, with the two upper lobes 

 linear-lanceolate, ascending; under lip as long as the upper, 3-cleft, 

 with the lobes lanceolate, acute. Filaments free at the base. 

 Anthers sub-exserted, pilose, the 2 lower ones bearded at the 

 apex. 



On bushy heaths. Very rare. " At the bottom of Kilmington 

 Hill or Shute Common (Axminster end), on a part of the heath 

 facing the George public-house, but on the other side of the 

 road, growing amongst tufts of short furze or heath in tolerable 

 plenty, 1S3G. The inhabitants know the plant from the visits of 

 the curious. I am told by Mr. Abraham it occurs scattered over 

 Woodbury Hill, and I found one specimen at a considerable dis- 

 tance from the general station." — (Dr. Bromfield, in New Botanist's 

 Guide, p. 551.) Also said to be found by the Rev. J. Dix near 

 Ashford, Kent ; but it seems doubtful if more than a single root 

 was observed. 



England. Perennial. Autumn. 



Steml to 2 feet high, simple or paniculately branched. Radical 

 leaves almost in a rosette, 1 to 3 inches long ; stem-leaves becoming 

 smaller and less attenuated at the base in proportion as they arc 

 placed higher on the stem. Racemes simple, that which terminates 

 the main stem much larger than those of the branches. Bracts 

 linear-acute, about three times as long as the short pedicels, densely 

 puberulent, herbaceous, tipped with red. Flowers ^ to § inch 

 long. Tube of the corolla funnel-shaped-cylindrical, twice as long 

 as the calyx-segments ; limb pale-blue. Capsule erect, the point 



