288 SCROl'HULAUIACK.K. (PIGWOBT FAMILY.) 



+- *• ■>- Stamens 4 Flowers mcemed or spiked. 

 h+ Anthers 1-cclled. 

 15. HUCIINERA. Corolla salver-shaped. Stamens didynamous. Dowers spiked. 

 <-► <-► Anthers 2-celled Stamens equal. 

 I MERIA. Corolla bell Bhaped, yellow. Stamens included. 



17. MACRANTHERA. Corolla tabular, orange. Stamens loug-exserted. 



•i-f «+ ++ Anthers 2-celled. Stamens didynamous. 



18. OTOPHYLLA. Anthers unequal. Corolla bell-shaped. Upper leaves 2-eared at the base. 



19. DASYSTOMA. Anthers equal, awned at the base. Corolla funnel-shaped, yellow. Leaves 



mostly piuuatifid. 



20. QERARDIA. Anthers equal, pointed at the base. Corolla bell-shaped, purple. Leaves 



narrow, entire. 

 • « Corolla tubular, 2-lipped ; the upper lip arching and enclosing the 4 didynamous stamens. 

 *- Anther-cells unequal. 



21. CASTII.LEIA. Anther-cells separate. Leaves alternate, the floral ones colored. 



-i- -i- Anther-cells equal. 



22. SCIIYA'ALBEA. Calyx 10 - 12-ribbed, the upper teeth smaller. Capsule oblong, many- 



seeded. Leaves entire, alternate. • 



23. PEDICULA1US. Capsule sword-shaped, few-seeded. Leaves pinnatitid. 



24. MELAMPYRUM. Calyx 4-cleft. Capsule flat, 1-4-seeded. Lpper leaves bristly-toothed 



at the base. 



1. VERBASCUM, L. Mullein. 



Calyx 5-parted. Corolla rotate, B-lobed ; the lubes nearly equal, roundish. 

 Stamens 5, declined, all, or a part of them, bearded. Stigma simple. Capsule 

 globose, many-seeded. — Tall biennial herbs. Leaves alternate. Flowers in 

 racemes. 



1. V. Thapsus, L. Woolly throughout; stem stout, simple; leaves 

 slightly erenate, rugose; the lowest large, oblong, petioled, the others broadly 

 (1 •current on the stem ; raceme spike-like, dense, cylindrical ; Bowers yellow. — 

 < (Id fields and waste ground. Introduced. — Stem 2°-5° high. Lowest leaves 

 1° long. Raceme rigid, 1° - 2° long. 



2. V. Blattaria, L. Stem smooth below, pubescent above, sparingly 

 branched or simple; leaves smooth, oblong, acute, serrate or pinnately lobed; 

 the lowest petioled; the upper clasping; racemes elongated, glandular, the 

 flowers scattered ; corolla bright or pale yellow ; filaments all bearded with 

 purple hairs. — Waste ground, chiefly in the upper districts. Introduced. — 

 Stem 2° --'i high. 



8. V. Lychnitis, L. Plant mealy-white ; stem branching and angled 

 above ; leaves ovate, acute, Bessile ; the lowest nan-owed into a petiole, greenish 



above; (lowers in a pyramidal panicle, yellow; filaments bearded with white 

 hair-. — In Carolina, Muhlenberg. Introduced. 



2. SCROPHULARIA, L. Fiowobt. 



Calyx 5-parted, Corolla globose or oblong, 5-cleft ; the 4 upper lobes erect, 

 with the- two uppermost longer; the lowest spreading. Stamens 4, declined j 



the fifth sterile and Male Like, placed near the orifice of the tube of the corolla; 



