294 ACANTHACEiE. (ACANTHUS FAMILY.) 
lanceolate-oblong, acute at both ends ; flower-clusters axillary, short¬ 
er than the oval bracts; calyx-lobes lance-awl-shaped, hairy, as long 
as the corolla. —Low woods and banks, Ohio and southward. — Re¬ 
sembles the preceding in foliage, but the whitish corolla is only 
long, 5-toothed, commonly falling away before expansion. 
Order 69. SCROPHUEARIACEiE. (Figwort Fam.) 
Chiejly herbs , with didynamous or diandrous (or very 
rarely 5 perfect) stamens inserted on the tube of the clip¬ 
ped or more or less irregular corolla , the lobes of which 
are imbricated in the bud: fruit a 2-celled and usually 
many-seeded pod with the placentce in the axis: seeds ana - 
tropous with a small embryo in copious albumen. — Style 
single. Leaves and inflorescence various. 
Synopsis. 
Suborder I. ANTIRRHINIDEjE. The Snapdragon Fam. 
Upper lip of the corolla covering the lobes of the lower in the bud. 
Pod usually septicidal. 
* Corolla nearly wheel-shaped. Leaves all alternate. 
1. Verbascum. Anther-bearing stamens 5. 
* * Corolla tubular, with a palate, and a spur or sac at the base on the 
lower side. Pod opening by 2 chinks or pores. 
2. Linaria. Corolla spurred at the base. Stamens 4. 
* * * Corolla tubular or deeply 2-lipped, not spurred nor sac-like 
below. Pod 2-4-valved. 
•+- Anther-bearing stamens 4, the fifth a scale or sterile filament. 
3. Scrophularia. Corolla inflated, globular or oblong, with a 
short border, the 4 upper lobes erect, the lower one spread¬ 
ing. Rudimentary stamen a scale. 
4. Collinsia. Corolla deeply 2-lipped, gibbous on the upper side; 
the middle lobe of the lower lip keeled-sac-shaped, inclosing 
the stamens. 
5. Chelone. Corolla tubular, inflated above. Anthers woolly- 
Seeds winged. 
6. Pentstemon. Corolla tubular, often enlarging above. See s 
wingless. 
"•* **“ Anther-bearing stamens 4, no rudiment of the fifth- 
7. Mimulus. Calyx prismatic, 5-angled, 5-toothed. Corolla tubular. 
8. Conobea. Calyx 5-parted, the divisions equal. Corolla short. 
9. Herfestis. Calyx 5-parted, unequal, the upper division broad¬ 
est and often largest. Corolla short. 
