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LOBELIA*® longifléra. 
Longflowered Lobelia. 
SYNGENESIA MONOGAMIA. 
Nat. ord. LoBELIACER. : 
LOBELIA. — Supra, vol. 1. fol. 60. 
§ Lobelia herbacee, floribus azxillaribus solitariis, corollis albis, tubo 
longissimo integro, limbo subregulari. (Solenanthis). Kunth synops. 2. 344. 
L. longiflora ; herbacea, foliis obovato-lanceolatis grossé dentatis subtis 
hirtellis, dentibus denticulatis, pedunculis axillaribus brevissimis, tubo 
corollee longissimo, limbo zequali. Kunth l. c. 
Trachelium Sonchi folio, flore alba longissimo. Plumier ic. 353. f. 1. 
Rapunculus aquaticus foliis cichorii, flore albo, tubo longissimo. 
jam. 58. t. 101. f. 2. 
Rapuntium longiflorum. Mill. dict. no. 7. 
Lobelia longiflora. Linn. Jacq. amer. 219. Swartz obs. 317. Willd. 
sp. pl. 1.942. Jacq. hort. vind. 1. t. 27. 
Sloane 
One of the most venomous of all known plants. It is 
common in St. Domingo, Cuba, Jamaica, and Martinique, 
where it grows in damp places, and by the side of streams. 
In this country it is only cultivated in the stove, where it 
is ararity. It is an annual, flowering in July and August, 
and seldom exceeds a foot in length. 
In its native country it is said to prove fatal to horses 
which eat it, swelling them until they burst; whence the 
Spaniards call it Rebenta cavallos. Taken internally, it 
acts as a violent cathartic, the effects of which no remedy 
can assuage, and which ends in death. The juice of the 
* Named in honour of Matthew Lobel, physician to James the First of 
England. He was born at Lisle, in 1538; and died in London, in 1616. 
He was a celebrated Botanist in his time. 
