9. L. Kálmii, L. Stem mostly low (4–18´ high), minutely angled; pedicels filiform, not exceeding the linear or setaceous bracts but as long as the flower, minutely 2-bracteolate or 2-glandular above the middle; calyx-tube top-shaped or obovoid, fully half the length of the lobes, in fruit rather longer than they, covering the whole pod, corolla light blue, 4–5´´ long.—Wet limestone rocks and banks, N. Eng. to L. Winnipeg, south to Penn., Ind., and Minn.
10. L. Nuttàllii, Roem. & Schult. Stem very slender (1–2° high), terete; pedicels mostly longer than the bract and shorter than the flower, usually with very minute bractlets near the base; calyx-tube very short, depressed-hemispherical in fruit, the globular pod half free; corolla pale blue, barely 3´´ long.—Sandy swamps, N. J. and Penn. to Ga.
[=][=] Leaves ovate or oblong, obtusely toothed; pod inflated, wholly inferior.
11. L. inflàta, L. (Indian Tobacco.) Stems paniculately much branched from an annual root, pubescent with spreading hairs (1–2° high); leaves gradually diminishing into leaf-like bracts, which exceed the lower short-pedicelled flowers; calyx-tube ovoid.—Dry open fields.—Corolla only 1½–2´´ long. Plant poisonous and a noted quack medicine.
[++][++][++] Stem scape-like, mostly simple, hollow; leaves fleshy; fibrous-rooted perennials, very glabrous, mostly aquatic, with pale blue or whitish flowers.
12. L. paludòsa, Nutt. Nearly smooth; stem slender (1–4° high); leaves flat, scattered near the base, linear-spatulate or oblong-linear, glandular-denticulate, mostly tapering into a petiole; lower lip of corolla bearded in the middle; calyx-tube about half the length of the short lobes, hemispherical in fruit.—In water (but foliage emerged), Del. to Fla. and La.
13. L. Dortmánna, L. (Water Lobelia.) Very smooth; scape thickish (5–12´ high), few-flowered; leaves all tufted at the root, linear, terete, hollow, with a partition lengthwise; lower lip of corolla slightly hairy; calyx-tube about as long as the lobes, in fruit much longer.—Borders of ponds (often immersed), N. Eng. to N. Penn., L. Superior, and northward. (Eu.)
Order 57. CAMPANULÀCEÆ. (Campanula Family.)
Herbs, with milky juice, alternate leaves, and scattered flowers; calyx adherent to the ovary; the regular 5-lobed corolla bell-shaped, valvate in the bud; the 5 stamens usually free from the corolla and distinct.—Style 1, usually beset with collecting hairs above; stigmas 2 or more. Capsule 2–several-celled, many-seeded. Seed small, anatropous, with a straight embryo in fleshy albumen. Flowers generally blue and showy.