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FIGWORT FAMILY. 



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2. Scrophularia leporella Bicknell. 

 Hare Figwort. (Fig. 3243.) 



Scrophularia leporella Bicknell, Bull. Torr. Club, 

 23: 317. 1896. 



Stem puberulent below, viscid-glandular 

 above, sharply 4-angled with flat sides, 3-8 p tall, 

 simple, or somewhat branched. Leaves short- 

 petioled, ovate to lanceolate, acuminate at the 

 apex, mostly narrowed at the base, but some- 

 times subcordate, glabrous on both sides when 

 mature, usually iucised-dentate, 2 / -io / long; 

 flowers 4 // -5 // long, in elongated narrow thyrses; 

 bractlets mostly alternate; calyx-lobes ovate, 

 obtuse, or acute; corolla contracted at the throat, 

 green to purple and shining without, dull 

 within, the two lateral lobes erect; lobes of the 

 upper lip often narrowly oblong; sterile stamen 

 greenish yellow; capsule ovoid-conic. 



In woods and along roadsides, Connecticut to 

 Minnesota, Virginia and Nebraska. Ascends to 

 3500 ft. in Virginia. May-July. 



7. CHELONE L,. Sp. PL 611. 1753. 



Perennial, mostly glabrous branched or simple herbs, with opposite serrate petioled leaves, 

 and large white red or purple flowers, in terminal and axillary dense spikes. Calyx 5-parted, 

 bracted at the base, the segments ovate or lanceolate. Corolla irregular, the tube elongated, 

 enlarged above, the limb 2-lipped; upper lip concave, emarginate or entire, exterior in the 

 bud; lower lip spreading, woolly within, 3-lobed, its lateral lobes sometimes longer than the 

 middle one. Stamens 5, included, 4 of them antheriferous, didynatnous, the fifth sterile, 

 smaller; filaments slender, woolly; anthers woolly, cordate. Style filiform; stigma small, 

 capitate. Capsule ovoid, septicidally dehiscent. Seeds numerous, compressed, winged. 

 [Greek, tortoise, the head of which the corolla resembles.] 



Three species, natives of eastern North America. 



Corolla white; bracts not ciliolate. i. C. glabra. 

 Corolla red or rose-purple; bracts ciliolate. 



Leaves oblong or lanceolate. 2. C. obliqua. 



Leaves ovate, acuminate; mountain plant. 3. C. Lyoiii. 



i. Chelone glabra L. Snake- 

 head. Turtle-head. 

 (Fig. 3244.) 



Chelone glabra L- Sp. PI. 611. 1753. 



Stem slender, erect, obtusely 4-sided, 

 simple or sometimes branched, strict, i- 

 3 high, the branches erect. Leaves lan- 

 ceolate, sharply serrate with low ap- 

 pressed teeth, acuminate at the apex, nar- 

 rowed at the base, short-petioled, 3 / -6 / 

 long, % / -i% / wide, the principal veins 

 about 10 on each side of the mid vein; flow- 

 ers white or faintly pink, about i' long; 

 bracts glabrous, not ciliolate; calyx-seg- 

 ments ovate-oblong,obtuse; capsule ovoid, 

 obtuse, about y 2 ' high, twice as long as 

 the calyx. 



In swamps and along streams, Newfound- 

 land to Florida, west to Manitoba and Kansas. 

 Ascends to 3000 ft. in the Adirondacks. 

 Called also Shell-flower, Cod-head, Bitter- 

 herb and Balmony. Lower leaves sometimes 

 broadly oval. July-Sept. 



