N. ORD.-SCROPHULARIACEZ:. 4143 
Tribe.—CHELONER. 
GENUS.—CHELONE,* LINN. 
SEX, SYST.—DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
CHELONE GLABRA. 
TURTLE-HEAD. 
SYN.—CHELONE GLABRA, LINN.; CHELONE OBLIQUA, LINN. 
COM. NAMES.—TURTLE-HEAD, SNAKE-HEAD, SHELL-FLOWER, BAL- 
MONY, SALT-RHEUM WEED; (FR.) CHELONE; (GER.) GLATTE, 
CHELONE. 
A TINCTURE OF THE FRESH PLANT CHELONE GLABRA, LINN. 
Description. —This beautiful swamp herb grows to a height of from 2 to 6 feet, 
from a creeping perennial root. The stem is smooth, upright, somewhat obtusely 
four angled, and branching laterally, particularly near the top. It is a question 
though, whether it is really a branching herb, or whether the so-called branches 
are merely elongated peduncles of the lateral axillary flower spikes. The /eaves 
are opposite, either sessile or very short petiolate, broadly lanceolate, serrate and 
pointed, ranging from 2 to 4 inches in length and of various breadths. The 
inflorescence consists of a dense, bracted spike, terminal upon the stem and its 
branches ?; the flowers are sessile, closely imbricated with concave, rounded-ovate, 
sharp-pointed bracts and bractlets. Calyx of five deeply parted or distinct 
imbricated sepals. Corod/a tubular, with either equal or unequal lateral inflations, 
the mouth eithera little open or widely gaping ; "per lip broad-arching, keeled in 
the middle, and either entire or notched at the apex ; /ower /7p 3-lobed at the apex, 
the middle lobe marrow or sometimes smallest. S/amens consisting of four 
didynamous, included, fertile or complete ones and one sterile or rudimentary ; 
filaments flat, woolly, the rudimentary fifth much smaller than the other four ; 
anthers heart-shaped, acuminate, completely connected in pers by the adhesive 
cottony wool; pollen more oF less cylindrically “ hat-shaped, the sulcus being 
between the crown and the rim. Pistil asa whole, projecting beyond the stamens ; 
ovary 2-celled, ovoid ; style long, slender and cylindrical ; stigma small and blunt. 
Fruit a 2-grooved, 2-celled ovoid capsule, ey aekieres by dehiscence through the 
partition, each half carrying a section with ‘it bearing the placente. Seeds 
- numerous, winged and margined. A description of the natural order may be 
found under Verbuscum thapsus, 110. 
the resemblance of the corolla to the head of that reptile. 
* xednvn, tortoise, from 
