Table 16. Lobelia inflata.

Fig. 1. Is a representation of the lower portion of Lobelia infiata, of the natural size, having about three inches of the stem near the root, cut off.
2. Is the upper portion of the same plant, severed from fig. 1, at the asterisk.
3. A flower.
4. The corolla opened.
5. The vesicular, nerved capsule.
6. The corolla removed, shewing the calix, column of five stamens, and pistil.
7. The incipient capsule and pistil.
8. A stamen separated.

This image is from W. Barton's Vegetable Materia Medica, 1817 (Vol. I), 1818 (Vol. II), Lobelia.