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‘VERBASOUM SCROPHULARIACEZ 503 
24 Melampyrum Annual branching herbs with opposite leaves. 
SERIES t PsEUDOSOLANEZ B. & H. Gen. ii, 915. Leaves all 
alternate. Inflorescence centripetal. Corolla hardly if at all bi- 
labiate; the two posterior lobes external in the bud. All five 
stamens sometimes present and perfect, 
Tribe 1 Verbascex Benth. in DC. Prodr. x, 188. Corolla rotate 
with hardly any tube. Anthers by confluence one-celled. 
1 VERBASCUM UL. Sp. 177. 1753. 
Biennial, or rarely perennial, mostly tall and erect herbs with 
alternate leaves and rather large flowers in terminal spikes, ra- 
cemes or panicles. Calyx deeply 5-cleft or 5-parted. Corolla ro- 
tate, 5-lobed, the lobes a little unequal, the upper exterior at least 
in the bud. Stamens 5, inserted on the base of the corolla, une- 
qual, all antheriferous: cells of the anthers confluent into one. 
Ovules numerous. Style dilated and flattened at the summit. 
Capsule globose to oblong, septicidally 2-valved, many-seeded, 
the valves usually 2-cleft at the apex Seeds not winged. 
V. Tuapsus L. Sp. 177. (Great Muuiien). Densely woolly through- 
out with branched hairs: stem stout, erect, simple or with a few erect 
branches, 2-10 feet high: leaves thick, oblong acute, narrowed at the base, 
dentate or denticulate, 4-12 inches long, the radical ones on margined pet- 
ioles, the cauline sessile with decurrent base causing the stem to appear 
wing-angled: flowers yellow, 8-12 lines broad, sessile, very numerous in 
dense terminal spikes: stamens unequal, the 8 upper shorter with white- 
hairy filaments and short anthers, the 2 lower glabrous or nearly so, with 
larger anthers: capsule 3 -4 lines high slightly longer than the calyx, many- 
seeded. Roadsides and waste places, throughout Nortn America. Intro- 
duced from Eurupe. 
V. Buarrarta L. Sp. 178 (Mora Mo.tien). Glabrous or sparingly 
glandular-pubescent: stem strictly erect, simple, slender, terete, 2-6 feet 
high: leaves oblong or ovate to lanceolate, dentate, laciniate or pinnatifid, 
acute or acuminate, the lower and radical ones sessile or somewhat petiol- 
ed 4-12 inches long, seldom present at flowering time, the upper ones 14-2 
inches long sessile by a truncate or cordate-clasping base: flowers in long 
loose racemes : pedicels spreading 8-12 lines long, bracted at the base: corol- 
la yellow or white with brownish marks on the back, 10-12 lines broad: 
filaments all pilose with violet hairs: capsule depressed globose 3 lines in 
diameter, longer than the calyx. tn fields and waste places throughout 
the United States and Canada. Naturalized from Eurupe. 
II ANTIRRHINIDEZ Benth, in DC. Prodr. x, 188. Leaves - 
mostly opposite, at least the lower ones. Inflorescence when sim- 
ple centripetal, when compounnd the peduncle cymosely few to 
several-flowered. Upper lip or lobes of the corolla external in the 
bud, with a few and irregular'exceptions. Fertile stamens very 
seldom more than four. 
Tribe 2 Antirrhinee Bhav. Monog. Antirrh. 1833. Inflores- 
cence simple and racemous, or the flowers solitary and axillary. Co- 
rolla bulabiate and more or less tubular: the base af the tube gibbous 
or saccate or spurred on the lower side, and the lower lip often with 
