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obelia
1. their main medicine—considered lobelia to be one of the most important plant medicines
2. Lobelia contains many active alkaloids, of which lobeline is considered the most active
3. Lobelia should be used cautiously, as it may
4. Otho and his wife Lobelia were present
5. Lobelia knew that quite well
6. But Lobelia was not so easily got rid of
7. 'Come in! Come in! I thought it was Lobelia
8. 'and that's more likely when Mistress Lobelia's the buyer
9. Frodo and look after his bit of garden'; an arrangement that was approved by the Gaffer, though it did not console him for the prospect of having Lobelia
10. Then there was Lobelia
11. In numerous other cases, far from self-fertilisation being favoured, there are special contrivances which effectually prevent the stigma receiving pollen from its own flower, as I could show from the works of Sprengel and others, as well as from my own observations: for instance, in Lobelia fulgens, there is a really beautiful and elaborate contrivance by which all the infinitely numerous pollen-granules are swept out of the conjoined anthers of each flower, before the stigma of that individual flower is ready to receive them; and as this flower is never visited, at least in my garden, by insects, it never sets a seed, though by placing pollen from one flower on the stigma of another, I raise plenty of seedlings
12. Another species of Lobelia, which is visited by bees, seeds freely in my garden
13. This case of the Crinum leads me to refer to a singular fact, namely, that individual plants of certain species of Lobelia, Verbascum and Passiflora, can easily be fertilised by the pollen from a distinct species, but not by pollen from the same plant, though this pollen can be proved to be perfectly sound by fertilising other plants or species