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oval brown fhining feeds. The fioreis in the 

 centre of the head are often abortive. The 

 young plants yield a miiky juice. 

 Linnceus fays that bees arc fond of the flowers. 



LOBELIA. Gen, pi 1006. 



CaL 5-fidus. Corolla i-petala, irregularis. Caps. 

 infera, 2 s. 3-locularis. 

 dortmannai LOBELIA foliis linearibus bilocularibiis integcrri- 

 mis, caule fubnudo. Sp. pi. 13 18. {Pet, herb. t. 

 67,/. 7. Oed, Dan, t, ^^. i^fig- noft.) 



Water Lobelia, Water Gladiole. Anglis. 



It is very frequent in almoft every frefh-water loch 

 in Scotland., and particularly in the highlands 

 and weftern ifles, growing near the edges of the 

 water. 1;. Vil. IX. 



The leaves fpread in a circle about the root, and 

 grow under the water : they are about two inches 

 long, linear, flattlfh, and generally a little re- 

 flexed at the ends, and if cut tranfverfely are 

 found to confift of two longitudinal and paral- 

 lel hollow tubes, which is very remarkable ; the 

 ftalk is erc6t, round, hollow, from afoot to two 

 feet high, and almoft naked : the flowering part 

 raifed out of the water. The flowers arc white, 

 with a flight tinge of blue or purple, eight or 

 ten in number, growing in a thin fpike : each is 

 is monopetalous and ringent, divided into five 

 fegments at the rim ; l\i^ two upper fegments 

 narrow, lanceolate, and a little reflexed : the 

 three- others broader and oval : the capiule is 



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