SCROPHULAniACE^. (FIG WORT FAMILY.) '16'^ 



usually bluish or pale with blue stripes : capsule oblatdy orbicular and obcor- 

 date. — Througliout the coutiuent. 



* * * Zow annuals: flowers in the axils of ordinar>/ or brart4tke commonhi 



alternate leaves^ vcnj skort-pedicelled. 

 6. V. peregl'ina, L. Glabrous, or above inimUcly pul)Os<-ent or glandu- 

 lar : stem and l)iauclics erect, a span or two lii<^li : leaves thickiMh ; lowest 

 petioled and obloug or oval, dentate; tlie others sessile, from oblong to 

 linear-spatulate; uppermost more bractlike and entire: capsule orbicular and 

 ilightly obcordate. — Throughout tlie continent. " Meckweed." 



11. GERARDIA, L. 



Erect and branching herbs ; with mainly opposite leaves, the uppermost 



reduced to bracts of tlie racemose or paniculate showy llowers. (Jnr sjiecies 

 belong to the section with purple or rose-colored llowers and linear or filiform 

 cauline leaves, the herbage blackening in drying. 



1. G. aspera, Dougl. Stems and In-anches strict: leaves rather erect, 

 strongli/ hispidulous-scabrous, all Jili/orm-linear: pedicels mostlij etjiia/liiit/ and 

 sometimes moderately exceeding the caltjx, erect: cali/x-lobrs deltoid-subulate or 

 triangular-lanceolate from a broad base, about liaf tlie length of the tulte: anthers 

 obsrureli/ if at all mucronulate at base. — On the plains within the eastern limit 

 of our range, and extending eastward to "Wisconsin and Illinois. 



2. G. tenuifolia, Vahl. Smooth or nsuallg so, about a foot high, panicu- 

 lately much branched, but the inflorescence racemose : leaves mostly narrowly 

 linear, equalling the lower bid mostly shorter than the uppermost pedicels: calyx- 

 teeth very short: corolla about a half-inch long: anthers woolly, and cuspidate- 

 mucronate at base. 



Var. macrophylla, Benth. Stouter: larger leaves Ij to2 iiulies long 

 and almost 2 lines wide, scabrous : pedicels ascending : calyx-teeth usually 

 larger : corolla little over a half-inch long. — From Colorado to W. lowa and 

 W. Louisiana. 



12. CAST ILL EI A, Mntis. Painted-Cup. 



Herbs with alternate entire or laciniate leaves, passing above into usually 

 more incised and mostly colored conspicuous bracts of a terminal spike: the 

 flowers solitary in their axils, red, purple, yellowish, or whitish; but the 

 corolla almost always duller-colored than the calyx or bracts. 



* Annuals icith virgate stems, mostly tall and slender : leai'es and bracts all linear- 



lanceolate and entire; the latter or at least the upper with red linear tips. 

 1. C. minor, Gray. A foot or two high, pubescence villous or sor. 

 hirsute: flowers all pedicellate, the lower rnther remote in the leafy spike: 

 calyx gibbous and broadest at base, wholly green, about opially cleft before 

 and behind to near the middle : corolla narrow and straight, h to J inch lonp, 

 yellow; galea (upper lip) very much longer than the small lip, much shorter 

 than the tube. — Bot. Calif, i. 573. C. a finis, var. minor, Gray. In wet 

 ground, from Nebraska to W. Nevada and New Mexico. 



