SCHROPULARIACE®. 
Fig wor ts. 
CHELONE GLABRA. 
Swaxe Heap, Salt Rheum weed, Balmony, Shell-flower, 
Place—North America, 
Quality—Unpleasant, sicken 
Power—Tonic, laxative. 2 
Use—Fever, jaundice, del ty. 
BOTANICAL ANALYSIS. 
Crass XIV. Didynamia. Orvder Angiospermia. 
Natural Order. Personate.—L. Schropulariacex,—ZJ. 
Swain. acy Pl. 516. Linn. Sp. Pl. 748. Raf. Med. Flor. ii.117. Per. Mat. 
Med. Griff, Med. Bot. 519. Kost. Mat. Med. 456. T. Flor. 243, Wood c. 
400. 
Genus. CHELONE. 
From the Greek y:\ovn, a tortoise, to the back of which the Heleset of the present 
genus has been faneifully compared. 
Synonyurs.—Galane or tortue (F.) Die schildblume (Ger.) Schildbloem = 
Skiolblomster (Dan.) Skoldblomster (Swed.) 
THE ESSENTIAL CHARACTERS. 
Catyx. Sepals, four or five, unequal, more or less united at 
base, inferior, persistent. 
Corotua. Bilabiate, personate or otherwise irregular, the lobes 
imbricate in estivation, 
Sramens. Four—didynamous rarely with the rudiment of the 
- fifth, sometimes two only, the three others either pppunen 
tary, or wholly wanting. 
