FIGWORT FAMILY 



peloria state is meant the condition in which a plant 

 that normally produces irregular flowers, produces 

 regular ones. The earliest recorded observation of 

 such a condition was made by Linnaeus and upon our 

 wandering Toadflax. Sometimes there are a few such 

 in a flowering spike, sometimes 

 an entire stem bears only regular 

 five-spurred blossoms. 



DOWNY FALSE FOXGLOVE. 

 YELLOW GERARDIA 



Das'^stoma fldva. Gerdrdia fldva 



Dasystoma, Greek, thick or 

 hairy mouth, referring to the 

 corolla. Gerardia, in honor 

 of John Gerarde, surgeon 

 and botanist. 



A perennial, native plant, dwell- 

 ing in dry woods and thickets, 

 and rarely found by the roadside. 

 Massachusetts to Wisconsin, 

 south to Georgia and Mississippi. 

 July-September. 



Stem. — Two to three feet high, 

 obtusely four-angled, grayish, 



Yellow Gerardil. Dasystoma f^^^^ ^ith a few nearly erect 



flava branches. 



Leaves. — Opposite, oblong, lan- 

 ceolate or ovate-lanceolate, entire, or the lower sinuate- 

 dentate, sometimes pinnatifid; upper leaves passing into 

 the bracts of the raceme. 



Flowers. — Funnel-shaped, over an inch long, bright yel- 

 low, in terminal, leafy-bracted racemes. 



Calyx. — Bell-like, five-lobed; lobes as long as the tube. 

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