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SCROPHULARIACEAE. 



[Vol. III. 



2. Antirrhinum Orontium L,. 



Lesser Snapdragon. (Fig. 3241.) 



Antirrhinum Orontium L- Sp. PI. 617. 1753- 



Annual, glabrous or pubescent; stem erect, 

 simple, or branched, slender, about i high. 

 Leaves narrowly linear, or the lower linear- 

 spatulate, almost sessile, narrowed at both 

 ends, i / -2 / long, i // -2 // wide; flowers soli- 

 tary in the upper axils, purple, mostly dis- 

 tant, 5 // -7 // long; peduncles shorter than the 

 flowers; calyx-segments linear, somewhat 

 unequal, as long as the corolla, elongated 

 in fruit so as much to exceed the pubescent 

 capsule. 



In fields and waste places, New England and 

 New York. Also on Vancouver Island. Ad- 

 ventive from Europe. Native also of Asia. 

 June-Aug. 



6. SCROPHULARIA I,. Sp. PI. 619. 1753. 



Perennial strong-smelling herbs, some exotic species shrubby, with mostly opposite 

 large leaves, and small purple greenish or yellow proterogynous flowers, in terminal pani- 

 cled cymes or thyrses. Calyx 5-parted or 5-cleft, the segments or lobes mostly obtuse. 

 Corolla irregular, the tube globose to oblong, not gibbous nor spurred at the base, the limb 

 5-lobed, the 2 upper lobes longer, erect, the lateral ones ascending, the lower spreading or 

 reflexed. Stamens 5, 4 of them anther-bearing and didynamous, declined, mostly included, 

 their anther-sacs confluent into one, the fifth sterile, reduced to a scale on the roof of the 

 corolla tube. Style filiform; stigma capitate or truncate. Capsule ovoid, septicidally dehis- 

 cent. Seeds rugose, not winged. [Named for its repute as a remedy for scrofula.] 



About 120 species, natives of the northern hemisphere, most abundant in southern Europe. 

 Besides the following, 2 or 3 others occur in the western United States. 



Corolla dull outside; sterile stamen deep purple. 1. S. Marylandica. 



Corolla shining outside; sterile stamen greenish yellow. 2. 5. leporella. 



i. Scrophularia Marylandica L. Maryland Figwort, Heal-all or Pilewort. 



(Fig. 3242.) 



Scrophularia Marylandica L,. Sp. PI. 619. 1753. 

 Scrophularia nodosa var. Marylandica A. Gray, 

 Syn. Fl. 2: Part 1, 258. 1878. 



Glabrous below, somewhat glandular-pu- 

 bescent above; stem slender, 4-angled with 

 grooved sides, usually widely branched, 

 erect, 3-io high. Leaves membranous, 

 slender-petioled, usually puberuleut beneath, 

 ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate at the 

 apex, sharply serrate, narrowed, truncate or 

 subcordate at the base, 3 / -i2 / long; flowers 

 greenish-purple, 3 // -4 // long, very numerous 

 in the nearly leafless thyrses; bractlets mostly 

 opposite, pedicels slender, ascending, 4 // -i2 // 

 long; calyx-lobes broadly ovate, obtuse, about 

 the length of the tube; corolla green, dull 

 without, brownish purple and shining with- 

 in, little contracted at the throat, the two 

 lateral lobes slightly spreading, the upper lip 

 erect, its lobes short, rounded; capsule sub- 

 globose, with a slender tip; sterile stamen 

 deep purple. 



In woods and thickets, New York to Kansas, North Carolina and Tennessee. Ascends to 4000 

 ft. in North Carolina. The ranges of this and the following species are not yet definitely deter- 

 mined. July-Sept. 



