THF FIGWORT FAMILY. 461 



Antirrhinum niajus, lion's-mouth or great snap-dragon, bearing purplish- 

 red or variously coloured Howers which are quite large, occasionally is seen 

 as an escape from the garden to the roadside. 



Dii^italis purpurea, purple foxglove, fairies' caps, thimbles, gloves and 

 known by over sixty other English names has quite an important place in 

 old-fashioned gardens and also is said sparingly to have escaped from 

 cultivation. 



PauIo'iv7iia tomcntbsa, paulownia, appears as a tree with a maximum 

 height of about seventy feet, an extreme of the great family of figworts. In 

 the south it has escaped somewhat from cultivation as it belongs to a 

 monotypic genus of Japan. In personality and foliage it is very much like 

 the catalpa tree, but the Howers of its great panicle are deep violet, and they 

 later mature large ovoid capsules, very dissimilar to the long beans of the 

 catalpa. 



LYON'S TURTLE=HEAD. 



Clielbne Lybni. 



FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Figivort. Rose-purple. Scentless. Georgia northward to I'irginia. J uly-Octobcr. 



Flowers: growing closely in a terminal, dense spike. Calyx: with five-paitcd, 

 ovate sepals, ciliate and rounded at their apices, the underlying bracts fringed 

 with white hairs. Corolla: two-lipped; inflated; slightly oj^en at the apex; the 

 upper lip concave, the lower one three-cleft, with the central division appearing 

 like a small tongue ; bearded in the throat. Stat7iens : five, four fertile and one 

 sterile ; filaments, hairy and united into a mass by their woolly anthers. Pistil : one. 

 Leaves : opposite ; with slender petioles ; oval or long ovate, pointed at the apex 

 and pointed, subcordate or narrowed at the base ; serrate ; thin. Stem : erect ; 

 one to three feet high, simple or branched ; glabrous. 



Through the mountainous region of western North Carolina and in the 

 late season when this genus of plants throws out its strange bloom, I have 

 found the flowers of this species showing almost every tint of colour from a 

 pure waxy white to a deep pink-purple. It grows in wet, soggy places, 

 often by little brooks and is ever with its small tortoise-like corollas a 

 strange-looking individual. From the anthers, even when but slightly 

 touched, the pollen is showered abundantly. 



This species of Chelone was named for Mr. Lyon, a botanist who 

 travelled through the mountains and died at Asheville, N. C. In this region 

 where most luxuriantly much that is beautiful of northern and southern 

 flora grows side by side he collected many rare specimens and sent them to 

 the old country. It was indeed he who first brought to the notice of horti- 

 culturists the beautiful Pieris floribunda. 



C. glabra^ turtle-head, shell-flowcr, or balmony, is readily known from 



