BROOK LOBELIA 
Lobelia kalmii Linnaeus 
Brook lobelia is abundant locally in the Canadian Rockies. The 
sturdiest specimens seen wete growing beside a brook that found its 
way through a bed of disintegrated calcareous tufa. It is a dainty and 
ptetty plant, though not to be compared in showiness with its rela- 
tives, the cardinalflower and the large blue lobelia. 
The range of brook lobelia is wide—in moist calcareous soils from 
New Jetsey northward to Newfoundland and westward to lowa and 
British Columbia. 
The specimen sketched was obtained near Canal Flats, British 
Columbia, at an altitude of 3,000 feet. 
PLATE 192 
