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SCROPHULARIACEAE. 



3. Veronica peregrina L. Purs- 

 lane iSPEEDWELL. Neck WEED. (Fig. 

 383.) Annual, glabrous, or glandular- 

 puberulent; stem 3-12' high. Leaves 

 oblong, oval, linear or slightly spatu- 

 late, 3"-10" long, the lowest opposite, 

 short-petioled, or sessile, broader than 

 the upper and usually denticulate, the 

 upper alternate, sessile, mostly entire, 

 each with a short-peduncled flower in 

 its axil ; flowers nearly white, about 1" 

 broad; peduncles much shorter than the 

 calyx; capsule nearly orbicular, ob- 

 cordate, usually a little shorter than 

 the calyx, 1"-1^" high, the seeds flat. 



Occasional in cultivated grounds. 

 Naturalized. Native of North America 

 where it is widely distributed. Nat- 

 uralized in .Jamaica. Flowers from 

 spring to autumn. 



Veronica salicifolia Forst., Wil- 

 low-leaved Veronica, of New Zea- 

 land, recorded by Jones as grown in 

 Bermuda in 1873, is a glabrous shrub, 

 6° high or more, with lanceolate entire leaves about 3' long and numerous, white 

 or blue flowers in axillary racemes. 



Linaria Linaria (L.) Karst., Yellow Snapdragon, Toadflax, European, 

 is sometimes grown in flower-gardens. It is an herbaceous perennial, l°-3° 

 high, with linear entire leaves and terminal racemes of bright yellow flowers 

 about 1' long, the irregular spurred corolla with a palate nearly closing the 

 throat; the capsule opens by pores. From Jones list of 1873, Reade 's record 

 of 1883, and that of H. B. Small, it vvould appear that they had observed this 

 plant on roadsides and in waste places, but Ave have not seen it outside of 

 cultivation in Bermuda. [Antirrhi7mm Linaria L. ; Linaria vulgaris Mill.] 



Pentstemon hirsutus (L.) Willd., Hairy Beard-tongue, North Ameri- 

 can, collected in Bermuda by Eein about 1853, as would appear from a 

 specimen preserved in the herbarium of the Berlin Botanical Garden, recorded 

 in Rein's list as Pentstemon piihescens Soland., and admitted by Hemsley, 

 has not been found by subsequent collectors. It may have been in cultivation, 

 as its existence as a wild plant in Bermuda is doubtful. It is an herbaceous 

 perennial, 3° high or less, nearly glabrous, with oblong to lanceolate, finely 

 toothed leaves, and long clusters of rather showy purple flowers, the corolla 

 about f ' long, the sterile stamen about as long as the four fertile ones. 



A pubescent Pentstemon with lanceolate, entire leaves and large purplish 

 flowers was seen in cultivation at Rose Cottage in 1914. 



Antirrhinum majus L., Snapdragon, European, an herbaceous perennial 

 with narrow leaves and terminal racemes of irregular flowers an inch or more 

 long, the corolla of various colors from white to purple, saccate at the base, 

 is common in flower gardens, blooming profusely in spring. 



Mimulus luteus L., Yellow Monkey-flower, North American, recorded 

 by Reade as a garden flower, is an herbaceous perennial, with broad toothed 

 leaves and showy yellow axillary flowers over 1' long, the corolla with a 

 eylindric tube and a spreading 2-lipped limb, the four stamens all perfect. 



Paulownia tomentosa (Thunb.) Baill., Paulo wnia, Japanese, grown at 

 Norwood, is a tree, becoming 50° high or more, with broadly ovate petioled 

 cordate leaves 5'-16' broad, canescent on both sides when young, those of 



