290 SCROPHULARIACEiE. Sei/meria. 



H— Capsule ovate and graduallv acuminate, 4 or 5 lines long, glabrous or nearly so : anthers sagit- 

 tate, the cells very acute. 



S. scabra, Gray. Plispidulous-scabrous, not glandular, slender, 2 feet liigh : leaves 

 sparingly pinnately parted into few narrow linear divisions, or the upper few-loLed or 

 entire : calyx-lobes subulate-linear : corolla glabrous. — Bot. Mex. Bound. 118. — Mountains 

 near Rio Limpio, S. W. Texas, Wvi(jht. 

 -1— •)— Capsule broadly ovate and merely acute, 2 lines long, glandular-hairy: anthers very obtuse. 



S. pectinata, Pursh, 1. c. Minutely viscid-pubescent or glabrate, about a foot higb, 

 slender : leaves pinnately parted into rather few short- or oblong-linear divisions, or the 

 upper incisely few-toothed or entire: calyx-lobes linear: corolla hairy outside, especially 

 in the bud. —Ell. Sk. ii. 122 ; Chapm. Fl. 207. — Dry sandy soil, N. Carolina to Florida and 

 Alabama, and perhaps to Texas. 



S. bipinnatisecta, Seem. Very glandular-pubescent and viscid, a foot or two high, 

 stouter : leaves rather copiously 1-3-pinnately parted ; the divisions from linear to oblong, 

 small, often incisely toothed; even the bracts and sometimes the oblong-linear calyx-lobes 

 lobed or incised : corolla somewhat glandular-pubescent outside. — Bot. Herald, 323, t.59; 

 Gray in Bot. Mex. Bound. 117, as var. Te.nma, with short pedicels, &c. ; but early flowers 

 more slenderpedicelled. — W. and S. Texas, Lindheimer, Wright, Bigelow, &c. (N. Mex.) 



§ 2. Style short, with enlarged and compressed tip : corolla densely woolly 

 within above the insertion of the very woolly filaments : anthers oblong, freely 

 dehiscent to base : leaves ample. — § Di-achyrpie, Benth. 



S. macroph^Ua, Nutt. Somewhat pubescent or glabrate ; stems rather simple, 4 or 



5 feet high : lower leaves pinnately parted, and the divisions lanceolate and incisely toothed 

 or pinnatifid ; upper leaves lanceolate or oblong, mostly entire : flowers very short-podi- 

 celled in the axils of the upper leaves and bracts : calyx-lobes from oval to lanceolate, 

 about the length of the tube : corolla barely half inch long ; the ovate lobes not longer 

 than the tube: capsule globose-ovate, with a flat mucronate point. — Gen. ii. 49; Benth. 

 in DC. I.e. Gerardia indcrn/Jii/lla, TiQnth. in Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 205. — River banks and 

 copses, Ohio to Illinois, Arkansas, and Texas. 



28. MACR ANTHER A, Torr. (May.n6g, long, and di'dt]od, wcrd used for 

 anther, but it is here the filaments which are long.) — Genus of a single species, 

 most related to Esterhazya of Brazil. Fl. autumn. 



M. fuchsioides, Torr. Tall biennial, minutely puberulent or glabrate, 3 to 5 feet high, 

 with some strict virgate branches : leaves all opposite, short-petioled, from entire to pin- 

 natifid or piimately parted (the larger 4 to 8 inches long) ; uppermost reduced to linear or 

 lanceolate bracts of the elongated virgate raceme: pedicels (near an inch long) divaricate 

 or decurved with incurved apex, so that the flowers are erect : tube of the calyx very 

 short and broad ; the divisions distant, narrowly linear or somewhat spatulate, often pin- 

 natifid-incised, rather shorter than the minutely puberulent orange-colored corolla : tube of 

 the latter cylindrical, half to three-fourths inch long, slightly curved at summit; the lobes 

 ovate, about 2 lines long: filaments with short and lax glandular beard: anthers less 

 bearded or glabrate; the linear cells mucronate-pointed at base. — Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 203, 



6 Ann. Lyc\ N. Y. iv. 81 ; Benth. 1. c, & DC. Prodr. x. 513 ; Chapm. Fl. 207. Conrudia 

 fuchsioides, Nutt. Jour. Acad. Philad. vii. 88, t. 11, 12. Dasi/stoma t.uhtdosn, Bertol. Misc. 13, 

 t. 3. — Pine barrens, Georgia, Alabama, and Florida (not "Louisiana "), Dr. Gates, &c. 



Var. Lecontei, Chapm. l. c. Calyx smaller, with subulate wholly entire lobes 

 Tisually much shorter than the tube of the corolla : but passing into the preceding form. — 

 M. Lecontei, Torr. 1. c. 83, t. 4. — Lower Georgia, LeConte. Middle Florida, Chapman. 



29. GERARDIA, L. (John Gerarde, the English herbalist of the 16th 

 century.) — Annual or perennial erect and branching herbs (all American and 

 mostly of Atlantic U. S.) ; with mainly opposite leaves, the uppermost reduced to 

 bracts of the racemose or paniculate showy flowers. Corolla rose-purple or yel- 

 low ; the former color rarely varying to white. Fl. late summer and autumn. 



