552 SCROPHULARIACEAE 
terminal spikes; corolla wheel-form with the 5 lobes unequal. Stamens 
5, leaning outward, all fertile. Calyx 5-parted or 5-cleft. 
1. V. Thapsus, L. GREAT MULLEN. VELVET PLANT. Stem erect, 
sometimes with one or two branches above, 2 to 7 ft. high. Leaves large 
(4 to 12 in. long), with small teeth or none, the base of the leaf running 
down the stem each side, making winged angles to the stem; whole plant 
rough, with dense wool. Flowers in long club-shaped spikes, yellow; sta- 
mens unequal. In dry fields and waste places. June-Sept. 
2. V. phlomoides, L. (Fig. 3, pl. 140.) CLASPING-LEAVED MULLEN. 
Similar to the last, but usually less high and less stout. The leaves, 
which in V. Thapsus, extend along the stem below the insertion, in this 
species are scarcely or not at all decurrent. Introduced in parts of New 
England from Europe. Also on Long Island. June-Aug. 
3. V. Lychnitis, L. (Fig. 2, pl. 140.) Wuirre MuLien. Stem angled, 
considerably branched, 2 to 5 ft. high; the whole plant white with short 
soft hairs except the upper surface of the leaves. Leaves oblong to ob- 
long-lance-shaped, with rounded teeth at borders, tapering at each end, 
2 to 7 in. long. Flowers white or cream-color, in a pyramidal cluster of 
many flowered spikes. Mostly in southern or western part of our area, 
in dry waste places. June-Sept. 
4, V. Blattaria, L. (Fig. 1, pl. 140.) Morn Mutiten. Stem erect, 
branching above, 1 to 3 ft. high, without hairs or only slightly downy. 
Leaves oblong, egg-shaped or lance-shaped, broad and clasping the stem 
at base, tapering toward the apex, with coarse rounded teeth at margins. 
Flowers in a terminal slender spike, yellow or white, marked with brown 
at the back; spike 2 to 12 in. long, with narrow bracts at the base of the 
flowers. Stamens purplish, unequal. Dry fields, waste grounds. June- 
Sept. 
2z. ELATINOIDES, Wetts 
Spreading or creeping herbs, with veins spreading from mid-vein. 
Flowers 2-lipped with a conspicuous spur at base of tube. Throat of co- 
rolla closed by a sort of palate. Stamens 4, inclosed within the corolla. 
Flowers solitary from the leaf-axils. 
1. E. spuria, (L.) Wetts. (Fig. 9, pl. 140.) Rounp-Leavep Toap 
Fuax. (Linaria spuria, (u.) Mill.) Leaves nearly round, blunt at apex, 
heart-shaped at base, without leaf-stalks. Flowers yellowish-purple. 
Waste places. From Europe. June-Sept. 
2. E. Elatine, (L.) Wetts. (Fig. 10, pl. 140.) SmArp-porntep ToapD 
Fuiax. (Linaria elatine, (l.) Mill.) Leaves arrow-shaped on short leaf- 
stalks, downy. Corolla yellowish-purple. From Europe. Waste places. 
June-Sept. 
3. LINARIA, Juss. 
Herbs, with alternate leaves (at least the upper ones) with simple 
margins and with flowers axillary or in terminal clusters, ours spikes. Co- 
roHa 2-lipped, the throat nearly closed; a conspicuous spur extending 
backward from the tube of the corolla, Calyx 5-parted, the parts nearly 
equal. Capsule oval or globose. 
