LOBE'LIA UTxENS. 
ACRID LOBELIA. 
Class. 
PENTANDRIA. 
Natural Order. 
LOBELIACE*. 
Order. 
MONOGYNIA. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Inhabits 
England. 
2 feet. 
Aug. Sept. 
Perennial. 
Heaths. 
No. 988. 
This genus was named by Pluinier, the French 
botanist, in honour of his counti’jnnan, Lobel, who 
was physician to William, Prince of Orange ; 
and afterwards settled in England, under, it may 
be presumed, favourable auspices ; for in 1592 we 
find him attending the embassy to the court of 
Denmark ; and subsequently bearing the title of 
botanist to King James I. This period of botani- 
cal historj' lays open several subjects of interest, 
particularly Lobel’s cultivation of his physic gar- 
den, at Hackney ; whilst Gerard was enjoying his 
garden of a thousand species, in Hglborn. 
Lobelia urens, as an English representative of 
a very extensive genus of handsome plants, is an 
interesting addition to the garden, although not a 
gay one. It is a rare plant, claiming, we believe, 
but one native station in Great Britain, which is 
Kilmington Hill, two miles from Axminster, 
Botanical works set it forth, some as annual, 
others as biennial, neither of which it really is, 
but perennial. It may be grown in pots of sandy 
peat, or in light soil on rock-work ; where young 
plants will sometimes spring from self-sown seeds. 
