. Our garden flowers; a popular study of their native lands, their life histories, and their structural affiliations. Flowers. CARDINAL-FLOWER Stamens.âFive, united into a tube. Ovary.âTwo-celled; style long; stigma two-lobed. â Capsule.âMany-seeded, opening at the summit. Lobelia erinus is the low, normally blue-flowered, annual Lobelia, extensively used as an edging plant and as a reliable in- mate of window-boxes and hanging-baskets. Its delicate foliage, alert-looking blossoms, and easy culture make it a general favorite. It varies in habit from a diffuse, half-trailing stem overhanging a
. Our garden flowers; a popular study of their native lands, their life histories, and their structural affiliations. Flowers. CARDINAL-FLOWER Stamens.âFive, united into a tube. Ovary.âTwo-celled; style long; stigma two-lobed. â Capsule.âMany-seeded, opening at the summit. Lobelia erinus is the low, normally blue-flowered, annual Lobelia, extensively used as an edging plant and as a reliable in- mate of window-boxes and hanging-baskets. Its delicate foliage, alert-looking blossoms, and easy culture make it a general favorite. It varies in habit from a diffuse, half-trailing stem overhanging a box or window to dense upright plants suitable for close edging; sometimes the foliage, always variable in form, becomes variable in color, appearing both in yellow and in bronze. The blue of the normal blossoms frequently gives place to white, and there are varieties both rose and crimson. In some forms the size of the flower has considerably enlarged. CARDINAL-FLOWER Lobelia cardinalis. The most showy of our native Lobelias; found in wet or low grounds, beside streams, ditches, and meadow runlets. Range extends from New Brunswick to the Gulf States, west- 'ward to Kansas and the Northwest Terri- tory. Biennial. July to September. Stem.âErect, rarely branched, two to four feet high. Leaves.âOblong to lanceolate, slightly toothed, acute at each end, sessile. Flowers.âWith slenderer tube and more deeply cleft lips than most lobelias; bril- liant red, rarely rose or white, borne in a long, leafy terminal, rather one-sided ,â^â ° Cardinal-Flower. LobUii raceme. ^ ,. ... Carmnatts Calyx.âFive-deft, with short tube. Corolla.âVivid red; tube long, split down on apparently the upper side, two-lipped; upper lip two-lobed; under lip three-cleft. Stamens.âFive, red, free from the corolla and united into' a tube; anthers purple. Ovary.âTwo-celled; style one. Capsule.âMany-seeded. 447. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been
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