Lobelia

Webster's Practical Dictionary- A Practical Dictionary of the Englih Language · 1884 · p. 242

lo-bel i-a, n. (Bot.) A genus of plants, including many species, one of which is used in medicine as T-,, T etc.; some -L'ODare -L-eai. an emetic, expectorant, are very poisonous, and others are prized for their flowers.