PLANTAGINACEAE (PLANTAIN FAMILY) 743 



the setaceous calyx-lobes; the throat short. Dry ground, N. J. to Fla., w. to 

 Mich., Neb., and Tex. June-Sept. Var. PARVIFL6RA (Nees) Britton. Spar- 

 ingly hirsute-pubescent or glabrate ; leaves ovate-oblong, usually short-petioled, 

 larger ; tube of corolla little exceeding the hardly hirsute calyx. (Var. am- 

 bigua Gray.) Va. and Ky. to Ala. Appearing as if a hybrid with the next. 



2. R. strpens L. Glabrous or sparingly pubescent, 3-10 dm. high ; leaves 

 narrowed at base into a petiole, ovate, obovate, or mostly oblong, 0.7-1.5 dm. 

 long ; tube of the corolla (3-5 cm. long) little longer than the dilated portion, 

 slightly exceeding the lanceolate or linear calyx-lobes. Rich soil, Pa. to Wise., 

 s. to Fla. and Tex. July-Sept. Var. CLEISTANTHA Gray. Leaves commonly 

 narrower and oblong; flowers for most of the season cleistogamous. (Var. 

 micrantha Britton.) Common with the ordinary form. 



3. R. pedunculata Torr. Puberulent, slender, 3-8 dm. high, the branches 

 spreading; leaves ovate-oblong, 4-7 dm. long, short-petioled; flowers solitary 

 or 3, on slender peduncles (1.5-5 cm. long) with 2 leaf -like bracts at the tip ; 

 corolla 3-5 cm. long, the tube slightly exceeding the subulate-filiform calyx- 

 lobes. Dry woods, Mo. , and south w. 



3. DYSCHORISTE Nees. 



Calyx deeply 5-cleft or -parted. Corolla funnel-form, with ample limb, con- 

 volute in bud. Anthers mucronate or sometimes aristate at base. Ovules a 

 single pair in each cell. Capsule oblong-linear. Low branching perennials, 

 pubescent or hirsute, with few proportionally large axillary nearly sessile flowers 

 and blue corolla. (Name from 5vs%c6/H(TTos, hard to separate, referring to the 

 firmly coherent valves of the capsule.) CALOPHANES Don. 



1. D. oblongifblia (Michx.) Ktze. Stems usually erect and simple, 1.5-4 

 dm. high ; leaves from narrowly oblong to oval, very obtuse, sessile, 1.5-3 cm. 

 long ; corolla blue, sometimes purple-dotted or mottled, seldom 2.5 cm. long ; 

 calyx-lobes nearly distinct, filiform-setaceous, hirsute. (Calophanes Don.) 

 Pine barrens, s. Va. to Fla. 



PHRYMACEAE (LOPSEED FAMILY) 



A perennial herb, with slender branching stems, and coarsely toothed ovate 

 leaves, the lower long-petioled ; the small opposite flowers in elongated and 

 slender terminal spikes, strictly reflexed in fruit. Corolla purplish or rose-color. 

 Calyx cylindrical, 2-lipped ; the upper lip of 3 bristle-awl-shaped teeth ; the 

 lower shorter, 2-toothed. Corolla 2-lipped ; upper lip notched ; the lower much 

 larger, 3-lobed. Stamens included. Style slender ; stigma 2-lobed. Fruit dry, 

 in the bottom of the calyx, oblong, 1-celled and 1-seeded. Seed orthotropous. 

 Cotyledons convolute round their axis. 



1. PHRYMA L. LOPSEED 



A single species, with characters of the family. (Derivation of the name 

 unknown.) 



1. P. Leptostachya L. Plant 3-9 dm. high ; leaves 0.5-1.5 dm. long, thin ; 

 calyx strongly ribbed and closed in fruit, the long slender teeth hooked at the 

 tip. Moist and open woods, N. B. and Que. to Man., and southw. July, Aug. 

 (E. Asia.) 



PLANTAGINACEAE (PLANTAIN FAMILY) 



Chiefly stemless herbs, with regular ^-merous spiked flowers, the stamens 

 inserted on the tube of the dry and membranaceous veinless gamopetalous corolla, 

 alternate with its lobes. Chiefly represented by the two following genera. 



