FIG WORT FAMILY, Scrophularlaceas. 



sions ; the spur curving and threadlike. 5-30 inches 

 high. Common in dry, sandy soil, from Me., south, and 

 local west to the Pacific coast. The name from Linum, 

 flax. 



A very common but beautiful perennial 



Toad=flax or wee( j naturalized from Europe, with erect 

 Butter=and= 



E smooth stem, and gray-green linear, stem- 



Linaria less and toothless leaves growing alter- 



vulgaris nately but near together. The flowers are 



Yellow and about an inch long including the slender 

 orange ,. 



July-October s P ur ' and two-lipped, the upper lip two- 

 lobed, light yellow, the lower lip three- 

 lobed and pouch-shaped, tapering to the tip of the 

 slender spur, and furnished above with a protruding 

 gold-orange palate which nearly closes the throat of the 

 corolla ; the four stamens are tipped with ochre yellow 

 anthers ; the style is greenish. The flowers are assisted 

 in the process of fertilization by bumblebees and butter- 

 flies ; among the latter, Colias philodice (yellow) and 

 Melitcea phaeton, the Baltimore (brown), are frequent 

 visitors. 1-3 feet high. In fields, pastures, and city 

 lots, everywhere. 



A smooth annual with erect stem and 

 Small Snap- _ 



dragon light green linear leaves. The flowers 



Antirrhinum light purple or white, showy, solitary, and 

 Orontium with a sac-shaped, two-lipped corolla ; the 



Light purple U pp er Up two-lobed, the lower three-lobed. 

 June-August , . , T ~ , , 



About 1 foot high. In fields and waste 



places near dwellings. New Eng. and N. Y. Adventive 

 from Europe. 



A smooth perennial with a slender four- 

 S-rop 7 mlaria side'J, grooved stem and slender-stemmed, 

 marilandica ovate lance-shaped, toothed, light green 

 Green= leaves. Flowers small, sac-shaped, and 



magenta clustered on long, nearly leafless branch- 



September ^ e ^ s ' ^ ie two-lipped corolla green without, 

 and shiny brown-magenta within. 3-7 

 feet high. In thin woods and thickets, from N. Y, , 

 south to N, Car. and Tenn., and west to Kan. 



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