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nsually pink and white variegated with yellowish and some deeper purple spots 

 on the larger lobe. — There are one or two larger flowered but less common 

 species. 



6. PAXJLOWNIA. (Named for a Russian Princess.) Only one species. 

 P. imperialis, of Japan, cult, for ornament, scarcely hardy far N. ; the 

 hciyt-shaped very ample leaves resembling those of Catalpa but much more 

 downy, tlowers in large terminal panicle, in spring, the violet corolla l|^'-2' 

 long. 



6. VERBASCUM, MULLEIN. (Ancient Latin name.) Natives of the 

 Old World, here weeds, often hybridizing: fl. summer. "^ ® 



V. Th^psus, Common M. Fields : densely woolly, the tall simple stem 

 winged from the bases of the oblong leaves, bearing a long dense spike of yellow 

 (rarely white) flowers. 



V. Lychnltis, White M. Waste places, rather scarce : whitened with 

 thin powdery woolliness, the stem not winged, ovate leaves greenish above, and 

 spikes of yellow or rarely white flowers panicled. 



V. Blatt^ria, Moth M. Roadsides : green and smoothish, 2° - 3° high, 

 slender, with ovate toothed or sometimes cut leaves, and loose raceme of yellow 

 or else white and purplish-tinged flowers. 



7. CELSIA. (Named for 0. Ce/sius, a Swedish Orientalist.) Fl. summer. 



C. Cr6tica, cult, for ornament from the Mediterranean region: 2° -3° 

 high, rather hairy, or the raceme clammy, with lower leaves pinnatifid, ixpper 

 toothed and clasping at base, corolla orange-yellow with some purple ( 1 ' - 2' 

 across), lower pair of filaments naked, the upper pair short and woolly- 

 bearded. (D 



8. ALONSOA. (Named for Alonzo Zanoni, a Spanish botanist.) Cult, as 

 annuals, from South America : fl. all summer. 



A. incissefblia (also called urtic^f6lia) : smoothish, branching, l°-2° 

 high, with huice-ovate or oblong sharply cut-toothed leaves, and orange-scarlet 

 corolla less than 1' wide : several varieties. 



9. VERONICA, SPEEDWELL. (Name of doubtful derivation, perhaps 

 refeiTing to St. Veronica.) Fl. summer. 



§ 1. Shrubby, tender, very hafy species, from New Zealand, with entire and 

 fflo.ssy smooth and nearly sessile evergreen leaves, all opposite, dense many- 

 flowered racemes from the axils, and acutish pods. 



V. specibsa, is smooth throughout, with obovate or oblong blunt or retuse 

 thick leaves, and very dense spike-like racemes of violet-purple flowers. 



V. salicifdlia, has lanceolate acute leaves, and longer clammy-pubescent 

 racemes of blue flowers. 



V. Lindleyana, has oblong-lanceolate pale leaves, and racemes of pale 

 lilac flowers. 



§ 2. Herbs, growing wild, or those of thejirst subdivision cultivated in gardens. 



* Spikes or dense spike-li/ce racemes terminating the erect stem or branches and 

 often clustered. 21 



V. spie^ta, and sometimes V. paniculXta, or hybrids between them, are 

 cult, for ornament, from En.: 9' -2° high, with opposite lanceolate toothed 

 leaves, lobes of mostly blue corolla much longer than the distinct tube, and pod 

 notched at the end. 



V. Virginiea, Culver's root. Wild in rich woods from Vermont W. 

 & S. ; remarkable for the tube of the small whitish corolla longer tlian the 

 acutish lobes and iiinch loniri'r than the calvx ; sinmlc stems 2°-()° liiuli, bear- 

 ing whorls of lanceolate or iancc-ovute pointed liuely serrate leaves ; spikes 

 dense and clustered. 



