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8. M. pilosus, Wat. A sjjan to a foot liigh, much branched, soft, villous and 

 filightly viscid, many flowered from near the Inase; leaves lanceolate to narrowly oblong, 

 Bcssile, entire; calyx tube not prismatic; corolla yellow, obscurely bilabiate, 3 or -4 lines 

 long, usually a jjair of brown-purple spots on the lower lobe. 



7. LIMOSELLA, L. :Mudwort. 



Calj'x campanulate. Corolla rotatc-campanulate, nearly regular. Style short; stigma 

 thickish. — Diminutive annuals, with narrow fleshy leaves in clusters around the 1 -flow- 

 ered scapes. Flower small, white or purplish. 



1. L. aquatica, L. An inch to a span high, growing in brackish mud or in fresh 

 water. 



8. VERONICA, L. 



The lower lobe and sometimes the lateral ones of the rotate corolla sometimes smaller 

 than the others. Stamens 2, one on each side of the upper lobe of the corolla. Cap- 

 sules compressed. Flowers small (a line or two broad), in racemes or spikes, or solitary 

 in the axils; blue, purplish, or white. 



1. V. Americana, Schw. Stems a span to two feet long; leaves ovate or oblong, 

 serrate, rather succulent, short-petioled, an inch or two long, opposite. Flowers in axil- 

 lary racemes, bluisli, with purple stripes. Common in damp places. 



2. V. peregrina, L. A span or more high, all the upper leaves altcniatc, linear- 

 oblong; flowers minute, in the axils of the leaves, and mostly narrow bracts; cajjsulo 

 obcordate. 



9. CASTILLEIA, Mutis. Painted-Cup. 



Calyx tubular, more or less cleft in front or behind, or both; the lobes 2 and lateral, or 

 4. Corolla tubular, laterally compressed, especially the long upi)cr lip (galea); the lower 

 lip very short or minute, 3-too\;hed, and somewhat saccate below the short teeth; tho 

 tube usually inclosed in the calyx. Stamens 4, inclosed in tho galea; anthers 2-celled, 

 the long cells unequal, the outer fixed by the middle, the inner ones smaller, pendulous. 

 Style long; the capitate stigma sometimes 2-lobed. Herbs, sometimes woody at tho base, 

 with mostly alternate, sessile leaves, the floral ones or their tips, as well as the caly:« 

 lobes, commonly petaloid and colored red, yellow, or white. Flowers in terminal, simple, 

 leafy spikes. 



1, C. affinis, Hook. & Arn. Annual; a foot or two high; leaves narrowly lanceo- 

 late, entire; the upper floral bracts usually broader, the apex tootlied, red; spike M'ith 

 scattered, frequently i)cdicellate flowers below; calyx red; an inch long, its front fissure 

 hardly twice as deep as the back one, the narrow lobes acutely 2-cleft; corolla 1 to 1^ 

 inches long, cxscrted so as to expose the callous lip; tiie galea about equal to the tube, 

 yellowish or tipped with red. 



2. C. latifolia, Hook. & Arn. Perennial (as are all tho following); branching from 



