Claytonianas 
Kalmit. 
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CLASS XV.—MONADELPHIA. 
ORDERI. PENTANDRIA. 
305. LOBELIA. Gen. pl. 1363. (Lobeliacee.) 
Calix 5-cleft. Corolla monopetalous, irregu- 
Jar, on the upper side cleft nearly toits base. 
Stamina united into a tube. Stigma 2- 
lobed; involucrate! involucrum (or indu- 
sium) bearded. Capsule inferior or semi- 
superior, 2 or 3-celled, opening at the sum- 
mit. Seeds minute, scabrous.—Wutt. 
1. L. erect, simple, subpubescent; leaves oblong, 
somewhat obtuse, radical ones entire, those of 
the stem above, denticulate; raceme virgate, 
bractes subulate.— Mich. and Pursh. 
L. spicata, Lamark. 
Rapuntium foliis villosis mollibus, &c. Gron. Virg. 
Clayton’s Lobelia. 
About eighteen inches high; flowers blue. In cultivated 
fields and woods, common. Perennial. July, August. 
2, L. slender, erect, somewhat simple; radical 
leaves spathulate, stem leaves linear, very 
slightly denticulate; flowers racemose, alter- 
nate, remote, pedicellate.— Willd. 
A delicate species, about a foot high, with blue flowers. In 
fields and meadows, common. Annual. July, August. 
Does this plant differ from the one below, which I have quot- 
ed on the authority of Mr. Nuttall? The plant intended by me 
referred to the above name, was considered by Dr. Muhlenberg 
the Kalmii, and without any doubt. Mr. Nuttall makes this 
different; and as the plant has not flowered since I have seen 
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