LosELIA Urens. Acrip Lope ia. 
LOBELIA. Linn. Gen. Pl. Syncenzsta Monocamia. 
Cal. 5-fidus, Corolla 1-petala, irregularis. Caf infera, 9.f. 3-locularis. 
LOBELIA zrezs caule ere€tiuf{culo foliis inferioribus fubrotundis crenatis, fuperioribus lanceolatis 
ferratis, floribus racemofis. Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 3... 1321. Mant. p. 482... 
LOBELIA caule ere&o, foliis lanceolatis fubdentatis, fpica laxa longa terminali. Loeff. zt. 167. 
LOBELIA foliis oblongo-ovatis, floribus laxe fpicatis. Gwezz. Stamp. 1. 9. 35. Dalib. Parif. 268. 
RAPUNCULUS galeatus blefenfis f. folonienfis flore violaceo minore. Mori/: Hf. 2. p. 407. f. 5. f. 5. 
J- 56. 
RAPUNTIUM urens folonienfe. Mori/: &eff. 300. Boce. fic. 20. f. 14. var. 11.3. Ram Hjff. 746. 
... Mennzer Obf. 191. 
DRABA flore caeruleo galeato. Baeub. Prodr. 59. Pim. 110; 
Planta, laCtefcens, laevis, acris. Q The plant milky, fniooth; and acrid. 
RADIX perennis, fibrofa. ROOT perennial, fibrous. 
STALK from one to two feet high, upright, branched, 
angular. 
Q 
CAULIS pedalis ad bipedalem, ereétus, ramofus, an- 
gulofus. 6 
Q 
Q 
7) 
RAMI ad{cendentes, tetragoni. RANCHES afcending, four-cornered. 
B 
FOLIA alterna, feffilia, fubdecurrentia, inferiora ob- 6 LEAVES alternate, feffile, fomewhat decurrent, the 
2 d ‘longa, obtufa, bafi anguftata, varie dentata, 9 lowermoft oblong, obtufe, narrowed at the 
apice fzepe trifida, fuperiora lanceolata, denti- ; bafe, varioufly indented, often trifid at the 
culata. Ó point, the uppermoft lanceolate, finely toothed. 
F LORIS violacei, inodori, numerofi, fecundi, race- à FLOWER violet-coloured, fcentlefs, numerous, grow- 
mofi. 2 ing to one fide in racemi. 
RACEMI femipedales, ereéti, bra&teati. : RACEMI about fix inches in length, upright, furnifh- 
=o ed with bractee. . 
BRACTE® inferiores lanceolate, denticulate, apice ; BRACTE, the lowermoft lanceolate, finely toothed, 
tricornes, fuperioris fubulate, omnibus ad 9 terminating at top in three little horns, the 
lentem {cabriufculis. uppermoft awl-fhaped, all of them appear- 
ing rough if magnified, 
FLOWERS ufually fingle, on peduncles, peduncles 
fhort, furnifhed on each fide at the bafe with 
an awl-fhaped ftipula tipped with red. 
FLORES plerumque folitarii, pedunculati,, pedunculis. 
brevibus, ftipula fubulata rubro terminata ad 
bafin utrinque. 
CALYX: aPzRiANTHIUM placed above the ger- 
men, continuing, divided into five fegments 
which are fubulate and fpreading, the upper- 
moft a little longer than the others, flightly — 
hirfute if magnified, jig. 1. 
CALYX: PrRiANTHIUM fuperum, perfiflens, quin- 
quepartitum, laciniis fubulatis, patentibus, 
fuprema ceteris paulo longiore, ad lentem 
hirfutulis, fg. 1. 
CO COM COCOA COM Qi x 
COROLLA monopetala, ad lentem villofula, tubulofa, 2 COROLLA: monopetalous, flightly villous if magni- 
tubus calyce duplo longior, fuperne longitu- fied, tubular, tube twice the length of the 
dinaliter divifus; Lizmbus quinquepartitus, bi- calyx, longitudinally divided above; Limd 
labiatus ; labium inferius tripartitum, laciniis deeply divided into five fegments, two-lipped; 
ovato-lanceolatis, acuminatis, dependens, tu- under lip tripartite, fegments ovato-lanceolate, 
berculis duobus albis in fauce notatis, fupe- long-pointed, and depending, at the entrance 
rius bipartitum, laciniis anguftioribus, erectis of the throat marked with two. white tu- 
remotis, paululum recurvis, jig. 2. bercles, upper lip bipartite, fegments nar- 
rower, upright, remote from each other, and 
fomewhat bent back, jy. 2. 
3 
STAMINA: five Firaments, of a white caleun, 
united together above; ANTHER& of a 
brownifh black colour, with grey hairs on 
their edges, jig. 3. 
STAMINA: FirAwENTA quinque, alba, füperne con- 
nata; ÁNTHER e fufco-nigricantes, pilis ad 
margines canefcentibus, fg. 9. 
PISTILLUM : Gzrmewn below the calyx, grooved ; 
Srvrz filiform, the length of the flamina, 
a little thickened above; Sticma obtufe and 
villous, jig. 4. 
PISTILLUM: Germen inferum, fulcatum; Stytus 
- filiformis, longitudine ftaminum, fuperne paulo 
' craffior; Stigma obtufum, villofum, ji. 4. 
The Lobelia urens is one of our native plants which it has fallen to the lot of very few Englifh Botanifts to 
fee, either wild or cultivated, its place of growth being altogether local and confined to a part of the ifland 
comparatively but little frequented by Botanifis; in France and Spain it is more common: for more than 
twenty years we were anxioully defirous of obtaining this plant; once we had the mortification of travelling in 
a flage coach clofe by the fpot where it was faid to grow: our wifhes were at length gratified by the kindnefs of 
the Right Hon. Lord Wza5 Szvwoun, who two years fince fent us up roots and fpecimens, accompanied with 
a letter, which, as it defcribes minutely its place of growth and other circumflances, we have taken the liberty 
to add to our account of this plant. ^ | 
i: * Dradley- Houfe, 
