170 SCROPHULAKIACEAE 



1. VERBASCUM L. 



Erect herbs with alternate leaves and spicate or racemose flowers. 

 Corolla rotate, 5-lobed, the lobes nearly equal. Three or all the fila- 

 ments pilose. 



Plant densely woolly. 1. F. Thapsus. 



Plant nearly glabrous. 2. V. Blatiaria. 



1. V. Thapsus L. MULLEN. 2-8 high : leaves oblong, crenulate, 

 decurrent : flowers yellow in a dense spike. An abundant weed in waste 

 places. June-September. 



2. V. Blattaria L. MOTH MULLEN. l-3 high, slender : leaves 

 oblong, doubly dentate, the lower petioled, the upper clasping : flowers 

 purplish-white in a loose raceme. Locally frequent in fields near Inde- 

 dependence and Courtney. May-July. 



2. LINARIA Hill. 



Herbs with alternate leaves and spicate-racemose flowers. Corolla 

 nearly closed in the throat. 



1. L. vulgaris Mill. BUTTER-AND-EGGS. Glabrous perennial, l-3 

 high : leaves linear : corolla yellow, 1' long. Locally naturalized in 

 waste places, Grain Valley, Independence, Kansas City, Sibley. June- 

 October. 



3. SCROPHULARIA L. FIGWOBT. 



Perennial herbs with opposite leaves and cymose-paniculate flowers. 

 Two upper lobes of corolla erect, longer than the lower. 



Sterile stamen purple. 1. S. Marylandica. 



Sterile stamen greenish-yellow. 2. 5. leporella. 



1. S. Marylandica L. 3-8 high, nearly glabrous : inflorescence 

 glandular-pubescent : leaves ovate, slender-petioled, sharply serrate : 

 corolla 3" long, dull without, shining within. Common in thickets 

 throughout. July-October. 



2. S. leporella Bicknell. Closely resembles the last : corolla shining 

 without, dull within. Occurs locally near Sheffield and Independence. 

 May-June. 



4. CHELONB L. 



Herbs with opposite leaves and densely spicate, bracted flowers. Co- 

 rolla tube inflated, the upper lip concave, emarginate, the lower 3-lobed. 



1. C. glabra L. TURTLE HEAD. l-3 high, glabrous : leaves lan- 

 ceolate, short-petioled, serrate : flowers white, 1' long. On a hillside 

 along the Mo. Pac. R.R. between Lee's Summit and Little Blue Tank. 

 Rare. July-September. 



5. PENTSTEMON Soland. BEARD TONGUE. 

 Herbs with opposite leaves and racemose panicled flowers. Corolla 

 tubular, its limb slightly 2-lipped. 



