720 SCROPHULARIACEAE (FIGWORT FAMILY) 



H- -»- Flowers blue or purple. 

 •w- Corolla equaling or longer than the pedicels. 



3. L. canadensis (L.) Dumont. Slender, glabrous; flowering stems nearly 

 simple, 2-8 dm. high ; leaves flat, 2-4 mm. wide ; racemes slender, naked, loose .; 

 corolla 1 cm, or less long, sometimes wanting (in reduced and cleistogamous 

 flowers). — Sandy soil, N. B. and centr. Me., westw. and southw. 



++ ++ Corolla much shorter than the slender axillary pedicels. 



4. L. MINOR (L.) Desf. Low branched glandular annual, 1-3 dm. high ; 

 leaves spatulate-linear ; corolla 5-8 mm. long. — Ballast and made land, Atlantic 

 coast to Out. and Mich. (Adv. from Eu.) 



* * Annual., procumbent, much brayiched., icith broad petioled veiny alternate 

 leaves., and small purplish and yellow flowers from their axils. 



H- Pubescent. 



5. L. Elatine (L.) Mill, Leaves hastate or the lower ovate, much surpassed 

 by the filiform peduncles ; calyx-lobes lanceolate, acute ; corolla 0.5-1 cm. long, 

 including the subulate spur. {Elatinoides Wettst. ) — Sandy banks, shores and 

 waste places, Mass. to N. C. and Mo., rather rare. (Nat. from Eu.) 



6. L. SPURIA (L.) ]\nil. Like the preceding, but with roundish or cordate 

 leaves and ovate or cordate calyx-lobes. {Elatinoides Wettst.) — Occasional on 

 ballast or waste grounds. (Adv. from Eu.) 



-1- -1- Glabrous. 



7. L. CymbalXria (L,) Mill. (Kenil worth or Coliseum Ivy,) Leaves 

 reniform-orbicular, 5-9-lobed ; peduncles slender, becoming recurved in fruit ; 

 calyx-lobes lanceolate. ( Cymbalaria Wettst.) — Waste places and ballast ; also 

 cultivated. (Adv. from Eu.) 



3. ANTIRRHINUM [Tourn.] L. Snapdragon 



Calyx 5-parted. Corolla-tube saccate or gibbous in front, not spurred ; the 

 lower lip 3-lobed, spreading, developed at the base into a prominent palate, 

 which nearly or quite closes the throat ; upper lip erect, shortly 2-lobed. Sta- 

 mens 4, didynamous, included ; anther-cells distinct and parallel. — Ours herba- 

 ceous plants with lance-oblong to linear entire leaves and axillary or racemose 

 flowers. (Name from avri, in the sense of like, and pis, a snout, in reference 

 doubtless to the peculiar form of the corolla.) 



1. A. Orontium L. Slender usually branched annual, pubescent or smooth- 

 ish ; leaves linear ; calyx-lobes linear, exceeding the capsule ; corolla purple or 

 white, 1-1.6 cm. long. — Casual in fields, about dumping grounds, etc., rather 

 rare. (Adv. from Eu.) 



2. A. mIjus L, Perewm'aZ, glandular-pubescent and somewhat viscif? ; leaves 

 lance-oblong; calyx-lobes ovate or oblong, short; corolla crimson, white, or 

 variegated, 2-3 cm, long. — Commonly cultivated, and occasionally found as an 

 escape. (Introd. from Eu.) 



4. COLLINSIA Nutt. 



Calyx deeply 5-cleft, Corolla declined ; upper lip 2-cleft, its lobes partly 

 turned backward. Fifth stamen gland-like. Capsule 4-many-seeded. — Slen- 

 der annuals or biennials, with party-colored flowers in umbel-like clusters, 

 appearing whorled in the axils of the upper leaves, (Dedicated to Zaccheus 

 Collins, Philadelphian botanist, 1764-1831.) 



1. C. verna Nutt. (Blue-eyed Mary.) Slender, 1.5-6 dm. high; lower 

 leaves ovate, the upper ovate-lanceolate, clasping by the heart-shaped base, 

 toothed; whorls about Q-floioered ; flowers long-peduncled; corolla blue and 

 white, 1-1.6 cm. long, more than twice exceeding the calyx. —TAo'ist soil, Ont. 

 and N. Y. to la., and southw. Apr. -June. 



