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SCROPHULARIACEAE. (FIGWORT FAMILY.) 
1- S. Americana^ L. — Wet sandy soil, Sandwich, Massachu¬ 
setts, to New Jersey and southward. May - July. Plant 1°-2P high. 
21, EUPHRASIA, Tourn. Eye-bright. 
Calyx tubular or bell-shaped, 4-cleft. Upper lip of the corolla 
scarcely arched, 2-lobed, the lobes broad and spreading-: lower lip 
spreading, 3-cleft, the lobes obtuse or notched : palate not plaited. 
Stamens 4, under the upper lip : anther-cells equal, pointed at the 
base. Pod oblong, flattened. Seeds numerous, oblong, grooved 
lengthwise. — Herbs with branching stems, and opposite toothed 
or cut leaves. Flowers small, in one-sided terminal spikes. 
(Name ev^pao-ta, cheerfulness , in allusion to its reputed medicinal 
properties.) 
1. E. Officinalis, L. (Common Eye-bright.) Low; leaves 
ovate, oblong, or lanceolate, the lowest crenate, the floral bristly- 
toothed ; lobes of the lower lip of the (white or reddish) corolla deep¬ 
ly notched. ® — Alpine summits of the White Mountains, New 
Hampshire, Oakes: a dwarf variety, l'-5' high, with very small 
flowers. 
2 2. RHINANTHUS, L. Yellow-rattle. 
Calyx membranaceous, flattened, much inflated in fruit, 4-tooth- 
ed. Upper lip of the corolla arched, ovate, obtuse, flattened, en¬ 
tire at the summit, but furnished with a minute tooth on each side 
below the apex ; lower lip 3-lobed. Stamens 4, under the upper 
lip: anthers approximate, hairy, transverse; the cells equal, 
pointless. Style thread-form, entire, with a minute obtuse stig¬ 
ma. Pod orbicular, flattened, manv-seeded. Seeds orbicular, 
winged. — Annual upright herbs, with opposite leaves; the lower 
oblong or linear; the upper lanceolate, toothed ; the floral round¬ 
ed and cut-serrate with bristly teeth ; the solitary yellow flowers 
nearly sessile in their axils, and crowded in a one-sided spike. 
(Name composed of piv, a snout , and avOos > a flower, from the 
beaked upper lip of the corolla in some species formerly referred 
to this genus.) 
1. R. Crista-giiHi, L. (Common Yellow-rattle.) Smooth, 
or a little hairy above; leaves oblong or lanceolate ; seeds broadly 
winged (when ripe they rattle in the large inflated calyx, whence the 
English popular name). — Moist meadows, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
(introduced ?), and White Mountains, N. Hampshire, Tuckerman and 
Oakes. 
