LOBE'LIA BICOLOR. 
TWO-COLOURED LOBELIA. 
Class. Order. 
PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order- 
LOBEtlACE/E. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
C. G. Hope. 
6 incites. 
July, Sept. 
Annual. 
in 1795. 
No. 351. 
Matthias de Lobel, after whom this genus was in- 
stituted, was the son of a Flemish lawyer, and was 
born at Li.sle, in 1538. He was a zealous botanist, 
and ultimately held an appointment, perhaps honorary 
only, under our English monarch, James I. The 
application of bicolor, is evident ; being partly com- 
pounded from bis, twice. 
This pretty little annual has been very generally 
confined to green-house culture, but there is no oc- 
casion that the cultivator of hardy flowers should be 
deprived of the pleasure of possessing it, since it is 
equally subservient to his management. Its flowers 
are numerous and pleasing, but from their delicacy 
and the smallness of the plant, it should be placed 
near to the hand and the eye, to invite examination; 
its claims to notice will then be duly appreciated. 
Its seeds should be sown early in April, in a pot 
of fine compost, and placed in a hotbed. When the 
young pliints are about half an inch high, they 
should be planted, singly, in small pots of rich com- 
post; be gradually exposed to the open air, and at 
the end of May, they may be either turned out of the 
pots or retained in them for flowering. 
Hort. Kew. 2, v. I, 361. 
