203 FIGWORT FAMILY 



leaves narrowed into winged leaf-stalks. Sandy soil. Bloom- 

 ing in spring and summer. Fla. and Ga. to Texas and Ark. 



Capraria biflora. Flowers white, bell-shaped, 5-lobed, about 

 y2. in. long, fragrant, by pairs or solitary from leaf-axils. 

 Stamens 4 or 5. Plants 1-3 ft. tall. Leaves alternate, 

 oblong or broadened upward, about 1 in. long, toothed above 

 middle. Near the coast. Blooming all the year. Fla. 

 peninsula. 



Scoparia dulcis. Flowers whitish, wheel-shaped, 4-lobed, 

 hairy in throat, small, solitary from leaf-axils. Stamens 4. 

 Plants 1-3 ft. tall. Leaves mostly in whorls of 3, elliptic, 1 

 in. long or less, toothed. Sandy soil, often on roadsides. 

 Blooming chiefly from spring to fall. Fla. and Ga. to Texas. 



Afzelia (Genus Afzelia (Seymeria)) 



Plants of this genus, with short, finely cut leaves and 

 many small yellow flowers, often dotted and streaked with 

 brown and not quite half an inch across, bloom at the same 

 time as the gerardias, and are often found growing with 

 them in low pinelands. The dry plants, with a multitude of 

 small black capsules, remain standing through the winter. 



Afzelia cassioides. Flowers yellow, small, 5-lobed, tube 

 short, solitary in axils of leaf-like bracts. Stamens 4, not 

 hairy. Plants 2-4 ft. tall, widely branched. Leaves opposite, 

 many, mostly less than 1 in. long, pinnately cut into thread- 

 like divisions. Low pinelands. Blooming in summer and 

 fall. Fla. to N. C. and Texas. 



Afzelia pectinata. Stamens hairy. Flowers minutely hairy 

 outside. Divisions of leaves broader than in above species. 

 Plants somewhat sticky with viscid hairs. Dry soil. Fla. 

 to N. C. 



False Foxglove (Genus Dasystoma) 



This ornamental plant of dry pinelands bears large yel- 

 low flowers among small, dark green, deeply cut leaves. 

 The filaments of the stamens are bearded, and the large 

 anthers are noticeably awned at the base. 



