SCROPHULARIACEZ. (FIGWORT FAMILY.) 297 
1. B. elongata, Swartz, Rough with short rigid hairs; stem mostly 
simple; leaves entire or slightly toothed, l-nerved, or obscurely 3-nerved ; . 
the lowest obovate or obovate-oblong, obtuse, the lower stem-leaves narrowly 
lanceolate ; the uppermost distant, acute ; spikes interrupted, long-peduncled ; 
flowers opposite or alternate. — Low pine barrens, Florida, Georgia, and west- 
ward. July and Aug. --Stem 1°+2° high. Corolla 4''--5'' long. 
2. B. Americana, L. Very rough, with bristly hairs ; stem often branch- 
ing above; leaves prominently 3-nerved, mostly toothed ; the lower ones oblong, 
obtuse, the others lanceolate, acute; calyx-teeth acuminate. — Low pine barrens, 
Florida to Mississippi, and northward. July and Aug.— Stem 29-39 high. 
Corolla 6'/ - 7/4 long. 
16. SEYMERBRIA, Pursh. 
Calyx 5-parted. Corolla bell-shaped, 5-lobed, the lobes oblong. Stamens 4, 
equal, the filaments woolly: anthers oblong, opening at the apex, awnless. 
Style simple, obtuse. Capsule ovate, flattened above, loculicidally 2-valved. 
Seeds numerous, covered by the loose hyaline testa. — Chiefly annuals. Stems 
erect, branching. Leaves opposite, pinnately divided. Flowers yellow, in ter- 
minal leafy-bracted racemes. 
1. S. tenuifolia, Pursh. Smooth or nearly so; stem with elongated 
erect-spreading branches ; leaves pinnate, the entire or lobed divisions filiform ; 
capsule smooth, acute at the base, shorter than the pedicel. — Low pine barrens, 
Florida to North Carolina, and westward. Aug. and Sept. — Stem 2°-4° 
high. 
2. S. pectinata, Pursh. Viscid-pubescent; stem with ascending branches ; 
leaves pinnatifid, the entire obtuse divisions oblong-linear ; capsule hairy, obtuse 
at the base, as long as the pedicel. — Dry sandy soil, Florida to South Carolina, 
and westward, July- Sept. — Stem 6/ — 18! high. 
17. MACRANTHERA, Torr. 
Calyx 5-cleft, the lobes elongated. Corolla cylindrical, 5-toothed ; the teeth 
teflexed. Stamens 4, equal, long-exserted, woolly : anthers large, oblong, ap- 
Proximate. Style simple, filiform, elongated: stigma minute, flat. Capsule 
Ovate, loculicidally 2-valved, many-seeded. — A tall biennial, with pinnatifid 
Opposite leaves, and showy orange-colored flowers, in terminal leafy racemes. 
1. M. fuchsioides, Torr. Smoothish; stem branching, 4-sided ; earliest 
leaves ovate-oblong, entire ; those of the stem lyrate-pinnatifid, with the lobes 
denticulate ; the uppermost toothed-serrate ; pedicels slender, recurved, the 
-Upper ones longer than the floral leaves; flowers erect; calyx-lobes lanceolate, 
iculate, rather shorter than the corolla.— Var. Leconte has the shorter 
and narrower lobes of the calyx entire. (M. Lecontei, Torr.) — Marshy banks 
Of pine-barren streams, Georgia, Florida, and westward. Sept. and Oct.— Stem 
9-5? high. Earliest leaves 6 — 8’ long ; those of the stem 2!~4! | 
rolla 9/-12"]ong.— The plant turns black in drying. — 
