236 FIGWORT FAMILY. 



M. semperflbrens, has lanceolate smooth calyx-divisions, and smaller 

 rose-purple or violet corolla. 



2. LOPIIOSPERMUM. Corolla very obscurely 2-l'pped, and with 2 bearded lines. 



M. erubescens. Somewhat soft-pubescent, with irregularly toothed leaves, 

 rose-colored flowers 3' long, and ovate-oblong rather leaf-like sepals 



M. seandens, now less common and not so showy, is less pubescent, and 

 has smaller less-inflated deeper purple corolla, and lance-oblong sepals. 



16. DIGITALIS, FOXGLOVE. (Latin namo, from shape of the corolla, 

 likened to the finger of a glove, in the common species.) 



D. purpiirea, PURPLE F., of which varieties with corolla white or pale 

 and more or less strongly spotted corolla are common, 2' long, the lobes rather 

 obscure ; leaves rugose, somewhat downy. Cult, from Eu. : fl. summer. 2/ 



17. GERARDIA. (Named for the herbalist, Gerarde.) Handsome, but 

 uncultivable plants : fl. late summer anil autumn. The following are the 

 commonest wild species : mostly of gravelly or sandy soil. 



1. Corolla purple or rose-color, somewhat bell -shaped : calyx-teeth short: anthers 

 a/I alike, nearly pointiest at base : /mms iiarro/r, linear or thread-shaped, 

 entire.: loosely branching, nearly all annuals, except, the font. 



G. linifblia. Pine-barrens S. ; with erect branches, and erect linear leaves 

 about the length of the peduncles, truncate calyx, and corolla 1' long. 2/ 



G. tenuifblia. N. & S. ; with opposite pedicels equalling the linear 

 spreading leaves, broadly awl-shaped calyx-teeth, and corolla ?'-&' long. 



G. fllif61ia. S. ; with alternate pedicels twice the length of the rather 

 fleshy thread-shaped or slightly club-shaped leaves; corolla $' long. 



G. aph.^lla. S. ; with >hort pedicels alternate along one side of the- 

 flowering branches, and minute scale-like or awl-shaped appresscd leaves, 

 minute calyx-teeth, and corolla ^' long. 



G. purpurea. N. & S. in low ground ; with stout pedicels not longer 

 than the conspicuously 5-lobcd calyx, opposite and spreading rather broad 

 linear leaves, and corolla if' - 1' long. 



G. maritima. Salt marshes X. & S., lower than the preceding, and with 

 fleshy blunt leaves, the pedicels as long as the upper ones and as the obtusely 

 5-toothcd calyx, and corolla ' ' -\' long. 



2. Corolla purple (or sometimes white] : calyx deeply and unequally 5-clfft : 



anthers pointlex*, those of the short< r pair muck smaller : leaves rattier broad. 



G. auriculata. Low grounds, from Penn. S. & W. ; rough-hairy, with 

 nearly simple stem, lanceolate or oblong leaves entire, or the lower with a lobe 

 on each side of the base ; flowers sessile in the upper axils ; corolla 1' long. 



3. Corolla yellow and with a longer tube, the inside woolly, as are the filaments 

 and antlurs; t/if latttr almost j>rojtctinn, slender-pointed at base: ca'y.c 

 5-c/eft : taller herbs, with leaves or some of them pinnatifid or toothed. ~jj. 

 * Stems nearly simple : Jlowers in a leafy raceme : corolla more tubular. 



G. flava, DOWXY FALSE FOXGLOVE. Open dry woods: 3 -4 high, 

 minutely soft-downy ; upper leaves lanceolate or oblong and entire, lower sinuate 

 or pinnatifid ; pedicels verv short ; corolla 1 j' long. 



G. quercifolia, SMOOTH F. Rich woods, commoner S. & W. : 3 -6 

 high, smooth and glaucous ; upper leaves often entire, lower once or twice 

 pinnatifid ; pedicels as long as calyx ; corolla 2' long. 



G. integriiOlia. Barrens, from Penn. S. & W. : l-2 high, smooth, 

 not glaucous ; leaves lanceolate, entire ; corolla 1' long. 



* * Stems bushy-branched : calyx-lobes toothed or pinnatijid: leaves mostly cut. 



G. grandiflbra. Oak openings from Wisconsin S. : 3 -4 high, minutely 

 downy; leaves ovate-lanceolate, coarsely cut-toothed, the lower pinnatifid; ped- 

 icels shorter than the barely toothed calyx-lobes ; corolla 2' long. 



