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XUX. VACCINIACEAS. 
[Lobelia. 
1 — 2-celled. Style ], glabrous, with a ring of hairs below the 
bifid or simple stigma. Fruit dry, more or less inferior, the 
free part usually opening between the dissepiments at the apex 
by 2 valves, or rarely baccate. Albumen fleshy : embryo straight. 
— Herbaceous or suffruticose. Leaves alternate , without stipules. 
— Lactescent and bitter. The genus Tupa , and particularly 
T. Feuillei from Chili, is poisonous. 
1. Lobelia Linn. Lobelia. 
Cor. irregular, 2-lipped, cleft longitudinally on the upper 
side ; upper lip smaller and erect, lower spreading 3-cleft. 
Anthers united, two lower ones bearded at the apex. Capsule 
2 — 3-celled, the upper part free 2-valved, loculicidal. — Named 
in honour of Matthias Lobel or L' Obel, a Fleming who settled in 
England, where he published several learned botanical works. 
1. L. urens L. ( acrid Li) ; leaves toothed nearly glabrous, 
radical ones obovate petioled, upper ones lanceolate sessile, 
raceme terminal bracteate, calyx rough. E. B. t. 953. 
Heathy ground, very rare, near Axminster, Devonshire. y. 8,9. 
— Milky, and, as its name implies, highly acrid. One foot or 
more high, with distant leaves and axillary branches. Flowers deep- 
purple, slightly downy externally. 
2. L. Dortmanna L. (Water L.) ; leaves radical subcylin- 
drical and obtuse of two parallel tubes, stem scarcely leafy, 
flowers racemed. E. B. t. 140. 
Lakes in the north and north-west of England, Scotland, and Ire- 
land, especially in the mountainous parts, frequent; often forming a 
green carpet at the bottom of the water with its densely matted 
foliage, y. 7, 8 . — Foot a small, thick, fleshy stock, from which 
descend many fibres, and sending forth creeping filiform runners. 
Leaves 2 — 3 inches long, a little recurved, formed of two parallel 
tubes or cells. Scape, or almost leafless stem, a foot or more high, 
according to the depth of the water. Flowers pale blue, drooping ; 
fruit erect. 
Ord. XLIX. VACCINIACE^l De Card. 
Calyx-tube adnate with the ovary; the limb with from 4 — 5 
more or less distinct lobes or teeth. Corolla lobed as the calyx. 
Stamens distinct, free from the corolla, and double the number 
of its lobes, inserted beneath an epigynous disk. Anthers wdth 
two cells, opening by 2 pores, and often furnished with two awns. 
Ovary 4 — 5-celled, 1- or many-seeded. Style and stigma simple. 
Berry with minute seeds. Albumen fleshy. — Shrubs : with al- 
ternate often coriaceous leaves ; chiefly inhabiting mountainous 
situations or high northern latitudes , slightly tonic and astringent; 
the fruit esculent. 
