CAMPANULACE.E. Q 
The specific name of this species was given in honour of Dortmann, a Dutch 
apothecary, who did good service to Botany. It is sometimes called the Cardinal 
flower; but tlii-; name is more appropriately given to the species with red flowers, in 
which a resemblance may be fancied in colour and shape to a cardinal's hat. 
SPECIES II— L OBELIA URENS. Linn. 
Plate DCCCLXII. 
Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 584. 
Radical leaves oblong-oblanceolate or obovate, sub-petiolate ; 
stem-leaves narrowly oblong, sessile, the uppermost ones strap- 
shaped, oblong- ; all flat, irregularly serrate - dentate, with the 
teeth callous-pointed, glabrous above, usually pubcrulent beneath. 
Pedicels shorter than the bracts. Flowers sub-erect, in elongated 
rather dense racemes. Calyx puberulent, clavate-cylindrical, the 
tube scarcely as long as the segments. Corolla much longer 
than the calyx, puberulent, split above, with the two upper lobes 
linear-lanceolate, ascending ; under lip as long as the upper, 3-cleft, 
with the lobes lanceolate, acute. Filaments free at the base. 
Anthers sub-exserted, pilose, the 2 lower ones bearded at the 
apex. 
On bushy heaths. Very rare. " At the bottom of Kilmington 
Ilill or Shute Common (Axminster end), on a part of the heath 
facing the George public-house, but on the other side of the 
road, growing amongst tufts of short furze or heath in tolerable 
plenty, 1836. The inhabitants know the plant from the visits of 
the curious. I am told by Mr. Abraham it occurs scattered over 
"Woodbury Hill, and I found one specimen at a considerable dis- 
tance from the general station." — (Dr. Bromfield, in New Botanist's 
Guide, p. 551.) Also said to be found by the Rev. J. Dix near 
Ash ford, Kent ; but it seems doubtful if more than a single root 
was observed. 
England. Perennial. Autumn. 
Steml to 2 feet high, simple or paniculately branched. Radical 
leaves almost in a rosette, 1 to 3 inches long ; stem-leaves becoming 
smaller and less attenuated at the base in proportion as they are 
placed higher on the stem, Racemes simple, that which terminates 
the main stem much larger than those of the branches. Bracts 
linear-acute, about three times as long as the short pedicels, densely 
puberulent, herbaceous, tipped with red. Flowers -| to £ inch 
long. Tube of the corolla iunnel-sliaped-cylindrical, twice as long 
as the calyx-segments ; limb pale-blue. Capsule erect, the point 
