380 SCROPHULARIACKA:. (FIGWORT FAMILY.) 



L. GENISTIF6LIA, Mill. Glaucous, pauiculately hranched ; leaves lanceo- 

 late, acute ; flowers smaller and more scattered ; seeds wingless. Sparingly 

 naturalized near New York. (Nat. from Eu.) 



* * * Annual, procumbent, much branched, with broad petioled veiny alternate 

 leaves, and small purplish and yellow flowers from their axils. 



L. ELATINE, Mill. Spreading over the ground, slender, hairy ; leaves has- 

 tate or the lower ovate, much surpassed by the filiform peduncles; calyx-lobes 

 lanceolate, acute ; corolla 3-4" long, including the subulate spur. Sandy 

 banks and shores, Canada to N. C., rather rare. (Nat. from Ku.) 



L. SPURIA, Mill. Like the preceding, but with roundish or cordate leaves 

 and ovate or cordate calyx-lobes. Occasionally occurs on ballast or waste 

 grounds near cities. (Nat. from Eu.) 



3. ANTIRRHINUM, Touru. SNAPDRAGON. 



Corolla saccate at the base, the throat closed by the large bearded palate. 

 Seeds oblong-truncate. Otherwise nearly as Linaria. Corolla commonly 

 showy, resembling the face of an animal or a mask; whence the name (from 

 avri, like, ami p.v, a snout.) Fl. summer and autumn. 



A. ORONTIUM, L. A small-flowered annual or biennial, low, erect; leaves 

 lance-linear ; spike loose, leafy : sepals longer than the purplish or white co- 

 rolla. About gardens and old fields in Atlantic States. (Adv. from Eu.) 



A. M\JUS, L. (LARGE SNAPDRAGON.) A large-flowered perennial, with 

 oblong smooth leaves and a glandular-downy raceme ; sepals short ; corolla 1- 

 2' long, purple or white. Eastward, escaping from gardens. (Adv. from Eu.) 



4. SCROPHULARIA, Tonrn. FIGWORT. 



Calyx deeply 5-cleft. Corolla with a somewhat globular tube ; the 4 upper 

 lobes of the short border erect (the two upper longer), the lower spreading. 

 Stamens 4, declined, with the anther-cells transverse and confluent into one ; 

 the fifth stamen a scale-like rudiment at the summit of the tube of the corolla. 

 Capsule many-seeded. Rank herbs, with mostly opposite leaves, and small 

 greenish-purple or lurid flowers in loose cymes, forming a terminal narrow 

 panicle. (So called because a reputed remedy for scrofula.) 



1. S. nod6sa, L., var. Marilandica, Gray. Smooth perennial (3-5 

 high) ; stem 4-sided ; leaves ovate, oblong, or the upper lanceolate, acuminate, 

 cut-serrate, rounded or rarely heart-shaped at base. Damp grounds, N. Eng. 

 to Fla., west to the Rocky Mts. (Eu., Asia, the type.) 



5. COLLINSIA, Nutt. 



Calyx deeply 5-cleft. Corolla declined, with the tube saccate or bulging at 

 the base on the upper side, deeply 2-lipped ; the upper lip 2-cleft, its lobes 

 partly turned backward , the lower 3-cleft, its middle lobe keeled and sac-like, 

 enclosing the 4 declined stamens and style. Fifth stamen a gland-like rudi- 

 ment. Capsule 4 -many-seeded. Slender branching annuals or biennials, 

 with opposite leaves, and handsome party-colored flowers in umbel-like clus- 

 ters, appearing whorled in the axils of the upper leaves. (Dedicated to the 

 late Zaccheus Collins, of Philadelphia, an accurate botanist.) 



1. C. verna, Nutt. Slender (6-20' high) , lower leaves ovate, the upper 

 ovate-lanceolate, clasping by the heart-shaped base, toothed ; whorls about 6- 

 flowered ; flowers long-peduncled ; corolla (blue and white) twice the length of the 

 calyx. Moist soil, western N. Y. to W. Va., Wise, and Ky. May, June. 



