"J-'!<| FIGWOHT KAMILY. 



M. semperflbrens, has lanceolate smooth calyx-divi>ions, and smaller 

 rose-purple or violet corolla. 



2. LOFHOSPERMUM. Corolla very obscurely 1-lipped, and with 2 bearded lines. 



M. erub^SCens. Somewhat soft-pubescent, with irregularly toothed leaves, 



rose-colored flowers 3' long, and ovate-oblong rather leaf-like .-epal- 



M. SCandens, now le<s common and not so showy, is less pubescent, and 

 has smaller less-inflated deeper purple corolla, and lance-oblong sepals. 



16. DIGITALIS, FOXGLOVE. ( Latin name, from >hape of the corolla, 

 likened to the linger of a glove, in the common species.) 



D. purpiirea, PURPLE F., of which varieties with corolla white or pale 

 and more or less strongly spotted corolla are common, 2' long, the lobes rather 

 obscure; leaves rugose, somewhat downy. Cult, from Eu. : fl. summer. ^ 



17. GERARDIA. (Named for the herbalist, Gerarde.) Handsome, but 

 uncultivablc plants : fl. late summer and autumn. The following are the 

 commonest wild species : mostly of gravelly or sandy soil. 



1. Coro'la fi/irp/e or rose-color, somewhat bell-shaped : calyx-teeth short : anthers 

 oil dike, nearly pointless at //xc .- l/m-rs narrnir, linear or thread-shaped, 

 entire: loosely branching, nearly all annuals, except thejimt. 



G. linifblia. Pine-barrens S. ; with erect branches, and erect linear leaves 

 about the length of the peduncles, truncate calyx, and corolla 1' long. 2/ 



G. tenuifblia. N. S. ; with opposite pedicels equalling the linear 

 spreading leaves, broadly awl-shaped calyx-teeth, and corolla .V-J' long. 



G. filifblia. S. ; with alternate pedicel- twice the length of the rather 

 fleshy thread-shaped or slightly club-shaped leaves ; corolla 4'. lonir. 



G. aphylla. S. ; with short peilicels alternate along one side of the 

 flowering branches, and minute scale-like or awl-shaped appressed leaves, 

 minute calyx-teeth, and corolla ' long. 



G. purpurea. N. & S. in low ground ; with stout pedicels not longer 

 than the conspicuously . r >-lohed calyx, opposite and spreading rather broad 

 linear leaves, and corolla }' - 1' lone;. 



G. maritima. Salt mar>hes X. & S., lower than the preceding, and with 

 fleshy blunt leaves, the pedicels as long as the upper ones and as the nhtu.-ely 

 5- toothed calyx, and corolla '-$' long. 



2. Corolla purple (or sometimes wl,!t,} : calyx deeply and unequally . r > -cleji : 

 anthers point/ex*, those of the short* r pair much smaller: //r rut/nr broad. 



G. aui'iculata. Low grounds, from Penn. S. & W. ; rough-hairv, with 

 nearly simple stem, lanceolate or oblong leaves entire, or the lower with' a lobe 

 on each side of the base ; flowers se-<ile in the upper axils ; corolla 1' long. 



3. Con>lla i/, How and with a longer tube, the insiih woolly, s are the filaments 

 urn/ anthers; tin latin- almost prnjii-tin,/, slender-pointed <ii //.: ni'i/.i- 

 :>-./,// .- /,;//,/ / His, with leaves or some of them pinnntijiil or tontl. ,!. ^ 



* Stems nearly simple: flowers in a ///'// rareme : corolla more tubular. 



G. flava, DOWNY FAI.SF. Fox;i.ovr.. Open dry wood* : 3 -4 high, 

 minutely soft-downy ; upper leaves laneeo'atc or oblong and entire, lower sinuate 

 or pinnatitid ; pedicels very short ; corolla I, 1 ,' long. 



G. quercifblia, SMOOTH F. l!ieh woo.N, commoner S. & W. : 3-6 

 high, smooth and glaucous ; upper leaves often entire, lower once or twice 

 pinn.ititid ; pedicels as IOIILT as calyx ; corolla '2' IOIILT. 



G. integrifblia. Harrens, from Penn. S. & \V. : l-2 high, smooth, 

 not glaucous ; leaves lanceolate, entire ; corolla 1' lonr. 



* # Steins bushy-branched: calyx-lobes toothed or pinnatifid : leaves mostly rut. 



G. grandiflora. Oak openings from \ViM-.uxiu S. : ;t -4 hiuh, minutely 

 downy ; Icavo ovate-lanceolate, I'oarsely cut-toothed, the lower pinnatiiid ; ped 

 iecls shorter ihan the barely toothed calyx-lobes ; corolla "2' long. 



