SCROPHULARIACEjE. (figwort family.) 305 
floral rather shorter than the recurved peduncles; calyx-lobes trian¬ 
gular and somewhat heart-shaped, acute, at length erect; ovary 4- 
ovuled ; the turgid and wrinkled pod 2-4-seeded.— Shady rocks and 
hills, Long Island to Penn.; sparingly naturalized. March - May. 
16. BECHNERA, L. Blue-Hearts. 
Calyx tubular, obscurely nerved, 5-toothed. Corolla salver- 
form, with a straight or curved tube, and an almost equally 5-cleft 
limb ; the lobes oblong or obovate, flat. Stamens 4, included, 
approximate in pairs : anthers one-celled (the other cell wanting). 
Style club-shaped and entire at the apex. Pod 2-valved, many- 
seeded.— Perennial rough-hairy herbs, turning blackish in dry¬ 
ing, with opposite leaves, or the uppermost alternate ; the flowers 
opposite in a terminal spike, bracted and with 2 bractlets. (Nam¬ 
ed in honor of/. G. Buchner , an early German botanist.) 
1. B. Americana, L. Rough-hairy; stem mostly simple 
and wand-like; lower leaves obovate-oblong, obtuse, the others ob¬ 
long and lanceolate, sparingly and coarsely toothed, veiny; the up¬ 
permost linear-lanceolate, entire; spike interrupted; calyx longer 
than the bracts, one third the length of the deep purple corolla. — 
Moist places, Penn, and W. New York ( Sarticell). June - Aug. — 
Stem l°-2° high: leaves 2'-3Mong. Corolla hairy, V long, with 
pretty large wedge-obovate lobes. 
17. SEYUfERIA, Pursh. Seymeria. 
Calyx bell-shaped, deeply 5-cleft. Corolla with a short and 
broad tube not longer than the 5 ovate or oblong nearly equal and 
spreading lobes. Stamens 4, somewhat equal: anthers approxi¬ 
mate by pairs, oblong, 2-celled, the cells equal and pointless. 
Pod many-seeded. — Erect branching herbs, with the leaves most¬ 
ly opposite and dissected or pinnatifid, the uppermost alternate 
and bract-like. Flowers yellow, interruptedly racemed or spiked. 
(Named by Pursh after Henry Seymer , an English naturalist.) 
1- S. macrophylla, Nutt. Rather pubescent; stem tall; 
leaves large, the lower pinnately divided, with the broadly lanceolate 
divisions pinnatifid and incised; the upper lanceolate, entire or ser¬ 
rate ; tube of the corolla broad and incurved, very woolly inside, as 
are the filaments except their apex ; style short, dilated and notched 
at the point; pod ovate, flattened and pointed at the apex. — Shady 
banks of the Little Miami, Ohio, Nuttall. July. 
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