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short and dense; calyx split in front; upper lip of the greenish-yellow 

 and crimson corolla hooded, incurved; capsule flat, somewhat sword- 

 shaped. Thickets and banks. May, June. 



OROBANCHACEAE (BROOM-RAPE FAMILY) 



yellowish or brownish, root-parasitic herbs, ^vith no green 

 foliage, bearing scales instead of leaves, tubular, more or less 

 2-lippcd corolla, did\namous 'stamens, and a i-celled capsule with 

 very numerous minute seeds. 



CONOPHOLIS 



Chestnut-colored or yellowish throughout, as thick as a man's 

 thumb, covered with scales. Flowers in a thick scaly spike. 

 Calyx deeply cleft in front. Corolla 2-lipped. Stamens exserted. 



C. americana, CANCER-ROOT. In woods, mostly under oaks, appear- 

 ing in clusters among fallen leaves. May and June. 



OROBANCHE 



Brownish, purplish, or whitish plants. Flowers solitary or 

 clustered. Calyx 5-cleft. Corolla 2-lipped. Stamens included. 



O. uniflora, BROOM RAPE. Stem subterranean or nearly so, very 

 short, sending up long, i-flowered, naked scapes; divisions of calyx 

 lance-awl-shaped; corolla with a long curved tube, 2 yellow bearded 

 folds in the throat, and spreading obovate lobes. Damp woods. 

 April to July. 



PLANTAGINACEAE (PLANTAIN FAMILY) 



Stcmlcss herbs, with regular 4-merous spiked flowers, and dry, 

 meuibranaceous, sympetalous corolla bearing the stamens on its 

 tube. 



PLANTAGO 



Herbs with ribbed leaves. Small whitish flowers in a bracted 

 head, on naked scape. Calyx of 4 imbricated persistent sepals. 

 Corolla salver-form or rotate with 4-parted border. Stamens 4. 

 Capsule 2-celled. 



