236 FIG WORT FAMILY. 



M. Semperflbrens, has lanceolate smooth calyx-divisions, and smaller 

 rose-purple or violet corolla. 



§ 2. LoPHOSPERMUM. Corolla very obscurely 2-Upped, and with 2 bearded lines. 



M. erub6scens. Somewhat soft-pubescent, with irregularly toothed leaves, 

 rose-colored flowers 3' long, and ovate-oblong rather leaf-like sepals 



M. SC^ndens, now less common and not so showy, is less pubescent, and 

 has smaller less-inflated deeper purple corolla, and lance-oblong sepals. 



16. DIGITALIS, FOXGLOVE. (Latin name, from shape of the corolla, 

 likened to the finger of a glove, in the common species.) 



D. purptirea. Purple F., of which varieties with corolla white or pale 

 and more or less strongly spotted corolla are common, 2' long, the lobes rather 

 obscure ; leaves rugose, somewhat downy. Cult, from Eu. : fl. summer. ]^ 



17. GERARDIA. (Named for the herbalist, Gerarde.) Handsome, but 

 uncultivable plants : fl. late summer and autumn. The following are the 

 commonest wild species : mostly of gravelly or sandy soil. 



§ 1. Corolla purple or rose<o1or, somewhat hell-shaped : calyx-teeth short : anthers 

 all alike, nearly pointless at base : leaves narrow, linear or thread-shaped, 

 entire : loosely branching, nearly all annuals, except the first. 



G. linifblia. Pine-barrens S. ; with erect branches, and erect linear leaves 

 about the length of the peduncles, truncate calyx, and corolla 1' long. 2/ 



G. tenuifolia. N. & S. ; with opposite pedicels equalling the linear 

 spreading leaves, broadly awl-shaped calyx-teeth, and corolla ^'- J' long. 



G. fllifblia. S. ; with alternate pedicels twice the length of the rather 

 fleshy thread-shaped or slightly club-shaped leaves ; corolla |' long. 



G. aph;;^lla. S. ; with short pedicels alternate along one side of the 

 flowering branches, and minute scale-like or awl-shaped appressed leaves, 

 minute calyx-teeth, and corolla j' long. 



G. purptirea. N. & S. in low ground ; with stout pedicels not longer 

 than the conspicuously 5-lobed calyx, opposite and spreading rather broad 

 linear leaves, and corolla %' -V long. 



G. maritima. Salt marshes N. & S., lower than the preceding, and with 

 fleshy blunt leaves, the pedicels as long as the upper ones and as the obtusely 

 5-toothed calyx, and corolla \' -%' long. 



§ 2. Corolla purple (or sometimes white) : calyx deeply and unequally b-cleft : 

 anthers pointless, those of the shorter pair much smaller : leaves rather broad. 



G. auriculata. Low grounds, from Penn. S. & W. ; rough-hairy, with 

 nearly simple stem, lanceolate or oblong leaves entire, or the lower with a lobe 

 on each side of the base ; flowers sessile in the upper axils ; corolla 1' long. 



§ 3. Corolla yellow and with a longer tube, the inside woolly, as are the filaments 

 and anthers ; the latter almost projecting, slender-pointed at base : calyx 

 5-cleJl: taller herbs, with leaves or some of them pinnatifid or toothed. 2/ 

 * Stems nearly simple : flowers in a leafy raceme : corolla more tubular. 



G. flava, Downy False Foxglove. Open dry woods: 3°-4° high, 

 minutely soft-downy ; u])pcr leaves lanceolate or oblong and entire, lower sinuate 

 or pinnatifid ; jiedicels vcrv short; corolla 1^' long. 



G. quercifolia, Smooth F. Rich woods, commoner S. & W. : 30 - 6" 

 high, smooth and gliiucoiis ; upper leaves often entire, lower once or twice 

 pinnatifid ; ])cdicels as long as calvx ; corolla 2' long. 



G. integrifolia. Barrens, from Penn. S. &. W. : l°-2° high, smooth, 

 not glaucous ; leaves lanceolate, entire ; corolla 1' long. 



* * Stems hushy-hranrhed : calyx-lobes toothed or pinnatifid : leaves mostly rut. 



G. grandiflbra. (^ak openings from Wisconsin S. : 3° -4° high, minutely 

 downy ; leaves ovate-lanceolate, coarsely cut-toothed, the lower junnatilid ; ped- 

 icels shorter than the barely toothed cajyx-lobes ; corolla 2' long. 



