GENUS 2. 



FIGWORT FAMILY. 



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2. CYMBALARIA Medic. Phil. Bot. 2: 70. 1791. 



Perennial creeping or spreading herbs, with long-petioled, mostly lobed, palmately veined 

 leaves, and solitary axillary white to violet flowers. Calyx 5-parted. Corolla irregular, 

 2-lipped, short-spurred ; upper lip 2-lobed, lower lip 3-lobed ; throat nearly or quite closed by 

 the palate. Stamens 4, didynamous, ascending, included, the filaments filiform. Style very 

 slender. Capsule dehiscent by 2 terminal 3-toothed pores. Seeds numerous, small. [From 

 the Greek for cymbal.] 



About 9 species, natives of the Old World, the following typical. 



i. Cymbalaria Cymbalaria (L.) Wettst. Kenil- 

 worth or Coliseum Ivy. Fig. 3739. 



Antirrhinum Cymbalaria L. Sp. PI. 612. 1753. 

 Linaria Cymbalaria Mill. Card. Diet. Ed. 8, no. 17. 1768. 

 Cymbalaria Cymbalaria Wettst. in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pfl. 

 Fam. 4: Abt. 30, 58. 1891. 



Perennial, glabrous; stem trailing, branched, often 

 rooting at the nodes, 3'-i2 r long. Leaves slender-petioled, 

 reniform-orbicular, palmately 3-5- veined, 3-5-lobed, i'-i' 

 in diameter, the lobes broad and obtuse ; petioles usually 

 as long as the blade ; flowers axillary, solitary, blue or 

 lilac, 4" -5" long; peduncles slender, recurved, shorter 

 than the petioles; calyx-segments lanceolate, acute; 

 palate yellowish; capsule globose, several-seeded; seeds 

 rugose, wingless. 



Waste places and roadsides, adventive from Europe, On- 

 tario to New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and in seaport 

 ballast. Other English names are ivy-leaved toadflax, ivy- 

 weed. Climbing or roving sailor. Aaron's-beard. Wander- 

 ing jew. Mother-of-thousands. Oxford-weed. Pennywort. 

 June- Aug. 



3. KICKXIA Dumort. Fl. Belg. 35. 1827. 

 [ELATINOIDES Wettst. in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pfl. Fam. 4: Abt. 3b, 58. 1891.] 



Mostly annual spreading or creeping herbs, with pinnately veined, short-petioled entire 

 toothed or lobed leaves, and solitary axillary white yellow or variegated flowers. Calyx 

 5-parted. Corolla irregular, spurred, 2-lipped, the throat closed by the palate. Stamens 4, 

 didynamous, included; filaments filiform. Capsule subglobose, or ovoid, opening by I or 2 

 terminal slits, pores or valves. Seeds numerous, ovoid, mostly rough or tubercled. [In 

 honor of Jean Kickx, 1775-1831, professor in Brussels.] 



About 25 species, natives of the Old World. Type species: Antirrhinum Elatlne L. 



Leaves ovate-orbicular, cordate or rounded at the base. 

 Leaves hastate. 



1 . K. spuria. 



2. K. Elatine. 



i. Kickxia spuria (L.) Dumort. Round-leaved Toad-Flax. Fig. 3740. 



Antirrhinum spurium L. Sp. PI. 613. 1753. 

 Linaria spuria Mill. Card. Diet. Ed. 8, no. 15. 1768. 

 Kickxia spuria Dumont. Fl. Belg. 35. 1827. 

 Elatinoides spuria Wettst. in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pfl. 

 Fam. 4: Abt. 3b, 58. 1891. 



Annual, pubescent all over ; stems prostrate, branched 

 or simple, 3'-2 long. Leaves short-petioled, ovate- 

 orbicular, entire, or sometimes dentate, mucronulate at 

 the apex, cordate or rounded at the base, i'-i' in diam- 

 eter; petioles i"-2" long; flowers solitary in the axils, 

 small; peduncles filiform, very pubescent, often much 

 longer than the leaves; calyx-segments ovate, acute at 

 the apex, cordate or rounded at the base, one-half as 

 long as the corolla; corolla yellowish with a purple 

 upper lip, the spur curved, about as long as the tube; 

 capsule subglobose, shorter than the calyx ; seeds ru- 

 gose, not winged. 



In waste places and ballast, New York to North Caro- 

 lina and Missouri. Adventive from Europe. This and the 

 next called also cancerwort and female-fluellin. June- 

 Sept. 



