TOADFLAX 



The square-stemmed Monkey-Flower is usually 

 found in moist meadows or swamp land along cool 

 streams, and often in the wayside ditch. The pretty 

 blossoms open one or two at a time toward the top 

 of a slender, leafy stalk. The plant is not conspicuous, 

 and considerable imagination is required to see any 

 resemblance to an ape's face in the open, two-lipped 

 flower.. 



TOADFLAX. BUTTER-AND-EGGS. RANSTEAD 

 WEED 



Lindria vulgaris 



From Linum, flax, which the leaves of some species 

 resemble. 



A perennial herb, with erect, simple stems, one to three 

 feet high; with narrow gray-green leaves and yellow 

 flowers in a terminal spike, found in waste places and bor- 

 ders of fields. Naturalized from Europe. Nova Scotia 

 to Manitoba, south to Virginia and Kansas. June- 

 November. 



Stems. — Erect, leafy, glabrous, or slightly hairy; one 

 to three feet high. 



Leaves. — Alternate or irregular, sessile, Hnear, entire; 

 an inch or more long. 



Flowers. — Orange and yellow, borne in a dense, terminal 

 spike or raceme. 



Calyx. — Five-parted. 



Corolla. — Irregular, spurred at the base, two-lipped; 

 the upper lip erect, two-lobed, covering the lower in the 

 bud; the lower lip spreading, three-lobed; the middle 

 lobe shorter than the other two. 



Stamens. — Four, included, in two pairs; filaments 

 threadlike. 



