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MONADELPHIA, DECANDRIA. 
Cardinal!!. 
pallida. 
hirsute, with the divisions reflexed. — Willd.SLwi 
Fursh. 
Icon. Woodville’sMed.Bot. vol. l.p. 177. t. 63. 
A very elegant plant, from eighteen inches to three feet 
high. Flowers Prussian-blue, very large, and handsome. 
Possesses medicinal virtues, and has been much celebrated. 
On the east margin of the Schuylkill, a mile or two south of 
the falls ; and in swamps eight or ten miles from this city, west. 
Not common. Perennial. July, August. 
5. L. erect, simple, pubescent ; leaves ovate-lan- 
ceolate-acuminate, erose- denticulate ; raceme 
subsecund, many-flowered, the organs longer 
than the corolla. — Willd. and Fursh. 
Icon. Bot. Mag. 3.^0. 
Cardinal Flant. 
This is one of the most superb plants of the United States; 
it is highly deserving cultivation in gardens, where with a little 
attention it thrives exceedingly well. Flowers rich velvety- 
crimson. Plant from fifteen inches to three feet high. On the 
marshy borders of all our waters and ditches. In low wet mea- 
dows and watery thickets ; abundant. Perennial. July, August. 
6. L. 
L. pallida, Muhl. 
L. goodenoides, Willd. 
I have a specimen of a lobelia, common in this neighbour- 
hood, marked by Dr. Muhlenberg, L. pallida,” with which 
he makes the L. goodenoides, Willd. synonymous. I know not 
in what this pallida differs from Claytoniana, which Pursh 
makes synonymous with the goodenoides, of Willd. For the 
present I leave it undecided. 
ORDER III. DECANDRIA. 
306. GERANIUM. Gen. pi. 1118. {Gerania.) 
Calix 5 -leaved. Petals 5, regular. JSTecta- 
rium 5 melliferous glands adnate to the 
base of the longer filaments, tlrilli 5. 
