BROOK LOBELIA 



Lobelia kalmii Linnaeus 



Brook lobelia is abundant locally in the Canadian Rockies. The 

 sturdiest specimens seen were growing beside a brook that found its 

 way through a bed of disintegrated calcareous tufa. It is a dainty and 

 pretty 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 Jersey northward to Newfoundland and westward to Iowa and 

 British Columbia. 



The specimen sketched was obtained near Canal Flats, British 

 Columbia, at an altitude of 3,000 feet. 



PLATE 192. 



