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PLANTS OF BERMUDA. 65 



lobed ; fruit a two-celled, many-seeded capsule ; deeds attached to ^ § \^'^>,^ 

 a central axis. 

 ^ This large order, although well represented in Bermuda, contains 

 no plants of economic value. A few are well-known garden flowers, 

 as the Snap-dragon ('Antirrhinum majusj, and the Monkey -flower 

 (Mimulus luteusj ; an almost leafless shrub, Russelia juncca, with ^ >;" r< 

 rush-like, jointed branches, and long, scarlet, tubular flowers, ^ v ^^ 

 called Heath in Bermuda, is also common. ^.^-J ^J^ *^^ 



A. Flowers nearly regular; corolla rotate or bell-shaped, tube short; 

 damens four or Jive. 



I. VERBASCUM. 



Woolly herbs with alternate leaves ; flowers in a dense, woolly spike ; 

 calyx five-partite ; corolla tvith a short tube and four or five slightly 

 irregular, spreading lobes; sta^nens five, unequal; capsule ovoid, two- 

 celled. 



1. V. thapsus (Mullein or Blanket Leaf), An annual, erect herb ; 

 stem simple or with few branches, stout, two to four feet high ; 

 lower leaves six to twelve inches long, ovate-oblong, nearly entire, 

 densely woolly on both sides, their base continued down the stem 

 in the form of wings ; spike simple, one to two feet long, very dense 

 and woolly ; two stamens longer, smooth, other three shorter and 

 hairy. Distribution, Europe and United States ; habitat, a con- 

 spicuous weed in neglected fields and waste ground. Flowers 

 golden yellow, three-quarters of an inch in diameter ; June to 

 October. 



■f II. BUDDLEJA. 



Shrubs with opposite leaves; calyx and corolla four-loled ; stamens 

 four, included in corolla-tube. 



1. B. Americana (Snuif plant). A shrub six to ten feet high, 

 much branched from the base, Taraiiches woolly Avith white stellate 

 down ; leaves three to four inches long, ovate or oblong, acute, 

 margin with few obscure, wavy teeth, base tapering into petiole, 

 the latter and under surface of leaves white with woolly down, 

 upper surface smooth, dark green ; panicles four to six inches long, %' 

 many-flowered, pyramid- shaped: calyx minute four-toothed; co- ^^ 

 roUa funnel-shaped, lobes ovate-oblong : stamens inserted in throat "^ "-^r: 

 of corolla. Distribution, Jamaica, Texas, kc. ; habitat, hedges and V^ 

 shrubberies occasional. Flowers yellow, one- sixth of an inch;"^ 

 June to August. 



III. CAPRAllIA. 



Erect, shrubby herbs tvith alternate leaves ; calyx and corolla five-clef t ; 

 stamens four or five, included in corolla-tube ; capsule four -valved, many- 



1. G. biflora (Goatweed). A smooth, leafy, perennial underslirub, 

 two to four feet liigh ; branches erect, tough ; leaves sessile, oblong- 

 lanceolate, one and a half inches long, half-inch wide, coarsely 



