SCROPHULARIACE^— FIGWORT 



FAMILY 



COLLINSIA 



Collinsia verna 

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Collinsia, dedicated to Zaccheus Collins, botanist, of 

 Philadelphia. 



Biennial or winter annual. Moist meadows, woods, and 

 thickets. Western New York and Pennsylvania to Wis- 

 consin, Kentucky, and Okla- 

 homa. Rare in northern 

 Ohio. April- June. 



Stems. — Hoary or smooth, 

 weak and slender, six to 

 twenty inches high, branch- 

 ing. 



Leaves. — T h i n , opposite, 

 the lower ovate or orbicular, 

 obtuse, crenate or entire, 

 slender-petioled; the middle 

 leaves sessile or clasping, 

 ovate or oblong, obtuse, den- 

 tate; floral leaves ovate to 

 spatulate, mostly acute. 



Flowers. — Blue and white, 

 two-lipped; borne in about six-flowered whorls in the 

 axils of the upper leaves. 



Calyx. — Deeply five-cleft. 



Corolla. — Irregular, declined, with the tube bulging at 

 the base on the upper side, deeply two-lipped; upper 



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