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gularity of the corolla sometimes . 

 tendency to form pouches or spun. 1 1 

 and Antirrhinum, in which the corolla I 

 convexity on the undei the limb, the result ol 



called ringent ; and also a direction downwards, which 

 tin- genua ' alceolaria it caus - the anterior I 

 dipper. <»n the other hand, in the genua Veronica, 

 symmetry almoet wholly disappear. 



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In this Order many species liave a stigma composed ol t»" highly irritable | 

 one placed next the back and the other next the front of the flower. When t 

 tir-t expands, these plates Btand apart and are even turned i 

 touched they collapse suddenly and with some force. This phei 

 described by Mr. Henderson in the .1 . // I vol.6. | 



A curious L. r '-ir.-.--, called Schwenkia, with clavate glanda growing from tl 

 it- corolla, usually referred t" this Order, was formerly n 

 stamens having appeared to me !•> be opposite the lol 

 more than twenty years since 1 had an opportunity "t examining it, and Mr 

 now assures me thai tin- rial petals are the aforesaid glands witli which ■ 

 alternate, and thai it is a genuine member of the < >rder <>t Figworts. 



These plant- are found in abundance in all part-, of the world, from the c 

 in which the vegetation of flowering plant- take- place, to the !■ 

 tropics. One species is found in Melville Island; in the middl 

 about a 26th of tin- flowering plant-, and in North America 

 New Holland, and South America they are common ; and, final -. 

 Tierra del Fuego are ornamented with Beveral genera. 



The Bpecies are generally acrid, bitterish, and suspected. Tlie I 

 Scrophularia aquatica, and perhaps nodosa, some species I l 

 act as purgatives, or even as emetics. In Digitalis purpurea, ochn 



a and other Bpecies, this quality i- bo much incr< 

 highly dangerous ; the powdered leavi s, or an extrad ■■: tin i 

 t i. >ii, mil vertigo, increase the accretion of the saliva and urin . 

 cause death. The Mulleins approach Digitalis in tin- i 

 Thaspus and nigrum are used bj poachers to poison fish, and tl 

 ni;i- are Bometimes used t" destroy mice : the foliage of tin 

 ish. The leaves of Mimulua guttatua are eatable as Bala I. I 

 Torenia asiatica are considered, on the Malabar ci 

 Bion ofSooparia dulcia i- used by the Indiana of Spanish v 

 Brazil against tusmorrhoidal affections. Buphi 

 aromatic, and has been employed with success by Kranii 

 tiona of the eye ; he has also found it beneficial in cough, 

 ache, which have supervened in catarrhal affecti 

 said to be fond of Melampyrum pratense : an I Linns 

 butter i- made where it abounds. The Pediculari 

 Nearly all that tribe turn Mack in drying. Hi ' 

 bitter ; but its properties have nol been invi sJ . 

 the bitterness of it- roots : i: i- usi 1 on that a.-. -.Hint in I 

 Vandellia diffusa i- said !■• l due in '• 



Pig < i i i I. XI.— 1. Slipper-shaped 



gent and spurred corolla of I.iu.-im. 



