SCROPHULARIACEAX. (FIGWORT FAMILY.) 299 
Stem 2°-4° high, widely branched. Corolla 1j! long, with a wider tube and 
larger lobes than in No. 3. 
20. GERARDIA, L. 
Calyx bell-shaped, 5-toothed ; the teeth short, acute, entire, Corolla tubular- 
bell-shaped, 5-lobed, the lobes rounded, spreading ; the throat oblique. Stamens 
4, didynamous, the longer ones commonly woolly: anthers woolly, connivent 
in pairs; the cells diverging and pointed at the base. Style slender, dilated, and 
flattened upward. Capsule ovoid or globose, smooth, loculicidal. Seeds nu- 
merous, angled, reticulated. — Chiefly slender branching annuals. Leaves oppo- 
site, or rarely alternate, narrow, entire. Flowers in the axils of the upper leaves, 
showy, purple ; the tube of the corolla mostly dotted with red and yellow, often 
woolly at the throat. 
* Perennial. | 
1. G. linifolia, Nutt. Smooth; branches elongated, erect; leaves erect, 
linear ; peduncles as long as the leaves, or the uppermost longer; calyx truncate, 
with minute teeth; lobes of the corolla nearly equal, fringed on the margins; 
capsule large (3" wide), globose, one third longer than the calyx.— Low pine 
barrens, Florida to North Carolina, and westward. Sept.— Siem 2°-3° high. 
Leaves 1’ long. Corolla 1’ long, pubescent. 
* * Annuals. 
+ Corolla small, the 2 upper lobes short, truncate and erect. 
2. G. divaricata, n. sp. Stem 6’ -12' high, smooth, widely branched 
from the base; leaves all opposite, spreading or reflexed, filiform, roughish on 
the margins, 3 long ; the uppermost minute; pedicels all opposite, setaceous, 
Spreading, the upper ones 4-5 times as long as the leaves; calyx-teeth subulate, 
One third as long as the tube ; corolla 3^ long, the lobes ciliate; capsule ovoid, 
twice as long as the calyx. — Low sandy pine barrens. West Florida. Sept. 
3. G. filicaulis. Stem 6'- 12' long, filiform, reclining, smooth and glau- 
cous ; branches alternate, setaceous; leaves minute, 1" long, subulate, rough; 
flowers few, terminal ; calyx-teeth triangular, one fourth the length of the tube ; 
Corolla 4—5” long, compressed, the lobes slightly fringed ; capsule globose, 
One third longer than the calyx. (G. aphylla, var. filicaulis, Benth.?) — Low 
grassy pine barrens, West Florida. Sept. ; ps 
2 + + Lobes of the corolla nearly equal, spreading. —— oo 
‘+ Pedicels as long, or twice as long, as the calyx, shorter than the leaves. 
4. G. aphylla, Nutt. Stem 2°-3° high, smooth, 4-angled, sparingly 
branched near the summit; leaves minute, 1" long, subulate, appressed ; flowers 
mostly alternate, on one side of the spreading branches ; pedicel as long as the 
calyx; calyx-teeth minute, obtuse ; corolla J long, hairy within, the upper lobes 
; capsule globose, 2" long, twice as long as the calyx. — Low sandy pine _ 
ns, Florida to North Carolina, and westward. Sept. des 
5. Œ. purpurea, L. Stem 19-39 high, smooth, the branches elongated; — 
leaves’ opposite, broadly or narrowly linear, rough above, 1! - 1)'long; flowers — 
