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stems, viscid, pubescent with simple whitish hairs. Leaves ovate, 

 obtuse, tapering at base to a short petiole. Flowers in umbels, 

 corolla violet, rotate. Berries purplish or green, as large as peas. 

 This was seen on Bubbs Creek. 



Nicotiana attenuata Torr. Stems simple or branching, viscid. 

 Leaves at base chiefly, ovate to oblong and elliptical, about an 

 inch wide and two inches long, on petioles half as long as the blade. 

 Stem leaves lanceolate acuminate, on short petioles. Flowers 

 dirty white, in a loose terminal raceme, salver- form, the tube an 

 inch long and the border less than half as wide. Pod exceeding 

 the calyx, which consists of long and slender divisions about half 

 an inch long. Bubbs Creek. 



SCROPHULARIACE/C. FiGwoRT Family. 



KEV XO XHK GEPiElTA. 



COROLLA TUBULAR, 2-LIPPED. 



Tube with a sac or swelling at base, throat with a palate on the 

 lower lip ; stamens 4 ; pods opening by 1-2 holes at top. 

 Antirrhinum, Snap-dragon. 



Tube short, with a swelling at the base on the upper side ; upper 

 lip with 2 spreading divisions, lower 3-lobed, the middle lobe 

 compressed at the sides and enclosing the 4 stamens ; fifth 

 stamen in the form of a small gland at the base of the tube. 

 . . Collinsia. 



Tube globular, upper lip of 4, erect lobes, lower turned down or 

 spreading ; stamens 4, in 2 pairs, the fifth in the form of a scale 

 on the upper side of the throat of the corolla. 

 Scrophularia, Bee-plant. 



Tube swelling towards the throat, upper lip 2-lobed, lower 

 3-cleft; stamens with anthers 4, the fifth a conspicuous fila- 

 ment without an anther. . Pentstemon, Beard-tongue. 



Upper lip long, erect and pointed, lower short, 3-toothed and with 

 3 folds below the teeth ; calyx and bracts colored like a corolla, 

 the latter with 4 divisions ; stamens 4, enclosed in the upper 

 lip. Castilleia, Painters-brush. 



Upper lip compressed at the sides and arched, often with a long 

 beak, the lower with 3 reflexed or spreading lobes, the middle 

 one smallest ; stamens 4, in the upper lip ; calyx 2-5-toothed, 

 irregular. . . , Pedicularis. 



Lobes of the corolla spreading, 2 forming the upper lip and 3 the 

 lower ; calyx bell-shaped, 5-toothed, and with 5 folds or angles 

 enclosing the corolla tube ; stamens 4, with the anther cells 

 diverging Mimulus, Monkey-flower. 



COROLLA NOT TUBULAR. 



Calyx and corolla 4-parted, with the lobes more or less unequal ; 

 stamens 2; pod inversely heart-shaped, flowers small. 

 Veronica, Speedwell. 



