290 MONOPETALEZ.—HYPOCOROLLEE. 
mens; a l-celled ovary, with 2 or 4 many-seeded parietal 
placente ; and 1 style, with a 2-lobed stigma. 
Examptes.—Toothwort (Lathrea squamaria), Broom-rape 
+ (Orobanche major), which is parasitic on the roots of Broom 
and Furze. 
ORDER LIV. 
SCROPHULARINEZ. 
Personate, Linn.—Pediculares and Serophularie, Juss,—Antir- 
rhine and Rhinanthacee, De Cand. 
Cuaracters.—Herbs (rarely shrubs), with leaves mostly 
opposite, sometimes alternate or whorled ; flowers in spikes 
or racemes, or axillary ; calyx monosepalous, persistent, 4, 
but generally 5-cleft, often unequal ; corolla deciduous, more 
or less irregular, imbricated in xstiyation; stamens 2, or 4 
didynamous, attached to the corolla ; anthers 2, or by growth 
together, 1-celled ; ovary superior, many seeded ; style 1; stig- 
ma simple or two-lobed ; pericarp a 2-celled capsule, dehisc- 
ing by 2 valves,—each sometimes bearing on the middle of its _ 
internal surface one part of the dissepiment, which is formed _ 
_ of the incurved margins of the valves,—by 4 valves,—or by 
pores at the upper part of each cell (Antirrhinum); seeds — 
many, fixed to a central placenta, and having a fleshy albu- — 
- men. 
_ _Exampres.—Speedwell (Veronica), Snap-dragon (Antir- _ 
rhinum), Foxglove (Digitalis), Yellow Rattle (Rhinanthus), 
_Cow-wheat (Melampyrum). Many of the Scrophularinee 
turn black in drying. 
This family bears a considerable Siastahianas to the So- 
The latter have alternate leaves, a regular corolla 
din eta and stamens +e | in m mumber. 1 to the 
