lobelia

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White and yellow water-lilies also grow in fairly deep water; the water-lobelia is also an excellent plant for ponds.

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  1. noun Any of numerous plants of the genus Lobelia, having terminal racemes of variously colored flowers with a bilabiate corolla.

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  • She was therefore able to gaze with pleasure upon the rows of small villas which bordered it on either hand, each with a trim autumn garden which displayed salvia, lobelia, marigold, and michaelmas daisy. —  The Ivory Dagger - Patricia WentworthMiss Silver 19
  • He says: “I took another emetic of lobelia to-day, and perspired freely.” If lobelia is the poisonous drug that some seem to think it is, we can hardly account for the improvement which Brother Kline reports to have experienced in his feelings, following every administration of it. —  Life and Labors of Elder John Kline, the Martyr Missionary
  • Birds like that don't just switch specialized feeding habits to lobelia or ohi'a in a few decades. —  FSF,December2005
  • The dainty, demure lavender blooms of Nuttall's lobelia (Lobelia nuttallii) and purple torches of pickerelweed —  www.philadelphiaweekly.com Philadelphia Weekly
  • "To the same ominous class," he adds, "belong fox-glove, hen-bane, deadly night-shade, lobelia, and another poisonous plant, bearing the tremendous name Atropa, one of the furies." —  A Disquisition on the Evils of Using Tobacco and the Necessity of Immediate and Entire Reformation
 

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  1. New Latin Lobelia, genus name, after Matthias de Lobel (1538-1616), Flemish botanist and physician.
 

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