548 SCiiUrUULAlUACE.E. VerbascuiH. 



17. Orthocarpxis. Corolla with saccate lower lip huge in proiiortion to the upiier. Calyx 



liiliuiiir or (:um[iaiiulati), 4-clcrt. All Imt one anmiiil.s. 



18. CordylanthuB. l-ipsol' llin corolla holli short, of Hourly oiiual length; the lower merely 



a-ereniilate. Calyx !S[iathaceous, 'ii-leaved, anterior and posterior, or the anterior division 

 wanting. Anniial.s. 



•H ■♦- AnlliorH eijually '2-ct'llud. 



19. Pedicularis. Calyx irregular. Corolla various ; lower lip 3-lobed. Perennials. 



1. VERBASCUM, Linn. Mullein. 



Calyx 5-parteJ. Corolla rotate, more or less irregularly 5-lobe(l, the lobes broad 



and rounded. iStanieua 5, all with anthei-s, but more or less dissimilar : all the lila- 



luentd or the three ui)[)er woolly : anthers transverse. Style flattened and eidarged 



at the tip, entire. Cai)sule globular, many-seeiled. — Flowers in racemes or spikes. 



The Mulleins all belong to the Ohl World : some are introdueed weeds in the New. Hut oven 

 the eonniion one, K. T/itijtsus, is yet unknown on the I'aeilic coast, althougli a Moth Mullein, 

 dillerenl Iruni that found in the Atlantic States, is sparingly spontaneous. 



1. V. virgatum, Withering. Annual or biennial, 3 or 4 feet high: leaves ob- 

 long, creiiate-lootheil, nearly ghibrous : raceme loose and virgate, somewhat hairy 

 anil glandular : pedicels not longer than the broadish calyx-lobes, sorue of them 

 clustered : corolla yellow or sometimes white : lilaments all violet-bearded. 



Waste grounds, natiindized in a lew places, horn Southern Europe, inoUbly by way of Mexieo. 



2. LINARIA, Tourn. Toad-flax. 

 Calyx r)-parted. (Corolla strongly bilabiate, personate, i. e. with a prondnent 

 palate to the lower li[) nearly closing the throat, the base at the front continued 

 into a dependent spur. Stamens 4 : anthers 2-celled. Stigma nearly entire. Cap- 

 sule opening by an irregular hole near the top of each cell, many-seeded. 



While the Ohl World aliounds in species, only one or two are indigenous to the New. Even 

 tlie eonimon Toad-llax of Europe, Z. vahjarus, which is a pernicious although liandsonie weed in 

 the Atlantic States, is happily yet unknown in California. 



1. L. Canadensis, Dum. A .slender and nearly glabrous annual or bieniual, a 

 spnn to 2 feet high, with liiieur alternate leiives tm the erect liowering stems, but 

 tile smaller and broader oncjs crowded on procumbent radical shoots oftener opposite 

 or whorled : flowers small, blue, in a terminal raceme, on erect pedicels not longer 

 than the slender curved spur. 



Sandy ground, less conniion than in tlie Atlantic States, extending far into South America. 



3. ANTIRRHINUM, Tourn. Snai'UUA(;on. 

 Like Linaria, except that the corolla has merely a sac-like ])rotuberance or gib- 

 bosity at base in front, instead of a spur. Sometimes the cells of the capsule oi)cn 

 by two holes. — For N. American species, see Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. vii. 372. 



A genus of soveral Old World species and of as many ('alifornian ones, none in the Atlantic 

 States, except that the cultivated Smipdragon, A. imjus, and the insignilicant A. OroiUiuin, aro 

 disposed to escape from gardens. 



A. cvAriiiKKiuiM, M(Mitii. Mot. Sulph., is disscribod from bower California, an annual, willi 

 eupshaped seeds. Nothing like it has been detected in the State or on its bordeis. 



§ 1. Herbs, with entire leaves short-petiokd or sessile, all hut the lowest alternate: 

 corolla with very protuberant palate closing the throat or nearly so : seeds not 

 eupshaped nor maryiued, but ruyose-pitted or tuberculate : capsule oblique, the 

 persistent style or its base bent forwards. {Ours are all annuals, so far as 

 the root is known ; the upper lip of the corolla sjireadiny, and the lobes of 

 the lower dejlexed.) — Antikhhinastuum, (Jhavannes. 



