NAT. ORDER. 
LoheliacecB. 
LOBELIA INFLATA. INDIAN TOBACCO. 
Class V. Pentandria. Order I. Monogynia. 
Gen. Char. Calyx five-cleft. Corolla irregular, five-parted, cleft 
on the upper side nearly to the base. Anthers united into a 
tube. Stigma two-lobed. Capsule inferior, or semi-superior, 
two or three-celled, two valved at the apex. 
Spe. Char. Stem hairy, branched. Leaves ovate-lanceolate. 
Racemes leafy, somewhat paniculate. Capsules somewhat 
inflated. 
The Lohelia Injlata is a biennial, indigenous plant, usually found 
growing from twelve to eighteen inches in height, with a fibrous 
root; the stem is hairy, solitary, erect, angular, much branched 
about two-thirds of the way, and rises considerably above the sum- 
mit of the highest branches ; the leaves are sessile, acute, serrate, 
oval, hairy, and much scattered ; the Jloioers are disposed in numer- 
ous leafy terminal racemes, and supported on short foot-stalks ; the 
segments of the calyx are linear and pointed ; the Jlower, which 
is of a delicate bluish color, has a border labiate, the upper lip 
being divided into two, and the lower into three acute segments ; 
the pod is an ovate, inflated capsule, crowned with the persistent 
calyx, and contains in two cells numerous small brown seeds." — 
Thomson's Materia Medica. 
Lohelia is a native of the United States, and is found growing 
from Canada to Louisiana, by the road-sides and in stubble fields, 
especially the next season after the crop is taken oft'. When broken 
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