238 FIGWORT FAMILY. 



G. sphaerocarpa. Chiefly S. : smooth and stouter, with lance-ovate 

 leaves, peduncles scarcely longer than the calyx, and larger spherical pod. 



* * Sterile filaments obvious, usually tipped with a little glandular head in place of 



the nnt Iter : leaves short. 



G. viscbsa. Chiefly S. W. : clammy, with lance-ohlong toothed leaves 

 shorter than the peduncles, and whitish flowers. ,. 



G. aiirea. Sandy wet soi^E. & S. : nearly smooth, with rather narrow 

 cn tire leaves as^long asj-he peduncles, and golden yeilo.v flowers. 



G. pi!6sa. From NTjersey lK. : very different from any of the foregoing, H 

 having rigid nnd simple erect stems and ovate or oblong sessile leaves, both 

 hairy, the flowers sessile, the white corolla hardly longer than the calyx. 



23. SCROPHULARIA, FIGWORT. (Plants a supposed remedy for 

 scrofula.) These homely and insignificant plants hardly ought to have given 

 the name to this large and important family. 



S. nodbsa. Damp shady ground : smooth, with 4-sided stem 3 - 4 high, 

 ovate or oblong coarsely toothed leaves, and small lurid flowers in loose cymes, 

 all summer, j/ 



24. CHELONE, TURTLE-HEAD (to which the name, from the Greek, 

 refers), SNAKE-HEAD, BALMONY. 



C. glabra, the common species, of wet places; l-2 high, with lanceolate 



- or lance-oblong leaves on very short petioles, and white or pale purple corolla 

 I' or more long, all summer. }/ 



25. PENTSTEMON. (Name, from the Greek, meaning 5 stamens, 

 refers to the presence of the 5th stamen, which, however, has no anther.) 

 Showy North American and a few Mexican plants, chiefly Western ; two or 

 three are wild E. ; several are in choice cultivation, but few are yet common 

 here. Fl. late spring and summer. Jl 



* Wild K. of the Mississippi, and sometimes cult. : floirers white, commonly tinged 



with some purplish or violet: leaves partly clasping, often serrate: panicle 

 clammy, the corolla slightly so. 



P. pub6scens. Somewhat clammy-pubescent, or smoothish except the 

 panicle, l-3 high, variable; stem-leaves lanceolate; flowers nodding; the 

 plainly 2-lipped corolla (!' long) with gradually enlarging tube concave on tho 

 lower, convex on the upper side, a sort of palate almost closing the mouth ; 

 sterile filament yellow-bearded down one side. 



P. Digitalis. N. Virginia to 111. & S. : taller (2 -4), smooth up to the 

 naked panicle, with wider more entire leaves ; corolla but slightly 2-lipped, 

 open, abruptly inflated bell-shaped above from a narrow tube ; sterile filament 

 sparingly bearded on one side. 



# Wild beyond but near the Miuutippi, shoiry and cultivated for ornament. 



P. grandiflbrus. Plains from Falls of St. Anthony W. & S. W. : very 



smooth, pale and glaucous, l-3 high, with thick ovate" leaves (t'-2' long") 

 closely sessile and entire', the upper ones rounded, short-pedicelled flowers 

 racemed, lilac-purple oblong-bell-sn&ped corolla U'-2' long and almost equally 

 5-lobod, the sterile filament nearly smooth. 



P. Cobsea. Plains from Nebraska S. : l-2 high, stout, with ovate often 

 denticulate thick leaves, a slightly clammy few-flowered panicle or raceme, 

 pale purplish or whitish corolla about 2' long and abruptly much inflated above 

 the narrow base, the border 2-lipped, but the oblong lobes similar ; the sterile 

 filament bean! 



P. glaber. Plains from Nebraska nnd Missouri W. : very smooth, com- 

 monly pale or glaucous, with ascending stems l-2 long, lanceolate or lance- 

 ovate entire leaves, and a narrow panicle of very handsome flowers ; the tubular- 

 inflated corolla about 1 .V long, bright purple blue, with the spreading lobes 

 of the 2 short lips similar ; sterile filaments and also the anthers slightly hairy 

 or else naked. 



