SCROPHULARIACEAE (FIG WORT FAMILY) 



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flowering season of the second year of growth, dried with great care 

 and be put up in close boxes, safe from moisture. 



Stems stout, erect, round or slightly angled 

 near the top, leafy and downy-hairy, two to 

 five feet high, appearing in the second year 

 of growth. Leaves of the first year all 

 basal, forming a dense rosette, spreading flat 

 on the ground ; long-ovate, rather thick, 

 finely toothed, tapering to petioles ; the upper 

 surface dull green and somewhat wrinkled, 

 the under side softly hairy and netted with 

 prominent veins ; the later stem leaves are 

 smaller, alternate and sessile or nearly so. 

 Flowers in slender, terminal, one-sided ra- 

 cemes, sometimes a foot in length ; corolla a 

 swollen pale purple tube, nearly two inches 

 long, drooping on a short pedicel, five-lobed, 

 the lower lobe finely white-hairy within, the 

 throat crimson-spotted ; stamens four, in 

 two unequal pairs, included in the corolla. 

 Capsule two-celled, ovoid, rather large, con- 

 taining many rough, brown seeds. (Fig. 

 267.) 



Means of control 



Deep hoe-cutting of base-leaves from the roots ; close cutting of 

 flower-stalks before the development of any seeds. 



FIG. 267. Purple 

 Foxglove (Digitalis pur- 

 purea). X J. 



COMMON SPEEDWELL 

 Verdnica officindlis, L. 



Other English names: Fluellin, Ground-hele, -Paul's Betony, Upland 



Speedwell. 



Native. Perennial. Propagates by seeds and by stolons. 

 Time of bloom : May to August. 

 Seed-time: July to October. 

 Range: Nova Scotia to Ontario and Michigan, southward to the 



Carolinas and Tennessee. Also native to Europe and Asia. 

 Habitat : Dry hillsides and open woods ; pastures, lawns, and waste 



places. 



