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GARDEN BOTANY 



ORDER SCROPHULARIACE^. FIGWORT FAMILY. 

 Manual, p. 281. The following represent this order in the gardens. 



3tamens 5, rather unlike : corolla nearly wheel-shaped. Man. p. 283. VERBASCUM. 



Stamens 4 with anthers, and sometimes a fifth sterile filament. 

 Corolla with a very short tube and a large deeply 2-lippcd and 



6-cleft spreading limb : leaves all opposite or whorled. 1. COLLINSIA. 



Corolla with a more or less elongated tube or cup. 

 Personate, i. e. 2-lipped and the throat closed with a palate. 



Spurred at the base on the lower side 2. LTNARIA. 



Sacvate at the base on the lower side 3. ANTIRRHINUM. 



Scarcely gibbous at the base : palate small 4. MAURANDIA 



Open at the throat. 

 Herbs (climbing by the petioles and peduncles). 



Seeds wingless 4. MAURANDIA. 



Seeds winged 5. LOPHOSPERMIISL 



Not climbing : a tree with opposite and cordate leaves. . 6. PAULO WNIA. 



Not climbing, herbs or somewhat shrubby plants. 

 Leaves hardly any or minute : branches slender and rush- 

 like, drooping : corolla slender, tubular. . . 7. RUSSELLIA. 

 Leaves opposite. 



Calyx 5-parted : a sterile filament conspicuous. . . 8. PENTSTEMON. 



Calyx 5-toothed, 5-angled : sterile filament none. . . 9. MIMULUS. 

 Leaves alternate. 



Calyx 5-parted : flowers nodding : sterile filament none. 10. DIGITALIS. 

 Calyx 5-toothed : sterile filament present. . . 11. SALPIGLOSSIS 



Stanums only 2 with anthers. 

 Calyx 5-parted : corolla rotate, very irregular, its divisions once 



or twice cleft or cut-lobed 12. SCHIZANTHUS 



Calyx 4-parted : corolla 2-lobed, the larger or lower lobe inflated 



into a sort of bag or slipper 13. CALCEOLARIA. 



Calyx 4-parted, rarely 5-parted : corolla rotate or salver-shaped : 

 the limb mostly 4-parted, one or two of the lobes smaller 

 tlian the others 14. VERONICA. 



1. Collinsia bicolor. A showy Californian annual, with many more 

 flowers than in C. verna (Man. p. 284) ; pedicels shorter than the calyx; 

 upper lip of corolla white, lower purple. 



2. Linaria triornithophora. Perennial, tall, glaucous ; leaves 3 or 4 in 

 a whorl, ovate-lanceolate ; flowers 1^' long, on Blender peduncles, pale violet 

 with purple stripes, and a long spur. For other species see Man. p. 284. 



3. Antirrhinum majus, GREAT SNAPDRAGON. Perennial, erect; leaves 

 linear-oblong ; raceme many-flowered ; corolla l' to 2' long. 



4. Maurandia. Perennials, cult, as annuals ; the leaves mostly alternate, 

 with long petioles and long 1 -flowered peduncles in their axils; by means of 

 both the plant climbs. 



M. antirrhiniflora. Leaves hastate ; corolla 1' long, violet or white, 



witli a hairy palate nearly closing the throat. 



M. semperflorens. Corolla without a palate ; otherwise like tho last. 

 M. Bardayana. Like the last, but handsomer ; leaves broadly trian- 

 gular cordate. 



