130 ORDER ANGIOSPERMIA. 



plant with thicker, long spikes of blue flowers ; and 

 with the lanceolate, deeply serrated leaves occasional- 

 ly lobed, or halbert-shaped at the base, particularly 

 the lower and larger ones. This genus is the type of 

 a natural order Verbenace.e. 



Scrophtdaria, or Figwort, is remarkable for its 

 brown, and almost globular flowers, which are resupi- 

 nate, divided into 2 short Jips, with an intermediate 

 scale. The capsule is 2-celled. The common spe- 

 cies, S. marilandica, has nettle like foetid leaves. This 

 genus is the type of the natural order Scrophulari-e. 



The Bignonia, or Trumpet-flower, is also the type 

 of an order of the same name, and one of the most 

 beautiful and showy genera of this artificial order. 

 The calyx is cup-shaped, of a leathery consistence, 

 with a 5-toothed border. The corolla campanulate, 

 5-lobed, and ventricose or swelled out on the under 

 side. The capsule is a kind of 2-celled silique ; and 

 the seeds membranaceously winged. Our common 

 species, occasionally found by the banks of rivers 

 amidst bushes, and in flower from July to August, is 

 the B. radicans, having a creeping, long branched 

 stem, which sustains itself to neighboring objects and 

 rocks by the adhering fibres which the branches send 

 out, like Ivy, at short intervals. The leaves are pinnat- 

 ed ; and the flowers, large and scarlet, are sparingly 

 produced in terminal clusters from branches of the 

 present year. These flowers commonly contain the 

 rudiments of a 5th stamen. 



Antirrhinum, or Toad-flax, is another genus of the 

 Scrophularije, which presents, in ordinary, a 5-part- 

 ed calyx ; a personate or ringent corolla, with a promi- 

 nent nectariferous spur at the base. The capsule is 

 2-celled, bursting at the summit, with reflected teeth. 

 The most common species of the genus is A. Linaria, 

 a perennial with running roots, growing profusely in 



