WOOTON AND STANDLEY—FLORA OF NEW MEXICO. 575 
127. SCROPHULARIACEAE. Figwort Family. 
Herbs or shrubs with usually terete stems and opposite, alternate, or whorled, exstip- 
ulate, simple, lobed, or parted leaves; flowers perfect, irregular; calyx of 4 or 5 more 
or less united sepals, persistent; corolla gamopetalous, commonly 2-lipped; stamens 
4 or 5, usually of 2 kinds, more or less adnate to the corolla, alternate with its lobes; 
ovary 2-celled, superior, the styles united or nearly distinct; fruit a 2-celled 2-valved 
capsule, or rarely baccate; seeds usually numerous. 
KEY TO THE GENERA. 
Anther-bearing stamens 5..........--.-.-2-----22220--- 
Anther-bearing stamens 4 or 2. 
Low shrubs; leaves silvery-canescent; corolla fun- 
- nelform........-------------2------------- 
Herbs (a few suffrutescent at the base); leaves and 
corolla various. 
Corolla tube spurred or saccate on the lower 
side. 
Corolla tube spurred; flowers in terminal 
spikes, dark blue; stems erect...... 
Corolla tube saccate at the base; flowers 
mostly solitary, axillary, light blue; 
stems twining. 
Capsules subglobose, opening by 2 or 
3 pores; seeds with irregular 
corky ridges........---------- 
Capsules ovoid, the base of the style 
becoming hardened and _ broad- 
ened, the lateral valves adhe- 
rent at the base; seeds winged. 
Corolla not spurred nor saccate at the base. 
Stamens 5, 4 anther-bearing, the fifth not 
antheriferous, often rudimentary. 
Staminodium merely a scale adnate to 
the upper side of the corolla 
tube. 
Perennials, 50 cm. high or more; 
seeds numerous; corolla not 
gibbous at the base......-- 
Annuals; 10 cm. high or less; 
seeds few or solitary; corol- 
la gibbous at the base..... 
Staminodium an elongated filament, 
usually longer than the anther- 
bearing ones. 
Corolla strongly bilabiate, more or 
less oblique..........----- 
Corolla nearly salverform, not 
trongly bilabiate, the 
lobes nearly alike..... eee 
Stamens 4 or 2. 
Upper lip or lobes of the corolla ex- 
ternal in the bud. 
Corolla nearly regular; leaves in 
a basal rosette.............13. 
9 
as 
9. 
. VERBASCUM (p. 577). 
LEUCOPHYLLUM (p. 577). 
. Lryaria (p. 577). 
. ANTIRRHINUM (p. 578). 
¢ 
. MAURANDIA (p. 578). 
. SCROPHULARIA (p. 578). 
. CoLtrnsta (p. 579). 
. PENTSTEMON (p. 579). 
LEIOSTEMON (p. 586). 
LIMOSELLA (p. 588). 
