310 57. SCROPHULARIACE^:. 



cymes lax, sep. roundish-ovate with a narrow membranous 

 margin, staminode wedgeshqped slightly emarginate [rarely entire]. 

 E. B. 1544. Root tuberous, thick, knotty. St. 23 feet high. 

 Bracts small, lanceolate, acute. Fl. greenish purple, lurid, 

 sometimes green or pale. Caps, ovate. Moist hedges and 

 thickets. P. VI. VII. Knotted Figwort. E. S. I. 



2. S. umbrdsa (Dum.) 1 ; /. ovate-lanceolate acute subcordate 

 glabrous sharply serrate, lower teeth smaller, st, and petioles 

 winged, cymes lax few- (4 8-) flowered, sep. roundish with a 

 broad membranous margin, staminode bilobed with diverging 

 lobes. S. Ehrharti, C. A. Stev. E. B. S. 2875. Not S. (data 

 Gil. St. tall. Bracts leaflike. lanceolate, acute. Fl. dark purple. 

 Caps, subglobo&e, blunt. Wet places. P. VIII. IX. E. S. I. 



3. S. aquat'ica (L. !) ; /. cordate-oblong roundly blunt gla- 

 brous crenate-serrate, st. an d petioles winged, nj me s dense cor y m- 

 bose many- (1 15-) flowered, sep. roundish blunt with a broad 

 membranous margin, staminode roimdish-reniform. E. B. 854. 

 S. Balbisii Horn., Koch. St. 2 5 feet high. Bracts linear, 

 blunt. Fl. dark purple, occasionally milk-white. Caps, o id, 

 pointed. In wet places. P. VII. VIII. E. S, I. 



4. S. Scorodonia (L.) ; /. cordate-triangular with large double 

 teeth downy on both sides, st. bluntly quadrangular downy, cymes 

 lax few-flowered, sep. roundish downy with a membranous 

 margin, staminode roundish entire. E. B. 2209. St. 2 3 feet 

 high. L. wrinkled. Bracts leaflike, lower exactly like the leaves. 

 Fl. purple. Caps, ovoid, acute. In moist places. West of 

 Cornwall. Tralee, Kerry ? Jersey. P. VII. E, I. ? 



** Cal. of 5 deep acute segments. Cor. yellow ; no staminode. 



J5. S. verndlis (L.) ; /. downy cordate-acute doubly serrate, 

 st. winged hairy, cymes axillary corymbose with leaflike bracts, 

 sep. oblong with a recurved apex. E. B. 567. St. about 2 feet 

 high. FL yellow, inflated ; the mouth much contracted. Caps, 

 ovoid, acute. Differing greatly from the other species and 

 allied in appearance to some of the Calceolaria, Waste places, 

 rare. P. IV. V. E. S. ? 



6. LIMOSEL'LA. Linn. Mud wort. 



1. L. aquat'ica (L.) ; 1. lanceolate-spathulate on long stalks, 

 ped. axillary crowded shorter than the petioles. E. B. 357. 



1 See Du Mortier in Bull. Belg. vii. 36. 



