FIGWORT FAMILY 



lip white or pale purple, two-cleft; the lower lip blue, 

 three-lobed, the side lobes spreading, the middle lobe 

 folded lengthwise to enclose four adhering stamens and 

 one pistil; about three-fourths of an inch long. 



Stamens. — Four perfect stamens, the fifth a gland-like 

 rudiment; all inserted on the tube of the corolla. 



Pistil. — One; style threadlike; stigma small. 



Fruit. — A round capsule to which the enlarged calyx 

 adheres; seeds few. 



Pollinated by bees. Stamens mature pollen at different 

 times. 



Collinsia is a flower of delicate beauty, rare in 

 northern Ohio but covering acreage in the West and 

 Southwest when permitted so to do. It loves moist 

 alluvial soil and is rarely found elsewhere. Its beauti- 

 ful blue and white corolla is deeply two-lipped, the 

 upper lip two-cleft with its lobes partly turned back- 

 ward, the lower is three-cleft, its middle lobe sac-like 

 and ridged, enclosing the stamens and the style. 



The plant v/as named in honor of Zaccheus Collins, 

 a Philadelphia botanist, and seems never to have 

 gained a common name. 



CORN SPEEDWELL 



Veronica arvensis 



A winter annual. Naturalized from Europe. The 

 earliest Speedwell. In cultivated soil, fields, woods, and 

 waste places. Nova Scotia to Minnesota, south to Florida 

 and Kansas. Found in northern Ohio. April-September. 



Stem. — Slender, branched, dift'use, three to ten inches 

 long. 



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