LOBELIA ERINUS; var. GRANDIFLORA. 
(Large-flowered Erinus.) 
Class. Order. 
PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Ordtr. 
LOBELlACEiE. 
Generic Character — Calyx five-parted. Corolla toothed, smooth, petiolate. Flowers terminal, racemose, 
monopetalous, irregular. Anthers cohering. Capsule Capsule two-celled. 
inferior, two or three celled. Var. Grandiflora. — Flowers much larger than in 
Specific Character. — Plant an herbaceous perennial. the species. 
Stems filiform, tortuously erect. Leaves obovate, 
Few persons having either a greenhouse, or a frame, or a plot of ground devoted 
entirely to flowers, are unacquainted with the charming little Lobelia Erinus, 
whose delightful blue blossoms make the beds of the flower-garden, the smaller 
vases or baskets introduced to the pleasure-grounds as summer ornaments, the 
lesser parterres of the conservatory, or the superior and decorated pots or vases 
employed to enliven the greenhouse, so gay daring the warmer months of the year. 
For all these purposes — for filling boxes to place in balconies, for vases to stand at 
the top of steps or along balustrades, for elevated stone parterres in the Italian 
style, or rustic wooden baskets on lawns, for shallow ornamental pots or pans to 
suspend from the roof, or place on the elevated shelves of greenhouses, and even for 
putting out in patches in the front of the commoner borders, or for forming an 
edging by the sides of walks in conservatories — there is hardly a prettier or more 
interesting object in the whole range of easily-cultivated flowers of a dwarf 
character. 
But the variety now represented, and which we have at present to recommend, 
is a yet more enchanting little plant, in consequence of its flowers being much 
larger, and, therefore, more specious, than those of the original species. And on 
this account, it has a far more brilliant appearance when in blossom. 
We met with it, last autumn, in the nursery of Messrs, Henderson, Pine-Apple 
Place, where it was making a very admirable display in the greenhouse. These 
gentlemen, we understand, obtained it from Mr. Frazer, nurseryman, of Leyton, 
Essex, who is believed to have raised it from seed. Whether, however, it is an 
