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Low grounds, common. July, Aug. Perennial- by offsets. Stem 2 to 3 feet 

 high, often quite smooth. Leaves 2 to 4 inches long, % to 1]/^ inch wMe, usually 

 denticulate. Flower* few or numerous, in a nodding raceme, very showy, and in- 

 tens( ly red. Corolla \y z iucU iu length. 



* * Flowers blue, or white. 



2. L. syphilitica, L. Blue Cardinal Flower. 



Stem erect, somewhat hairy and simple ; leaves orate or ovate-lanceolate, acute, 

 slightly toothed, somewhat hirsute; raceme or spike leafy; calyx hispidly-ciliato 

 with the sinuses reflexed. 



Vet meadows and along streams, common. Aug. Per. A handsome plant, 1 

 to li l'eet high. Leaves broader at base, acute at each end, pilose. Calyx lobes half 

 the length" of the corolla, the obtuse reflexed auricles shorter than the tube. 

 Flowers large on short peduncles, each solitary in the axil of an ovate-lanceolate 

 bract. Cbroll < bright blue or purplish, rarely white. I found the white variety 

 crowing in company with the deep blue in a meadow near Mooresburg, Montour 

 Co. 



3. L. puberula, Michx. Downy Lobelia, 



Minutely downy pubescent; slem erect, simple; leaves ovate or oblong, obtuse, 

 denticulate with glandular teeth ; flower* in a one-sided spike, the leafy bracts- 

 ovate, acute, serrate, as long as the flower; calyx hirsute at base the lanceolate 

 dilate segments as long as the tube of the corolla. 



Moist grounds, rare. Aug., Sept. Per. SI* ml to-l^feetf high, scarcely furrow- 

 ed. Leaves 1 to 2 inches long, and half as wide, the lower ones broadest towards 

 the end, covered with a short down or silky pubescence. Flowers large on very 

 ghort pedicels, iu a one-sided raceme. Corolla of a bright purplish blue. 



4. L. spicata, Lam. /Spiked Lobelia,- 



Somewhat pubescent ; slem slender, and very simple; leaves obtuse, pubescent 

 nearly entire ; radical leaves spatulate or oblong, those of the stem oblong-lanceo- 

 late; raceme spiked oue-sided, elongated; segments of the calyx subulate, nearly 

 us long as the tube of the corolla. 



Open woods and fields, common. July, Aug. Per. Stem 1 to 2 feet high, few- 

 leaved, ending in a long wand-like raceme. Flowers numerous, crowded, each ax- 

 illary to a short bract, pale-blue. 



5. L. inflata, L. Indian Tobacco. Eye-bright. 



Ilairy; stem low, panicled, branched above ; leaves ovate-lanceolate, unequally 

 toothed, the lower obtuse, sessile; racemes leafy, somewhat paniculate ; capsule in- 

 flated, ovoid. 



Fields and woods, common. July — Sept. Biennial; Stem 1 to 2 feet high, becom- 

 ing branched in proportion to the luxurience of its growth. Flowers small, pale 

 blue, on pedicels much shorter than the pointed bracts ; lobes of the smooth calyx 

 as long as the corolla. This plant is much used in the Thompsonian practice of 

 Medicine, and is an invaluable emetic, as well as a powerful expectorant, seldom 

 failing to give almost instantaneous relief in attacks of croup, asthma, Ac. 



2. CLINTONIA, Douglass. 



Calyx 5-sepaled, subequal. Corolla 2-lipped, lower lip 

 ouneate, 3-lobed ; upper erect, 2-parted. Stamens incurved, 

 united into a tube. Capsule silique-forni, dry, chartaceous, 

 1-celled, many-seeded, dehiscent by 3 strap-shaped valves. — 

 Procumbent annual herbs, with minute leaves and axillary solitary; 

 flower*. 



