560 SCROPHULARIACEAE 
13. ILYSANTHES, Raf. 
Branching herbs, with opposite leaves and small 2-lipped, purple flowers 
singly in the leaf-axils, the flower stems without bracts. Fertile stamens 
2, sterile stamens 2, Fruit a rounded, many-seeded capsule. 
l. I. gratioloides, (L.) Benth. (Fig. 12, pl. 142.) LoNG-STALKED 
FALSE PIMPERNEL. Stem slender, much branched, 2 to 8 in. high. Leaves 
egg-shaped, clasping the stem by the heart-shaped bases, somewhat acute 
at apex, a few teeth at margins. Flowers single in the axils on flower 
stems much exceeding the leaves in length. Corolla purple. Wet places, 
New. England, southward. July-Sept. 
2. I. attenuata, (Muhl.) Small. (Fig. 13, pl. 142.) SHorv-sTALKep 
FALSE PIMPERNEL. Plant generally rather larger than No. 1, and flowers 
on flower stems shorter than the leaves. Wet places, Maine, southward 
and westward, May-Oct. 
144 MICRANTHEMUM, Michx. 
Very small herbs, smooth, creeping or nearly erect, tufted, growing in 
mud or shallow water. Leaves opposite, calyx 4- or 5-parted; corolla very 
irregular, 2-lipped, the upper considerably shorter than the lower or ab- 
sent. Stamens 2. Style short, many-seeded capsule globose. 
M. micranthemoides, Wettst. (Fig. 14, pl. 142.) Nurraty’s Mr- 
CRANTHEMUM, (MM. Nuttallii, Gray.) Stem 1 to 2 in. high. Leaves oval or 
egg-shaped, 1/12 to 1/6 in. long. Calyx 4-toothed, bell-shaped. Corolla 
very irregular, upper lip nearly or quite wanting, the middle lobe of lower 
lip much longer than the lateral lobes. Appendages at base of stamens 
about as long as stamens. Tidal mud. Aug.-Oct. 
15. LIMOSELLA, L. 
Small plants growing in mud, usually by the sea shore, creeping by 
slender runners, with long-linear or spatulate leaves and small, white or 
pink flowers on flower stems directly from the base of the plant. Calyx 
5-lobed; corolla nearly regular, the border 5-cleft. Stamens 4; style club- 
shaped; the many-seeded capsule globular. 
L. aquatica, L. (Fig. 9, pl. 142.) Narrow-LEAvep Mupwort. Stems 
only in the form of rimners, no upright stem. Leaves linear or thread- 
like, 1 to 5 in, long, in a group arising from a notched node. Flowers also 
arising by a flower stem shorter than the leaves from the root node, single. 
Muddy shores of tidal streams, June-Sept. 
Var. tenuifolia, Wolf. (Fig. 10, pl. 142.) Leaves linear, thread-like. 
16. VERONICA, L. 
Herbs (some exotic species trees and shrubs), with opposite or, less 
frequently, alternate leaves and small flowers, terminal or in the axils. 
Calyx 4-parted, rarely 5-parted; corolla flat, rounded, border generally 
4-parted, the lower lobe usually narrow, the upper broader. Stamens 2, 
extending beyond the corolla. Style entire. Capsule compressed, flattened 
or turgid, many seeded. 
