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P L A T E CCCXXXIX.
L O B E L I A CORONOPIFOLIA.
Buck's-horn-leaved Lohelia.
C L A S S XIX. ORDER VL
SYNGENESIA MONOGAMIA. Tips united. Flowers fimple.
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.
C A L Y X 5-fidus. Corolla l-peta!a, irregalaris.
Capfiila infera, 2-leu 3-locularis.
Cur 5-deft. Bloflbm 1-petal, irregular. Capfule
beneath, 2 or 3-celled.
See LOBELI A TINIFOLIA, Pi. CCLXXI I I . Vol. IV.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Lobelia foliis lanceolatis, dentatis, glabris ; floribus
folitariis, axillaribus; pedunculis
elongatis; ftigmatibus obtufis, pilofis.
Lobelia with laiice-ihaped leaves, toothed and
fmooth; flowers iblitary, from the bafe of
the leaves; foot-ilalks lengthened; fummit*
blunt, hairy.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. The Chives niagniiied.
2. The Cup, Chives, and Pointal, the Summit detached, magnified.
THE charafter of moft of the Lobelias from the Cape, and elfewhere, is, that they are either annual or
biennial, and can fcarcely be confidered ?.s ihrubs. Our prefent fubjeft is a biennial from the Cape of
Good Hope, flowers the firft year from the feed, if fown in March, and may be preferved a fécond
year; but, as it feeds fo abundantly, it is fcarce worth the pains to preferve it, as the plants of one
year's growth are fo much handfomer than thofe preferved through the winter. It flowers from July
till Oaober, and ihonld be kept in fandy peat earth.
The L. coronopifolia was introduced to the Kew Colleaion in 1787, by Mr . F. Maflbn, and is
now in moft colleâions.
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