l68 SCROPHULARIACEAE. 



SOLANUM. 



Usually herbs, (potato, egg plant, etc.) ; the following (bit- 

 tersweet) a soft-wooded perennial twining climber with alternate 

 leaves ; wheel-shaped perfect violet flowers in stalked clusters 

 from above the axils ; and ovoid red berries. 

 Leaves cordate or hastately lobed or divided. S. Dulcamara. 



Family SCROPHULARIACEAE. Figwort Family. 

 A large family, chiefly herbaceous, including foxglove, snap- 

 dragon, etc., of the gardens, and such common weeds as mullein 

 and speedwell. The following is a street tree as far north as 

 Brooklyn. 



PAULOWNIA. 



Deciduous medium-sized trees with rather soft brownish 

 wood with small ducts, more or less crowded in spring and tan- 

 gentially seriate in summer, and fine medullary rays ; stout round- 

 ish twigs flattened at the nodes ; roundish large pith, chambered, 

 -or excavated between the nodes; opposite somewhat raised large 

 subelliptical leaf-scars with numerous bundle-traces in a single 

 series ; no stipule-scars ; rounded mostly superposed buds with 

 several exposed scales ; large ovate petioled leaves ; violet gamo- 

 petalous 2-lipped large flowers in terminal panicles ; and ovoid 

 capsules with winged seeds. 

 Leaves cordate, pubescent. (Imperial tree). P. tomentosa. 



Family BIGNONIACEAE. Bignonia Family. 

 A rather small warm-region family including many woody 

 climbers, frequent in conservatories, and some trees ; occasionally 

 yielding valuable timber, such as primavera. 



BIGNONIA. Cross Vine. 



More or less evergreen woody plants, climbing by leaf tendrils ; 

 with brownish soft wood with large crowded ducts in spring, 

 minute scattered ducts in autumn, and unequal medullary rays 

 of which 4, consisting of brown bast, may be conspicuous in the 

 form of a cross; rather slender twigs square or somewhat flat- 

 tened at the nodes ; rounded mostly excavated pith ; opposite half- 

 round somewhat raised leaf-scars with i bundle-trace; no stipule- 



