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high. Calyx 5-cleft, the divisions lance-awl-shaped. Corolla 

 with a long curved tube and 5-loV,ed border, and 2 yellow- 

 bearded folds in the throat. Stigma 2-lipped. Woods, in 

 early summer. 



2. A. faSCiCUla'tum, Gray. Scaly stem erect, and rising 

 8 or 4 inches above the ground, mostly longer than the 

 crowded peduncles. N.W.; parasitic on Artemisia, etc. 



ORDER LX. SCROPHULARIA'CE^E. (FIGWORT F.) 



Herbs distinguished by a 2-lipped or more or less irregular 

 corolla, stamens usually 4 and didynamous, or only 2, (or 

 in Verbascum 5) and a 2-celled and usually many-seeded 

 ovary. Style 1 ; stigma entire or 2-lobed. 



Synopsis of the Genera. 



* Corolla wheel-shaped, and only slightly irregular. 



1. Yerfoas'cum. Stamens (with anthers ) 5. Flowers in a long ter- 



minal spike. Corolla 5-parted, nearly regular. Filaments (or 

 some of them) woolly. 



2. Veroit'ica. Stamens only 2 ; filaments long and slender. Corolla 



mostly 4-parted, nearly or quite regular. Pod flattish. Flowers 

 solitary in the axils, or forming a terminal raceme or spike. 



* * Corolla 2-lipped, or tubular and irregular. 



-- Upper lip of the corolla embracing the lotoer in the bud, except occa- 

 sionally in H i MI ii 1 ii s. 



3. Liua'ria. Corolla personate (Fig. 181, Parti.), with a longer spur 



beneath. Stamens 4. Flowers yellow, in a crowded raceme. 



4. Scroplmla'ria. Corolla tubular, somewhat inflated, 5-lobed ; the 4 



upper lobes erect, the lower one spreading. Stamens with anthers 

 4, the rudiment of a fifth in the form of a scale on the upper lip 

 of the corolla. Flowers small and dingy, forming a narrow ter- 

 minal panicle. Stem 4-sided. 



5. < 1 ol I i ns'in. Corolla 2-cleft, the short tube saccate on the upper side ', 



the middle lobe of the lower lip sac-like and enclosing the 4 

 declined stamens ; the upper lip 2-cleft, the lobes partly turned 

 backward. Fifth stamen rudimentary. Leaves opposite. Flow- 

 ers blue and white, in umbel-like clusters. 



6. Cbelo'iie. Corolla inflated-tubular (Fig. 180, Part I.). Stamens 4, 



with woolly filaments and anthers, and a fifth filament without 

 an anther. Flowers white, in a close terminal spike. 



