124 Lobelia Kalmii. 



differing very much from each other. The greater length of the 

 peduncles and larger size of the flowers, seem to he the most con- 

 spicuous circumstances in which a difference is ohservahle from 

 the variety p. The relative situation of the scale like hracts, (which 

 rather appear to be glands,) so accurately pointed out and described 

 by Mr. Nuttall, does seem to be tolerably constant ; yet a close exa- 

 mination of many specimens has shown, that it is by no means an 

 invariable distinction. I am therefore confirmed in the opinion ex- 

 pressed several years ago in the Compendium Florae Philadelphia, 

 that the present plant is a mere variety of the L. Kalmii. 



No. 2. fig. 1. Represents the lower portion of the plant, severed at 

 the mark -f from the upper portion, of the prevailing size. 



Fig. 2. Stamens and pistil. 



3. Corolla, opened artificially, the natural size. 



