DIV. II 



AXGIOSPERMAE 



703 



OFFICIAL. Capsicum 

 minimum yields CAPSICI 

 FRUCTUS. Atropa bella- 

 donna yields BELLA- 



DONXAE FOLIA, BELLA- 

 DONNAS KADIX, and 



ATROPINA. Datura Stra- 

 monium, STRAMONII 

 SEMINA and STRAMONII 



FOLIA. D. fastuosa, D. 

 metel. Hyoscyamus niger, 



HYOSCYAMI FOLIA. 



Family 2. Serophu- 

 lariaeeae. Flowers 

 zygomorphic. "Corolla 

 not plaited in the bud. 

 Number of stamens 

 nearly always incom- 

 plete. Carpels median. 

 Fruit, a bilocular cap- 

 sule. 



Verbascum (Fig. 761), 

 the Mullein ; biennial 

 herbs, which in the first 

 season form a large rosette 

 of woolly leaves from 

 which the erect inflores- 

 cence arises in the second 

 year. The single flowers 

 have five stamens, and 

 are only slightly zygo- 

 morphic ; the three pos- 

 terior stamens have hairy 

 filaments, and are further 

 distinguished from the 

 two anterior stamens by 

 the transverse position of 

 their anthers. Linaria 

 and Antirrhinum have a 

 two -lipped corolla with 

 four stamens. Digitalis, 

 Foxglove (Fig. 763), has 

 an obliquely campanulate 

 corolla and four stamens. 

 The flowers hang from 

 one side of the ascending 

 raceme, which is produced 

 in the second year. Grati- 

 ola and Veronica with 

 onlv two fertile stamens. 



FIG. 7G4. Orobnnche minor, parasitic on Trifolium repens 

 (i nat. size). Single flower (enlarged). 



