PLATE CCCXL. 
LOBELIA GRACILIS. 
Slender-ftemed Lobelia. 
CLASS XIX. ORDER VI. 
SYNGENESIA MONOGAMIA. Tips united. Flowers simple. 
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Cup 5-cleft. Bloffom one petal, irregular. 
Capfule beneath, 2 or 3-celled. 
Catyx 5-fidus. Corolla monopetala, irregularis. 
Capfula infera, 2-feu 3-locularis. 
* See Lopeia PiniFoLta, P].CCLXXIII. Vol. IV. 
ane SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
: a Lobelia foliis inferioribus ovatis, finuatis, fu- Lobelia with the lower leaves egg-fhaped and 
ioe perioribus lanceolatis, dentatis ; petalis fcollopped, the upper ones lance-fhaped 
duobus minoribus barbatis; floribus {pi- and toothed; thetwofmaller petals bearded; 
catis; ftigmatibus bifidis. flowers grow in fpikes; fummits two-cleft. 
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1. A Bloffom cut open, with the chives in their place, magnified. 
a © : 2. The Cup, Seed-bud, Shaft and Summit; the Summit detached 
‘ and magnified. 
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was raifed in 1801, from 
drawing was made 
ds freely, as do 
and 
Tus moft delicate little plant, of which our figure reprefents the whole, 
Cape feeds, fent by Mr. Niven from thence, for the Clapham gardens; where our 
this year, 1803, in the month of Auguft. It is an annual plant, producing its feeds 
moft fpecies of this genus, which fhould be fown in the month of March, in light fandy peat, 
tranfplanted about May. 
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