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FIGWORT FAMILY. 



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4. Monniera rotundifolia Michx. Round-leaved Hedge-Hyssop. (Fig. 3274. ) 



Monniera rotundifolia Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 



22. 1803. 

 Herpestis rotundifolia Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 418. 



1814. 



Perennial by stolons, succulent; stems 

 creeping and spreading, branched or simple, 

 villous-pubescent, i-2 long. Leaves obo- 

 vate or orbicular, palmately veined, entire, 

 or slightly undulate, narrowed to a sessile or 

 clasping base, Yz f -\ f broad, glabrous, not 

 punctate; peduncles stout, shorter than the 

 leaves, solitary or 2 together in the axils, 

 longer than the flowers; flowers blue, 3 // -4 // 

 long; upper calyx-segment oval; corolla 2- 

 lipped, longer than the calyx; stamens ap- 

 proximate in pairs; stigma 2-lobed; disk ob- 

 solete; capsule oblong, obtuse, \% ,f high, 

 at length 4-valved, shorter than the calyx. 



On muddy shores, Illinois to Nebraska, south 

 to Tennessee and Texas. Also in California (?) 

 June-Sept. 



14. GRATIOLA L. Sp. PL 17. 1753. 



Erect or diffuse glabrous glandular-pubescent or hirsute herbs, with opposite entire or 

 dentate leaves, and yellow or whitish peduncled flowers solitary in the axils. Peduncles 

 2-bracteolate at the summit in the following species. Calyx 5-parted, the segments narrow, 

 slightly unequal. Corolla irregular, its tube cyiindric, its limb more or less 2-lipped; upper 

 lip entire, emarginate, or 2-cleft; lower lip 3-lobed. Perfect stamens 2, the anterior pair 

 wanting, or represeuted by rudiments; filaments filiform; anther-sacs distinct, transverse 

 and separated by a broad connective, or parallel and contiguous. Style filiform; stigma di- 

 lated, slightly 2-lobed. Capsule loculicidally and septicidally dehiscent, ovoid or globose, 

 4-valved. Seeds numerous, longitudiually and transversely striate. [Latin, grace or favor, 

 from its reputed healing properties.] 



About 25 species, of wide geographic distribution in temperate and warm regions. Besides the 

 following, some 7 others occur in southern and western North America. 



Plants glabrous or glandular; anther-sacs transverse, separated. 

 Sterile filaments minute or none. 



Glandular-puberulent; flowers 4" -5" long; capsule ovoid. 1. 



Glabrous; flowers 7" long; capsule globose. 2. 



Sterile filaments 2, slender, capitate at the summit. 



Leaves lanceolate, entire or remotely denticulate. 3. G. aurea. 



Leaves ovate or oblong, sharply serrate. 4. G. viscosa. 



Plant hirsute; anther-sacs parallel, contiguous. 5. G. pilosa. 



i. Gratiola Virginiana L. Clammy- 

 Hedge- Hyssop. (Fig. 3275.) 



Gratiola Virginiana L- Sp. PI. 17. 1753- 



Annual; stem erect, at length widely branch- 

 ed, glandular puberulent, at least above, 3 / -i2 / 

 high. Leaves oblong or oblong-lanceolate, ses- 

 sile, narrowed to both ends, denticulate, i / -2 / 

 long, 2 // -5 // wide, glabrous or nearly so; pedun- 

 cles slender, glandular, shorter than or equalling 

 the leaves; flowers 4 // -5 // long; bractletsaslong 

 as the calyx, or longer; calyx about one-half as 

 long as the yellowish corolla-tube; limb of the 

 corolla short, white; sterile filaments minute or 

 none; authcr-sacs transverse, separated by a 

 broad connective; capsule broadly ovoid, 2" 

 high, as long as the calyx. 



In wet places, Quebec to British Columbia, south 

 to Florida, ^Texas and California. Ascends to 3000 

 ft. in Virginia. May-Oct. 



II 



G. Virginiana. 

 G. sphaerocarpa. 



