01- COMM'.N CANADIAN WILD PLAN I- 



is not uncommon in the northern parts of Ontario. HO\\.I> 

 yollo\v. I, caves awl-shaped. 



. PINUUIC'ULA, L. BUTTKBWOBT. 



P. VUlga'ris, L. A small and stemless perennial growing on 

 damp rocks. Scapes 1-flowurcd. Leaves entire, ovate or elliptical, 

 soft-fleshy, clustered at the root. Upper lip of the calyx *> '!< !(, 

 the lower 2-cleft. Corolla violet, the lips very unequal, the 

 palate open, and hairy or spotted. Shore of Lake Huron. 



ORDER LVII. OROBANCHA'CEJE. (BKOO.MKAI-K K) 



Parasitic herbs, destitute of green foliage. Corolla more or 

 less 2-lipped. Stamens didynamous. Ovary 1-eelled witli '2 or 1 

 parietal placentas, many-seeded. 



1. EPIPHE'GUS, Nutt. BKECH-miors. 



E. Virginia'na, Bart. A yellowish-brown brandling plant, 

 parasitic on the roots of beech-trees. Flowers racemose or spi !< 1 ; 

 the upper sterile, with long corolla ; the lower fertile, with short 

 corolla. 



3. CONOPH'OMS, Wallroth. SQUAW-BOOT. 



C. America'lia, Wallroth. A chestnut-coloured or yellow 

 plant found in clusters in oak woods in early summer, 3-6 inches 

 high and rather less than an inch in thickness. The stem covered 

 with fleshy scales so as to resemble a cone. Flowers under the 

 upper scales ; stamens projecting. 



3. APHYL,'L01V, Mitchell. NAKED BBOOM-BAPI:. 



A. uniflo'rum, Torr. and Gr. Plant yellowish-brown. Flower 

 solitary at the top of a naked scape. Stem subterranean or nearly 

 so, short and scaly. Scapes 3-5 inches high. Calyx 5-cleft, the 

 divisions lance-awl-shaped. Corolla with a long curved tube and 

 5-lobed border, and 2 yellow-bearded folds in. the throat. Stigma 

 2-lipped. Woods, in early summer. 



ORDER LVIII. SCROPHULARIA'CEJE. (Fiowoni F.) 



Herbs, distinguished by a 2-lipped or more or less irregular 

 corolla, stamens usually 4 and didynamous, or only 2, (or in \Yr- 

 bascurn 5) and a 2-celled and usually many-seeded ovary. Style 

 1 ; stigma entire or 2-lobed. 



