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LOBELIA micranTHa. 
Small-flowered Lobelia. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA.—Nar. Onv. CAMPANULACES. 
Gen. Cuar.—Corolla tubo hinc fisso (rard integro); limbo ti OB 
Anthere connate. Stigma bilobum (nunc indivisum). 
laris (raro trilocularis), apice supero bivalvi—Herbee, vel Dfitim, gen 
reeque lactescentes. Folia alterna, integra vel laciniata, raro fistulosa. Flores 
racemosi, terminales vel axillares, solitarii, pedicellis bibracteatis vel nudis. 
Anthere sepius barbate.—Bnr. 
Div. I.—Pedunculi azillares uniflori. Herbacew. 
Lobelia micrantha; glabra erecta, caule acute triquetro, foliis ovato-ro- 
tundatis repando-dentatis subpetiolatis, pedunculis folio longioribus, 
capsula obovata. 
Root small, fibrous, annual. Stem 4~6 inches high, erect, acutely 3-angled, 
with the angles subulate, quite glabrous, sometimes simple, more fre- 
quently branched near the base, the branches spreading, from 1 to # 
inches in length. Leaves alternate ; the lower ones nearly orbicular, the 
upper ones broadly ovate, the supreme ones ovate, all glabrous or very 
slightly pilose above, with their margins repando-dentate, the base atte~ 
nuated into a shortish foot-stalk. - 
From the axils of the leaves, towards the upper part of the stem, arise the 
— ee about an inch Jong, and bearing single 
‘ Cape gh sistas green, with 5 BT subulate segments. Corolla ex- 
sips Amen Gare aaa escent. — Tbe eylindviea, slit down 
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