Botanical Desckiptiom.— This plant is generally known aa wild oc Indian Tobaeco, and is aa annual or biennial indigenous plaut, more com- monly the latter, with a flbrous, yellowish white root, and an erect, angular, Tery liairy «i«»,' in the full-sized plant, much branched, and from six inches to three feet in heiglit. Tlie leave* are alternate, scattered, sessile, ovate-lanceolate, serrate, veiny, hairy. The flowert are small, numerouB, pale-blue, on short peduncles, each originating from the axil of a small leaf. The ealyx consisia of five sutiuHte segments. The corolla is tubular, small, slil on the upper aide and ventrlcose at the base; the limbs bilabiate; tube prismatic ; segments spreading and acute, two upper ones lanceolate, two lower ones oval; antliera united into an oblong, curved body, purple; filamenU white; atj/le filiform; ttigma curved, Iwo-lobed, and enclosed by the anthers; capsule, two celled, ovoid, inflated, sWated, t«n -angled and crowned, with the persistent calyx. Seeds, numerous, small, oblong, brown. Officinal Pbepabations. — Tincture of the whole plant or seeds; triturations of the seeds; dilutions. Anai/xides. — Aivnile, Euphorbia, Ipeeaeuart/ta, Laeheeia (?) Squilla, Tabacum, Tartar ematieus, Yeratrum atbuw,, Yeratrwm. viride. Sensorium. Great dejection with exhaustion, and sobbing. " Fear of death, with difficulty of respiration. * Great mental depression. dbyGooglc LOBELIA INFLATA. 423 In sen Bib ill ty and loss of consciousness.