Genus 6. 



FIGWORT FAMILY. 



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2. Antirrhinum Orontium L. Lesser 

 Snapdragon. Fig. 3748. 



Antirrhinum Orontium L. Sp. PI. 617. 1753. 



Annual, glabrous or pubescent ; stem erect, 

 simple, or branched, slender, about 1 high. 

 Leaves narrowly linear, or the lower linear- 

 spatulate, almost sessile, narrowed at both 

 ends, I '-2' long, l"-2" wide; flowers solitary 

 in the upper axils, purple, mostly distant, 

 S"-7" long; peduncles shorter than the flow- 

 ers; calyx-segments linear, somewhat unequal, 

 as long as the corolla, elongated in fruit so 

 as much to exceed the pubescent capsule. 



Fields and waste places, Ontario, New Eng- 

 land, New York, Vancouver Island and Jamaica. 

 Adventive from Europe. Native also of Asia. 

 Corn-snapdragon. % June-Aug. 



7. SCROPHULARIA [Tourn.] L. 

 Sp. PI. 619. 1753. 



Perennial strong-smelling herbs, some ex- 

 otic species shrubby, with mostly opposite 

 large leaves, and small purple greenish or yel- 

 low proterogynous flowers, in terminal pani- 

 cled cymes or thyrses. Calyx 5-parted or 5-cleft, the segments or lobes mostly obtuse. 

 Corolla irregular, the tube .globose to oblong, not gibbous nor spurred at the base, the limb 

 5-lobed, the 2 upper lobes longer, erect, the lateral ones ascending, the lower spreading or 

 reflexed. Stamens 5, 4 of them anther-bearing and didynamous, declined, mostly included, 

 their anther-sacs confluent into one, the fifth sterile, reduced to a scale on the roof of the 

 corolla tube. Style filiform; stigma capitate or truncate. Capsule ovoid, septicidally dehis- 

 cent. Seeds rugose, not winged. [Named for its repute as a remedy for scrofula.] 



About 120 species, natives of the northern hemisphere, most abundant in southern Europe. 

 Besides the following, 2 or 3 others occur in the western United States. Type species : Scrophularia 

 nodosa L. 



Corolla dull outside; sterile stamen deep purple. 1. S. marylandica. 



Corolla shining outside ; sterile stamen greenish yellow. 



Upper lip of the corolla as long as the tube; panicle-branches sparingly glandular; leaf-blades 



not hastate-incised at the base. 2. S. leporella. 



Upper lip of the corolla much shorter than the tube ; panicle-branches densely glandular ; leaf- 

 blades, especially the lower ones, incised-hastate at the base. 3. S 1 . occidentalis. 



In woods and thickets, Maine to South 



i. Scrophularia marylandica L. Mary- 

 land Figwort, Heal-all or Pilewort. 

 Fig- 3749- 



Scrophularia marylandica L. Sp. PI. 619. 1753. 

 Scrophularia nodosa var. marylandica A. Gray. 

 Syn. Fl. 2: Part 1, 258. 1878. 



Glabrous below, somewhat glandular-pubes- 

 cent above ; stem slender, 4-angled with grooved 

 sides, usually widely branched, erect, 3-I0 

 high. Leaves membranous, slender-petioled, 

 usually puberulent beneath, ovate or ovate- 

 lanceolate, acuminate at the apex, sharply ser- 

 rate, narrowed, truncate or subcordate at the 

 base, 3'-l2' long; flowers greenish-purple, 

 3"-4" long, very numerous in the nearly leaf- 

 less thyrses; bractlets mostly opposite, pedi- 

 cels slender, ascending, 4"-l2" long; calyx- 

 lobes broadly ovate, obtuse, about the length 

 of the tube; corolla green, dull without, brown- 

 ish purple and shining within, little contracted 

 at the throat, the two lateral lobes slightly 

 spreading, the upper lip erect, its lobes short, 

 rounded ; capsule subglobose. with a slender 

 tip ; sterile stamen deep purple. 



Dakota, North Carolina, Georgia and Tennessee. 



Scrofula-plant. Carpenter's-square. Ascends to 4000 ft. in North Carolina. July-Sept. 



