' length o 
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CHELONE 
lobes longer than the tube, acute, minutely serrulate: corolla rotate, 3-4 
lines broad, much exceeding the calyx, blue and white, the three lobes of 
the lower lip obovate and nearly alike, smaller than those of the 2-cleft 
upper lip: ovules and seeds 3 or 4in each cell. In copses, eastern Wash- 
ington to Idaho and Oregon. 
6 SCROPHULARIA Tourn. L. Sp. 619. 
Coarse perennial herbs, some exotic species shrubby, with most- 
ly opposite leaves and small purple, greenish or yellow flowers in 
terminal panicled cymes, Calyx 5-parted or 5-cleft, the lobes 
mostly obtuse, imbricated in the bud. Corolla irregular, the 
tube globose to oblong, not gibbous nor spurred at the base ; the 
limb 5-lobed, four of them erect, the fifth or anterior one shortest 
and reflexed or spreading: the upper pair largest and external in 
the bud. Anthers 5, four of them antheriferous and declined, 
mostly included: cells of the anthers confluent at the apex into 
one :, the fifth stamen reduced to a scale on the upper. side of the 
corolla-tube. Style filiform, with capitate or truncate stigma. 
Capsule ovoid septicidally dehiscent. Seeds numerous, rugose, 
not winged. 
S. Californica Cham. Linn, ii, 585. Minutely puberulent and the 
inflorescence glandular: stems stout, 2-4 feet high simple: leaves oblong- 
ovate with truncate or cordate base and acute or acuminate apex, or the 
upper narrowly deltoid, coarsely doubly serrate, or sometimes laciniate- 
incised, 2-4 inches long, the lower ones smaller and sometimes with a pair 
of detached lobelets near the summit of the petiole: thyrsus very loose and 
often few-flowered, mainly naked: pedicels slender, 8-20 lines long: calyx 
cleft nearly to the base, the ovate lobes 1-2 lines long, corolla greenish- 
purple, its ovoid tube 3-4 lines long, the limb short: rudiment of the fifth 
stamen spatulate or cuneiform either roundish or acutish at base: capsule 
ovoid 3-4 lines in diameter. Moist grounds. Siskiyou Mountains of Oregon 
to California and Nevada ; 
hs cidentalls Bicknell Bull. Torr, Bot Club xxiii, 315. S. nodosa 
carr entalis Rydb. More or less soft-pubescent and glandular: stems 
stout, 3-5 feet high: leaves ovate or slightly cordate at base, acute or acu- 
minate, 2-8 inches long, doubly and sharply serrate or incised, often with 
fascicles of smaller leaves in their axils: thyrsus with short branches: 
flowers numerous: calyx-segments rounded-elliptical, obtuse, slightly mar- 
gined: sterile filament very broad, reniform, stipitate. In alluvial soil, 
Oregon and Washington to Dakota. 
S. Marylandica L. Sp. 619 ?. Glabrous below, somewhat glandular- 
puberulent above: stems slender, erect, 3-10 feet high, papal, with widely 
spreading branches: leaves membranaceous, slender-petioled, ovate or 
ovate-lanceolate, acuminate at the apex, sharply serrate, narrowed trun- 
cate or subcordate at base, 3-12 inches long: flowers greenish-purple, 3-4 
lines long, very numerous in the nearly leafless thyrsus: poner s slender, 
aeenndings 4-12 lines long: calyx-lobes broadly ovate, obtuse, about the 
the tube: corolla green and dull outside, brownish-purple and 
shining within, little contracted at the throat, the 2 lateral lobes slightly 
spreading; the upper lip erect, its lobes short and rounded: sterile filament 
dull purple: capsule subglobose with a slender tip. In woods and thickets, 
Oregon and Washington to the Eastern States. 
7 CHELONE L. Sp. 611. (1753.) 
Perennial herbs with opposite leaves: and large white red or 
