GROUP V. ANGIOSPERJLE ; D1COTYLEDONES. 56fr 



the Foxglove, has an obliquely campanulate (digitaliform) corolla ; sta- 

 mens 4- D, purpurea is common in woods; the yellow D. grandiflora is- 

 cultivated. Scrophularia has a globose corolla; S. nodosa (Figwort) and 

 S. aquatica are common. Veronica, the Speedwell, has only the 2 postero- 

 lateral stamens, and the two lobes of the upper lip of the rotate corolla 

 are united ; the posterior lobe of the calyx is suppressed (Figs. 377 J?, 378 C) : 

 V. Anagallin and V. Beccabunga are common in ditches ; V. arvensis, agrestis, 

 serpyllifolia, Chanuedrys. and others in pastures and fields. Sibthorpia has 

 a sub-rotate 5-8-fid corolla, and four stamens ; S. europcea is the Cornish 

 Moneywort. 



Pedicularis, the Lousewort, has a 5-toothed calyx, and the upper lip of 

 the corolla is galeate : Euphrasia, the Eyebright, has a 4-toothed calyx, 

 the upper lip of the corolla has two spreading or reflexed lobes : Bartsia 

 has a 4-toothed calyx, upper lip of the ringent corolla entire or only 



PIG. 378. Flowers of Scrophulariaceas. A Antirrhinum : k calyx ; r tube of the personate 

 corolla, gibbous at the base (h) : o upper, u under lip of the corolla ; g prominence (palate) 

 of the under lip. B Upper lip of the Bame, seen from within: the two longer anterior 

 stamens ; s' the short lateral ones ; *t rudimentary posterior one. C Flower of Veronica ; 

 k calyx ; u u u the three lobes of the lower lip of the rotate corolla : o the upper lip ; c the 

 two stamens ; n stigma. 



notched : Rhinanthus, the Battle, has a four-toothed inflated calyx : 

 Melampyrum, the Cow-wheat, has a 4-toothed tubular calyx, and the cap- 

 sule is few-seeded : all these plants possess chlorophyll, but they are more 

 or less parasitic upon the roots of other plants. 



Order 2. PLANTAGIXACE.E. Flowers regular, isobilateral, and 

 apparently tetramerous, but the true interpretation of them is de- 

 duced from those of Veronica (Figs. 377 B and 379) : the posterior 

 sepal is suppressed, as also the posterior stamen ; the two posterior 

 petals cohere to form an upper lip which is quite similar to one of 

 the lobes of the three-lobed lower lip (Fig. 379) : stamens four, the 

 two anterior not being suppressed: ovary dimerous, bilocular, or 

 sometimes unilocular or spuriously 4-locular : ovules solitary and 



