SCROPHULARIA.] SCROPHULARINE^. 265 



Shaded places, Cornwall, Devon, Jersey, Guernsey ; fl. July-Aug. Rootstock 

 creeping. Stem 2-4 ft., simple. Leaves 1^-4 in., coarsely crenate-serrate, 

 usually deeply cordate, much wrinkled. Cymes corymbose, in long lax 

 panicles; bracts leafy ; pedicels slender. Corolla \ in., dull purple ; upper lip 

 2-partite ; scale broad, entire or notched. Capsule subglobose or ovoid, 

 acuminate. DISTRIB. Belgium, W. France, S. Europe, N. Africa. 

 SECTION 2. Ceraman'the, Reich. Sepals linear-oblong, subacute. 



Corolla yellow, throat contracted ; lobes nearly equal. Stamens 4, ex- 



serted, 5th absent. 



S. VERNA'LIS, L. ; glandular-hairy, stem obscurely 4-angled, leaves 



broadly ovate or deltoid, petioles not winged, sepals not bordered. 



Waste places, very local ; absent from Ireland ; a denizen, Watson ; fl. April- 

 June. Pale green, flaccid. Rootstock creeping. Stems 1^-4 ft. Leaves 

 2-3 in., deeply doubly-crenate or lobulate. Cymes subumbellate, on axillary 

 peduncles arranged in a terminal leafy panicle ; pedicels short or slender ; 

 bracts and bracteoles leafy. Corolla urceolate. Capsule broadly ovoid, 

 acuminate. DISTHIB. Europe, excl. Spain Greece and Turkey. 



4*. MIM'ULUS, L. 



Erect or decumbent herbs. Leaves opposite. Flowers solitary, axillary. 

 Calyx tubular, 5-angled, 5 -toothed. Corolla 2-lipped ; upper lip erect or 

 reflexed, 2-lobed ; lower spreading, 3-lobed ; throat usually with 2 swell- 

 ings ; lobes flat, rounded. Stamens 4 ; anther-cells stibconfluent. Stigma 

 with 2 equal lamellae. Capsule loculicidally 2-valved, valves separating 

 from a seed-bearing column, many-seeded. Seeds minute, oblong. Dis- 

 TiitB. American, a few Australian and New Zealand; species 30. ETYM. 

 jutjuaS, an ape, from the form of the corolla. 



M. LIT'TEUS, L. ; suberect, leaves ovate-oblong coarsely toothed. 

 River-sides, &c., ascending to 1,000 ft., from Skye southwards, and in Ireland ; 

 naturalized from N. America ; fl. July-Sept. Glabrous or glandular-pubes- 

 cent. Stems -3 ft., with many prostrate barren shoots, stout, hollow, 

 terete. Leaves -3^ in., 6^-9-nerved ; lower petioled with often a few lobes 

 on the petiole; upper sessile. Flotcers 1-2 in., yellow ; peduncles slender, 

 exceeding the leaves. Calyx-teeth short, upper longest. Capsule enclosed 

 in the inflated calyx, ovoid, compressed. DISTRIB. N. America. 



5. LIMOSEL'LA, L. MUDWORT. 



Very small, tufted, creeping, glabrous, annual, aquatic herbs. Leaves 

 narrow, fascicled at the nodes, rarely alternate, petiole dilated at the base. 

 Flowers minute, ebracteate, axillary, solitary. Calyx canipanulate, 

 5-toothed. Corolla subcampauulate, tube short, limb 5-fid. Stamens 4 ; 

 author-cells confluent. Style short, stigma clavate. Capsule septicidally 

 2-valved, valves entire, septum incomplete. Seeds grooved and transversely 

 rugose. DISTRIB. All temp, and cold latitudes. ETYM. limns, mud. 

 1. L. aquat'ica, L. ; leaves narrow-oblong-lanceolate or spathulate. 

 Edges of ponds from Kincardine southwards, but very rare in Scotland ; un- 

 known in Ireland ; fl. July-Sept. Rootstock filiform. Leaves 1-2 in., tufted. 

 Petiole long. Peduncles shorter than the leaves, recurved in fruit. Corolla 

 in in., pink or white. Capsule globose. 



