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SCROPHULAEIACE^. 125 



In shady lanes and moist places. Rare. Cornwall, Devon, 

 and Tralee, co. Kerry ; plentiful in Jersey and Guernsey. 



England, Ireland. Perennial. Summer and Autumn. 



Stem 18 inches to 4 feet high, nearly round, with 4 slightly 

 elevated lines. Leaves 2 to G inches long, sometimes with the 

 margins almost lobed, at other times only doubly crenate or 

 crenate-serrate, finely hairy on both sides, especially beneath. 

 Elowers ^ inch long, resembling those of S. aquatica, but the 

 upper lip is 2-partite, being divided to the base instead of only to 

 the middle. In the general habit and inflorescence it bears some 

 resemblance to S. Ehrliarti : the capsule, though it is not gradually 

 tapering, but suddenly acuminated, could scarcely be called obtuse 

 and apiculate, as in that species. The shape of the leaves differs 

 from that of all the other species, though they sometimes bear 

 a slight resemblance to those of S. nodosa. The hairiness of the 

 stem and leaves distinguishes it from all the species which have 

 been mentioned. 



Balm-leaved Figwort. 



French, Scrophulaire ct Feuilles de Sauge. 



Section IL— CEEAMANTHE. Belch. 



Corolla-tube contracted at the throat; limb nearly regular. 

 Stamens 4, without any rudiment of a fifth. 



SPECIES V—SCROPHULARIA VERNALIS. Linn. 



Plate DCCCCLI. 



Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XX. Tab. MDCLXXVI. Fig. 2. 

 Ceramanthe vernalis, Reich. "Sax. Fl. p. 230." Reich. Jil. 1. c. p. 27. 



Rootstock not tuberous. Stem bluntly quadrangular, with the 

 angles not winged. Leaves ovate-deltoid, with unwinged petioles, 

 acute, coarsely doubly serrate or crenate-serrate, without lateral 

 lobes from the petiole, the lower ones cordate at the base. Elowers 

 in dense axillary corymbose cymes arranged in an elongate lax 

 panicle. Bracts all like the leaves. Pedicels slender, thickly 

 clothed with long gland-tipped hairs, shorter than the calyx at the 

 time of flowering. Divisions of the calyx oblong, without scarious 

 margins. Tube of the corolla twice as long as the calyx, urceolate. 

 Abortive stamen absent. Capsule ovate-conical, acute. Stem, 

 petioles, leaves, and peduncles clothed with jointed glandular 

 hairs ; pedicels and calyces with gland-tipped hairs. 



