SCROPHULARIACE. (FIGWORT FAMILY.) 289 
anther-cells transverse and confluent into one. Capsule many-seeded. — Tall 
herbs, with opposite leaves, and greemlish-purple flowers in loose cymes, forming 
a narrow panicle. 
1. S. nodosa, L. Smooth; stem 4-sided; branches elongated, spreading ; 
leaves ovate or oblong, or the uppermost lanceolate, acute, serrate, rounded or 
cordate at the base; flowers small. (S. Marilandica, Z.) — Shady banks and 
thickets, Florida to Mississippi, and northward. Sept. — Stem 29 — 5? high. 
3. CHELONE, Tourn. SwaAKE-HEAD. 
Calyx 5-parted or 5-sepalous, bracted. Corolla inflated-tubular, contracted at 
the throat, bilabiate; the upper lip concave, emarginate; the lower obtusely 
3-lobed, woolly in the throat. Stamens 4, with the filaments and cordate anthers 
woolly, and a fifth sterile one shorter than the others. Seeds imbricated, broadly 
winged. — Smooth perennial herbs, with opposite serrate leaves, and large white 
or purple flowers in short dense bracted spikes. 
l. C. glabra, L. Stem simple or branched, 4-sided ; leaves lanceolate or 
oblong, acute or acuminate, on very short petioles; spike terminal, imbricated, 
nearly sessile, simple or branched; bracts and sepals ovate; corolla white or 
rose-color. (C. obliqua, Z.)— Wet banks of streams, Florida and northward, 
rare in the lower districts. Sept. — Stem 2° high. Leaves 2' 4! long, some- 
times pubescent beneath. Corolla 1" — 13/ long, concave beneath. 
2. C. Lyoni, Porch. Stem simple or branched; leaves ovate or oyate- 
oblong, rounded or cordate at the base, acuminate, serrate, conspicuously peti- 
oled, mostly pubescent on the veins beneath ; spike sessile, simple or branched ; 
bracts and calyx-lobes ovate, ciliate ; flowers purple. (C. latifolia, Muhl., leayes 
acute at the base.) — Mountains of North Carolina. Sept. — Stem 29 - 39 high. 
Leaves 4' — 6' long, thinner, and the flowers smaller than in the preceding. 
4. PENTSTEMON, L'Her. 
Calyx 5-parted. Corolla inflated-tubular, or somewhat bell-shaped, open at 
the throat, bilabiate; the upper lip rounded, concave, emarginate or 2-lobed ; 
the lower 3-lobed. Stamens 4, declined at the base, and a fifth sterile one as 
long as the others, and commonly bearded above. Capsule 2-valved, many- 
‘Seeded. Seeds wingless. — Erect perennial herbs, with opposite leaves, and 
White or purple flowers in axillary and terminal cymes, forming a close or open 
harrow terminal panicle, 
* Leaves pinnately divided, 
l. P. dissectus, Ell. Smooth or minutely pubescent; divisions of the - 
leaves linear, obtuse, entire or sparingly lobed ; cymes few-flowered, long-pedun- 
cled ; corolla somewhat bell-shaped, with rounded and nearly equal lobes; an- - 
‘ther-cells smooth, spreading ; sterile stamen bearded at the apex. — Dry » dt 
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