820 FLORA. 



flowers yellow, or cream-color, 2.5 cm. broad or more, usually in a tomentose 

 spike-like raceme; pedicels clustered, shorter than the calyx; stamens as in V. 

 Thapsus. Eastern Mass. Adventive or fugitive from Europe. June-Aug. 



3. Verbascum Lychnitis L. WHITE MULLEN. (I. E. f. 3231.) Stem an- 

 gled, branched above, 6-14 dm. high, densely covered with a white nearly stellate 

 pubescence. Leaves oblong, ovate or oblong-lanceolate, crenate-dentate, 5-17 cm. 

 long, the upper acute, sessile, the lower narrowed into margined petioles; flowers 

 in a large terminal panicle, racemose on its branches, white or cream color, 

 10-12 mm. broad, nearly sessile; pilose hairs of the 3 shorter filaments white; cap- 

 sule about 4 mm. high. In fields and waste places, Out. to N. J. and Penn. Re- 

 ported from Karis. Nat. from Europe. June- Sept. 



4. Verbascum Blattaria L. MOTH MULLEN. (I. F. f. 3232.) Stem 

 terete, usually simple, 6-18 dm. high. Leaves oblong, ovate or lanceolate, den- 

 tate, laciniate, or pinnatifid,- acute or acuminate, the upper truncate or cordate- 

 clasping at the base, the basal ones seldom present at flowering time; raceme 

 3-6 dm. long, loose; pedicels spreading, 1-2.5 cm - l n g> bracted at the base; 

 corolla yellow or white, about 2.5 cm. broad, with brown marks on the back; fila- 

 ments alt pilose with violet hairs; capsule depressed-globose, 6 mm. in diameter. 

 In fields and wr.ste places, Quebec to Fla., Minn, and "Kans. Nat. from Europe. 

 June -Nov. 



2. CYMBALARIA Medic. 



Perennial creeping or spreading herbs, with long-petioled, mostly lobed, pal- 

 mately veined leaves, and solitary axillary white to violet flowers. Calyx 5-parted. 

 Corolla irregular, 2-lipped, short- spurred; upper lip 2-lobed, lower lip 3-lobed; 

 throat nearly or quite closed by the palate. Stamens 4, didynamous, ascending, 

 included, the filaments filiform. Style very slender. Capsule dehiscent by 2 ter- 

 minal 3 -toothed pores. Seeds numerous, small. [From the Greek for cymbal.] 

 About 9 species, of the Old World. 



i. Cymbalaria Cymbalaria (L.) Wettst. KENILWORTH OR COLISEUM IVY. 

 (I. F. f. 3233.) Glabrous; stem trailing, often rooting at the nodes, 1-3 dm. long. 

 Leaves reniform-orbicular, 3-5 lobed, 0.6-2.5 cm - ^ n diameter, the lobes broad 

 and obtuse; flowers blue or lilac, 8-IO mm., long; peduncles slender, recurved, 

 shorter than the petioles; calyx-segments lanceolate, acute; palate yellowish; cap- 

 sule globose; seeds rugose. Waste places and roadsides, adventive from Europe, 

 N. Y., N. J. and Penn., and in seaport ballast. June-Aug. 



3. Kl'CKXIA Dumort. 



[ELATINOIDES Wettst.] 



Mostly annual spreading or creeping herbs, with pinnately veined, short-peti- 

 oled leaves, and solitary axillary white yellow or variegated flowers. Calyx 5- 

 parted. Corolla irregular, spurred, 2-lipped, the throat closed by che palate. 

 Stamens 4, didynamous, included; filaments filiform. Capsule opening by I or 2 

 terminal slits, pores, or valves. Seeds ovoid, mostly rough or tubercled. About 

 25 species, natives of the Old World. [In honor of Johann Kickx, professor in 

 Ghent.] 



Leaves ovate-orbicular, cordate or rounded at the base. i. E. spuria. 



Leaves triangular, mostly hastate. 2. E. Elatine. 



1. Kickxia spuria (L.) Dumort. ROUND-LEAVED TOAD-FLAX. (I. F. f. 

 32^4,) Annual, pubescent; steins prostrate, o. 7-6 dm. long. Leaves ovate-orbicu- 

 lar" entire, or sometimes dentate, mucronulate, cordate or rounded at the base, 

 0.62.5 cm. in diameter; petioles 2-4 mm. long; flowers small; peduncles filiform, 

 very pubescent, often much longer than the leaves; calyx-segments ovate, acute at 

 the apex, cordate or rounded at the base, one- half as long as the corolla;, corolla 

 yellowish with a purple upper lip, the spur curved ; capsule subglobose. In waste 

 places and ballast, N. Y. to N. Car. Adventive from Europe. June-Sept. \Elati~ 

 noides spuria Wettst. ] 



2. Kickxia Elatine (L.) Dumort. SHARP-POINTED FLUELLIN OR TOAD-FLAX. 

 (I. 7 f 3235.) Annual, pubescent; stems prostrate, 1.5-6 dm. long. Leaves 



