412 175. Lobelia. 38. CAMPANULACEiE. PL ex. cal 
B. Lobelia. Flowers irregular, cut deepest on the lower 
side, generally become resupinate ; stigma bearded, 
% completely formed before the anthers burst. 
Y. 175. LOBELIA. Plunder. Label. 
Calyx 5-toothed ; corolla irregular, becoming resupinate, 
deeply cut below, 3-lobed above; stamens 5 ; filaments dis- 
tinct; anthers connected into a tube, bearded at the top ; 
stigma nicked; capsule 2-celled. — - Stem upright; leaves 
often radical ; flowers peduncled, in racerties; bractea 1 at 
the base of each peduncle ; juice milky. 
1 . Lobelia lacustris . Lake lohel . 
Leaves mostly radical, linear, 2-celled, not in the least 
cut; scape simple, nearly naked, few-flowered, racemose. 
Gladiolus lacustris Dorlmanni, Rati Syn. 287 *, 1. 
Gladiolus lacustris, Ger. em. 105, 4. 
Gladiolus lacustris Clusii, sive leucojura palustrc, flore subcsruleo 
Bauhini, Park. 1250. 
Lobelia Dortmanni, Lin. S. P. 1310. 
Lobelia lacustris, Salisb. Prod. 
Water sword-Jlag. 
Lakes; perefinial; July. 
Root white; stem round, hollow; leaves all under water, 
bent back ; flowers drooping, blue ; hractece ovate, short ; 
lobes of the calyx shorter than the tube of the corolla. 
2. Lobelia urens . Slinging lobel. 
Stem rather erect; lower leaves reverse-ovate, denticu- 
lated ; upper leaves lanceolate, serrate ; flowers in racemes. 
Lobelia urens, J Lin. S. P. 1321. 
Lobelia verbenaefolia, Salisb. Prod. 129. 
Mountainous meadows; peren.; August and September. 
Root fibrous; stem branched, bluntly angular, rather 
leafy ; racemes many-flowered ; flowers 1 -rowed, violet ; 
hractece. bristleshape, rough ; lobes of the calyx retuse, as 
long as the tube. — Plant acrid, especially the root. 
Earn. IV. 39. COMPOSITE. 
Flowers collected into a calathide seated on a clinanthus : 
calathide girt with a pericline composed of many scales, in 
a single, double, or multiple series; scales mostly free, 
sometimes soldered ; pericline often surrounded with an in- 
volucrum of many verticillate bracteae attached to the base; 
clinanthus naked or with appendices, flat or convex; cala- 
thide of 1, 2, or 3 sorts of flowers, mostly solitary, some- 
