LOBELIA FAMILY 



No other flower of the North kindles such a flame in the thicket 

 as the Cardinal Lobelia. When transferred to the garden it for- 

 gets its swampy home, adjures the tangle, takes kindly to drier 

 soil, and when properly cultivated attains a greater height with 

 longer spikes of flame than it ever achieves in the wild. 



The blossom is one of slender type for a Lobelia. The corolla 

 tube is long and slender; the corolla lobes are narrow and pointed; 

 the filament tube extends far out beyond the corolla throat; and 

 the slender style bears the stigma considerably beyond the ring of 

 purple anthers. 



GREAT LOBELIA. BLUE LOBELIA 



Lobelia syphilitica. 



Stem. — Erect, angular, leafy, one to four feet high. 



Leaves. — Alternate, oblong-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, unequally 

 serrate. 



Great Lobelia. 

 LobSia SyphilUica. 



F/owew.— Borne in a long, dense, leafy spike which is six to eighteen 

 inches in length, bright-blue marked with white. 



Ca/j/a;.— Hairy, tubular, five-cleft, lobes eared at base; reflexed. 



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