LOBE'LIA ERI'NUS. 
LOBELIA ERINUS. 
Class. 
FENTANBRIA. 
Natural Order. 
LOBELIACE^. 
Order. 
MONOGYNIA. 
Native of 
Flowers 
Duration. 
Introduced 
C.G.Hop6| 
1 foot. 
June to Sep. 
Perennial. 
in 1732. 
No. 1034. 
Lobelia, after Matthias de Lobel. See No. 988. 
The genus Lobelia varies greatly in its size and 
splendour, as may be seen by comparing the differ- 
ent species, and their descriptions, which we have 
already publislied. Some are small delicate bushes 
only a few inches high ; whilst others grow strong 
and erect, and in height exceeding that of man 
in his loftiest jiroportions. The specimen from 
which our drawing was made was obtained from the 
nurseiy of the Messrs. Pope, of Handsworth, and 
esteemed by them as a new variety, called grandi- 
flora. It is much larger than the original species. 
The genus Lobelia cannot, like Gentian, which 
occupies the following article, claim a popularity 
extending through all ages ; some of its species 
liossess qualities, notwithstanding, which have been 
highly appreciated in medical practice ; but they 
are of variable character, and far more virulent and 
dangerous than Gentian. 
Lobelia erinus, like bicolor. No. 351, is a free- 
flowering plant, but is better suited for pot culture 
than for the borders. It should have frame pro- 
tection in the winter. 
