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usually dying or withering by the time the flowers open. Flowers yellow 

 or white, two-thirds to i inch broad, in a loose, terminal raceme, which is 

 i to 2 feet long ; corolla usually marked with brown on the back ; filaments 

 of the stamens pilose with violet-colored hairs. 



In fields and waste places. Common. Naturalized from Europe, as 

 is the Common or Velvet Mullen (Verbascum thapsus Linnaeus) 

 which has yellow flowers in very dense terminal spikes and is densely woolly 

 or velvety all over. 



Butter and Eggs; Ramstead 



Linaria linaria (Linnaeus) Karsten 



Plate 196 



A slender-stemmed, herbaceous plant, i to 3 feet high from a deep, 

 perennial root, stems erect, with sessile, narrowly linear leaves which are 

 pale green or glaucous, one-half to if inches long, or the lower leaves longer. 

 The stems often several or many together and simple or with a few branches. 

 Flowers in erect, dense, terminal spikes or racemes. Calyx five-parted, the 

 segments overlapping. Corolla about an inch long, spurred at the base, 

 the spur nearly as long as the body of the corolla, the apex of the corolla 

 two-lipped, the upper lip two-lobed and erect, light yellow, lower lip three- 

 lobed and spreading, light yellow with a rounded projection or fold (palate), 

 deep orange in color, which nearly closes the throat of the flower. Stamens 

 four, in pairs and not projecting out of the flower. 



In fields and waste places, everywhere common, often a troublesome 

 weed. Naturalized from Europe. Flowering from June to October. 



Turtlehead; Snakehead; Balmony 



, Chelone glabra Linnaeus 



Plate 197 



Stems slender, smooth, erect and stiff, i to 3 feet high from a perennial 

 root, simple or with erect or ascending branches. Leaves opposite, short 

 petioled, linear-lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, with sharply toothed margins, 

 the principal veins rather prominent. Flowers i to if inches long, white or 



