PLANTAGINACEAE (^PLANTAIN FAMILY) T43 



(he setaceous calyx-lobes; the throat short. — Dry ground, N. J. to Fla., w. to 

 Mich., Neb., and Tex. June-Sept. Var. parvifl6ra (Nees) Britton. Spar- 

 ingly hirsute-pubescent or glabrate ; leaves ovate-oblong, usually short-petioled, 

 larger ; tube of corolla little exceeding the hardly hirsute calyx. (Var. am- 

 higua Gray.) — Va. and Ky. to Ala. — Appearing as if a hybrid with the next. 



2. R. strdpens L. Glabrous or sparingly pubescent, 3-10 dm. high ; leaves 

 narrowed at base into a petiole, ovate, obovate, or mostly oblong, 0.7-1.6 dm. 

 long ; tube of the corolla (8-5 cm. long) little longer than the dilated portion, 

 slightly exceeding the lanceolate or linear calyx-lobes. — Rich soil, Pa. to Wise, 

 s. to Fla. and Tex. July-Sept. Var. cleistAntha Gray. Leaves commonly 

 narrower and oblong ; flowers for most of the season cleistogamous. (Var. 

 micrantha Britton.) — Common with the ordinary form. 



3. R. pedunculata Torr. Puberulent, slender, 3-8 dm. high, the branche.s 

 spreading; leaves ovate-oblong, 4-7 dm. long, short-petioled; flowers solitary 

 or 3, on slender peduncles (1.5-5 cm. long) with 2 leaf -like bracts at the tip ; 

 corolla 3-5 cm. long, the tube slightly exceeding the subulate-filiform calyx- 

 lobes. — Dry woods, Mo., and southw. 



3. DYSCHORiSTE Nees. 



Calyx deeply 5-cleft or -parted. Corolla funnel-form, with ample limb, con' 

 volute in bud. Anthers mucronate or sometimes aristate at base. Ovules a 

 single pair in each cell. Capsule oblong-linear. — Low branching perennials, 

 pubescent or hirsute, with few proportionally large axillary nearly sessile flowers 

 and blue corolla. (Name from Si/sx^pio-ros, hard to separate, referring to the 

 firmly coherent valves of the capsule.) Calophanks Don. 



1. D. oblongifblia (Michx.) Ktze. Stems usually erect and simple, 1.5-4 

 dm. high; leaves from narrowly oblong to oval, very obtuse, sessile, 1.5-3 cm. 

 iong ; corolla blue, sometimes purple-dotted or mottled, seldom 2.5 cm. long ; 

 calyx-lobes nearly distinct, filiform-setaceous, hirsute. (^Calophanes Don.) — 

 Pine barrens, s. Va. to Fla. 



PHRYMAcEAE (Lopseed Family) 



A perennial herb, with slender branching stems, and coarsely toothed ovate 

 leaves, the lower long-petioled ; the small opposite flowers in elongated and 

 slender terminal spikes, strictly reflexed in fruit. Corolla purplish or rose-color. 

 Calyx cylindrical, 2-lipped ; the upper lip of 3 bristle-awl-shaped teeth ; the 

 lower shorter, 2-toothed. Corolla 2-lipped ; upper lip notched ; the lower much 

 larger, 3-lobed. Stamens included. Style slender ; stigma 2-lobed. Fruit dry, 

 in the bottom of the calyx, oblong, 1-celled and 1-seeded. Seed orthotropous. 

 Cotyledons convolute round their axis. 



1. PHRtMA L. Lopseed 



A single species, with characters of the family. (Derivation of the name 

 unknown.) 



1. P. Leptostachya L. Plant 3--9 dm. high ; leaves 0.5-1.5 dm. long, thin ; 

 calyx strongly ribbed and closed in fruit, the long slender teeth hooked at the 

 tip. — Moist and open woods, N. B. and Que. to Man., and southw. July, Aug. 

 (E, Asia.) 



PLANTAGINACEAE (Plantain Family) 



Chiefly stemless herbs, with regular i-merous spiked flowers, the stamens 

 inserted on the tube of the dry and membranaceous veinless gamopetalous corolla, 

 alternate with its lobes. — Chiefly represented by the two following genera. 



