FIGWORT FAMILY 763 



2-lipped; lobes 5, unequal, rotately spreading; tube slightly gibbous above. Sta- 

 mens 4, soon ascending, not inclosed; staminodium rudimentary. Capsule ovoid, 

 2-valved. Seeds 1-4 in each cell, oval. 



1. T. floribunda A. Gray. Annual; stem 2-5 dm. high, glabrous; stem- 

 leaves mostly 3-5-foliolate, with linear or oblong leaflets, 1-5 cm. long; floral 

 leaves verticillate ; corolla blue or purple; lobes broadly obovate. Banks and 

 basaltic rocks: Ida. Wash. Ore. Son. Ap.-My. 



6. SCROPHULARIA (Tourn.) L. FIGWORT. 



Perennial, caulescent herbs. Leaves opposite, usually petioled, with broad, 

 toothed or incised blades. Flowers perfect, in terminal, paniculate cymes. 

 Calyx with 5 short broad lobes. Corolla 2-lipped, purple, yellowish, or green; 

 tube usually short; upper lip erect; lower lip with a spreading or reflexed middle 

 lobe. Stamens 4, short; staminodium scale-like, in ours spatulate. Styles 

 united. Capsule ovoid, 2-valved. Seeds numerous, marginless, rugose. 



Leaves simply serrate, none lobed at the base; corolla-tub.e barely twice as long as the 

 calyx. 1. 5. serrata. 



Leaves incised or doubly serrate with sharp teeth , the lower inclined to be incised-lobed 

 at the base ; corolla-tube more than twice as long as the calyx. 2. .S. occidentalis. 



1. S. serrata Rydb. Stem 1-2 m. high, angled, sparingly puberulent or 

 glabrous, slightly glandular in the inflorescence; leaf-blades ovate or cordate, 

 5-15 cm. long; corolla-tube short, 6-7 mm. long; upper lip 4-5 mm. long; sterile 

 stamen obovate-spatulate, purple. Wet places: Ida. Submont. Jl. 



2. S. occidentalis (Rydb.) Bickn. Stem 1-2 m. high, more or less puberu- 

 lent, or glabrate below, glandular in the inflorescence ; leaves ovate ; corolla lurid- 

 greenish; tube gibbous below, 5 mm. long; upper lip about 3 mm. long; sterile 

 stamen greenish yellow, very broad, kidney-shaped, on a distinct claw; capsule 

 ovoid, 8-10 mm. long. Low ground in thickets and woods: N.D. Okla. N.M. 

 Calif. Wash. Submont. Mont. 



7. PENTSTEMON (Mitchell) Schmidel. BEARD-TONGUE, MAYFLOWER, 

 PRIDE-OF-THE-MOUNTAIN. 



Perennial, caulescent herbs. Leaves opposite, from petioled to sessile and 

 clasping, entire or toothed, or rarely pinnatifid. Flowers irregular, in terminal 

 racemes or panicles. Calyx deeply 5-cleft. Corolla 2-lipped, elongate, open; 

 the tube often somewhat ventricose above, but not gibbous at the base; upper 

 lip mostly erect, with 2 spreading lobes. Stamens 4; filaments nearly equal; 

 staminodium well developed, spatulate, usually bearded. Styles united; stigma 

 capitate. Capsule usually ovoid, 2-valved. Seeds numerous, wingless. Anther- 

 cells either united or confluent. 



Corolla blue, purple, white, or yellowish, more or less funnelform or salverform. 

 Anthers bearded. 



Plants suffrutescent; leaves leathery; anthers densely villous; sterile stamens 



usually glabrous. I. FRUTICOSI. 



Plants not fruticose; leaves nob leathery. 



Plant more or less glandular at least in the rather few-flowered inflorescence; 



anthers densely villous ; sterile stamen glabrous. II. MONTANI. 



Plants glabrous or puberulent, not at all glandular; inflorescence dense and 

 many-flowered; anthers and sterile stamens sparingly bearded. 



III. GLABRI. 

 Anthers glabrous or merely hirtello-ciliate along the line of dehiscence. 



Anthers dehiscent for nearly their whole length or at least at their distal end. 

 Plants not suffruticose at the base. 

 Leaves not linear-filiform. 



Corolla decidedly funnelform, i. e., throat much wider than the tube. 

 Sterile stamen glabrous ; plant tall. III. GLABRI. 



Sterile stamen bearded. 



Corolla over 3 cm. long, strongly ventricose; stem-leaves clasp- 

 ing. 



Leaves strongly serrate. IV. PALMERIANI. 



Leaves with entire margins. V. GRANDIFLORI. 



Corolla about 2 cm. long or less; leaves linear or oblanceolate, 



not clasping; plant low. 

 Plants perfectly glabrous. 



