96 COMMON CANADIAN WILD PLANTS. 







12. Euphra'sia. Calyx Deleft. Upper lip of the corolla erect, the lower 



spreading. Stamens 4, under the upper lip. Very small herbs, with 

 whitish or bluish spiked flowers. (Chiefly on the sea-coast, and north of 

 Lake Superior.) 



13. Khiiian'tluiK. Calyx flat, greatly inflated in fruit, 4-toothed. Upper 



lip of the corolla arched, flat, with A minute tooth on each side below 

 the apex. Stamens 4. Flowers yellow, solitary in the axils, nearly 

 sessile, the whole forming a crowded 1-sided spike. (Chiefly on the sea- 

 coast, and north of Lake Superior.) 



14. Pedicula'ris. Calyx split in front, not inflated in fruit. Corolla 2-lipped, 



the upper lip arched or hooded, incurved, flat, 2-toothed under the apex. 

 Stamens 4. Pod flat, somewhat sword-shaped. 



15. Melampy'rum. Calyx /Deleft, the lobes sharp-pointed. Corolla green- 



ish-yellow ; upper lip arched, compressed, the lower 3-lobed at the apex. 

 Stamens 4 ; anthers hairy. Pod 1-4-seeded, flat, oblique. Upper leaves 

 larger than the lower ones and fringed with bristly teeth at the base. 



1. VERBAS'CUM, L. MULLEIN. 



1. V. Thap'sus, L. (COMMON MULLEIN.) A tall and very 

 woolly herb, with the simple stem winged by the decurrent bases 

 of the leaves. Flowers yellow, forming a dense spike. Fields 

 and roadsides everywhere. 



2. V. Blatta'ria, L. (MoTH M.) Stem slender, nearly smooth. 

 Lower leaves petioled, doubly serrate ; the upper partly clasping. 

 Flowers whitish with a purple tinge, in a hose raceme. Filament* 

 all violet-bearded. Roadsides ; not common northward. 



3. VEROIV'ICA, L. SPEEDWELL. 



1. V. America'na, Schweinitz. (AMERICAN BROOKLIME.) 



Flowers palo blur-, in ojij>osite axillary racemes. Leaves mostly 

 peiioled, thickish, serrate. Pod swollen. A common plant in 

 brooks and ditches. 



2. V. AnagalHs, L., (WATER SPEEDWELL) is much lilce No. 

 1, but the leaves are sessile, with a heart-shaped base. 



3. V. SCUtella'ta, L. (MARSH S.) Flowers pale blue, in 

 racemes chiefly from alternate axils. Leaves sessile, linear, oppo- 

 site, hardly toothed. Racemes 1 or 2, slcn<1<-r <tn<l ::/'/:<//. Fl<r< rx 

 few. Pods very flat, notched at both ends. Bogs. 



4. V. Officinalis, L. (COMMONS.) Flowers light him-. Stem 

 prostrate, rooting at the base, pubescent. Leaves short-petiolrd, 



