1190 RHINANTHACEAE 
eorolla usually 7-8 mm. long, i 
nata peninsularis of S Fla.; F o 
j em. long 
A 
and pedicels only 8-12 mm. long, in M. acu- 
minata microphylla of longleaf pinelands 
Fi N Fla. to Tex. and S Ga.) leaf-blades 
3-5 cm. aa spatulate- elliptic or ad 
elliptic, serrate-dentate: pedicels 12-3 
long, usually e paa bracts: ane 
6.8 mm. long: a about 10 mm. long, 
Ed with Mr E veins on the le Re 
posterior side: capsule 5-6 mm. long: seeds }- e 
oe | Herpestis nigrescens Bonth.]— E I we 
loam, es 
in partial shade, various provinees, Fla. to 
Tex., Mo., Ky., and Md.—Spr.-fall. 
. tenuis Small. Plant 0.5-4 dm. long, pc em Or prostrate: 
leaf-blades 1-2 em. long, oval, serrate: pedicels 15-35 ong, sepals 5-6 mm. 
long: corolla 7—8 mm. tee deep le lemon-yellow, with ie tadial dark veins on 
the posterior side: capsule 5-6 mm. long.—Light loam or humus over limestone, 
hammocks and thickets, Everglade Keys, Fla., and lower Florida IXeys.— 
(W. I.).—A year, but mostly in spr. 
M. procumbens (Mill) Small. Plant 0.5-4 dm. long, edo. in some- 
val 
what ascending: leaf-blades 1-2 em. long, o or ovate, serra pedicels 7—25 
. long, sepals 6-9 mm. long: corolla : mm. long, lemon- ee a longi- 
HEAT dark veins on the ae side: capsule 4-6 mm. long.—Moist loam or 
, 8S. A.) 
sand, um and edges of hammocks, S Florida.—(7V. L., Me ex. 
—All ye 
9. GRATIOLA L. Erect or nd branching herbs, the roots peren- 
nialor annual. Leaves opposite: blades toothed to rarcly entire, more or less 
glandular-punctate, sessile, or on young ns petioled. Flowers axillary to 
leaf-like bracts.  Draetlets usually present, borne just beneath the calyx. 
Sepals 5, MS equ udi. Corolla yellow or white, personate: lobes shorter than 
the tube, the posterior united nearly or quite to apex and pubescent within at 
ba zo postero-lateral stamens perfect, the antero-lateral represented by 
rudimentary filaments or wholly lacking, the connective expande ed to a pale 
membrane spreading beyond the anther-sacs, which are turned transversely to 
axis of flower. Stigmas lip-like. Capsule ovoid-pyramidal to globose, acute or 
rounded, glabrous, both septicidal and loculicidal nearly or quite to base. Seeds 
nerous, irregularly tetrahedral, reticulate, wingless.—About 30 species, widely 
dist ibuted.— HEDGE-HYSSOPS. 
c. 
e 
Capsule 3-6 mm. long, equalling or slightly exceeding the sepals: stem-leaves nar- 
rowed to a sessile B scarcely clasping base: plant annual. 
Pedicel slender, 10-45 long: corolla ME throat on posterior side pubes 
cent with uo ate "airs : eapsule ovoid, alled or exceeded by the i 
Corolla 8-10 long ube greenish- ellow, unlined : 
ue blades elipti ic-lan nce olate, acute to “acuminate. 1. G. neglecta. 
olla (at least of earlier flow aay 18- 18 r1 long, the 
tube white and lined with purple: leat- blades obovate 
to oval, obtuse or a 9. G. floridana. 
Pedicel stout, 1-12 mm. long: rolla within throat on pos- 
terior side pubescent with üliform 2 airs: capsule globose, 
usually slightly exceeding the sepa 3. G. virginiana. 
Capsule 1-3 mm. long, much exceeded by ‘the sepals : stem-leaves 
clasping by a wide base: plant perennial. 
