FIG WORT FAMILY. Scrophulariaccae. 



There are a good many kinds of Stemodia, widely dis- 

 tributed, only two in the United States; the corolla blue or 

 purplish and two-lipped; the stamens four, not protruding. 



This is a rather pretty plant, which is 

 Stemodia *.** 



Stemodia quite effective when growing in quantities. 



durantijolia The stem is hairy and sticky, from a foot 



Blue to a foot and a half tall, with hairy leaves, 



Spring which have a few sharp teeth. The 



Southwest, etc. _ , . . , f , . 



flowers are three-eighths of an inch long, 



with sticky-hairy calyxes and bright purplish-blue corollas, 

 white and hairy in the throat. This has a slightly un- 

 pleasant, aromatic smell and grows in moist spots, often in 

 mountain canyons near streams, as far east as Texas and 

 also in the tropics. 



There are many kinds of Linaria, most abundant in the 

 Old World; herbs; the upper leaves alternate, the lower 

 opposite, usually toothless; the corolla like Antirrhinum, 

 but with a spur; the stamens four, not protruding. 



A slender plant, from six to eighteen 

 Toad Flax . 



Linaria inches tall and smooth all over, with 



Canadensis branching stems, dark green leaves, and 



Blue, lilac pretty little flowers, delicately scented, 



summer f rom a quarter to half an inch long, with 

 bright purplish-blue or pale lilac corollas, 

 veined with purple. This is found in dry soil across the 

 continent and sometimes grows in such quantities around 

 San Diego as to form blue patches in the landscape. 



There are many kinds of Veronica; ours are rather low 

 herbs, though some are trees in the tropics, widely dis- 

 tributed, living in meadows and moist places; flowers 

 small, usually blue or white, never yellow; calyx with four 

 divisions, rarely five; corolla wheel-shaped, with a very 

 short tube and four, rarely five, lobes, the lower one 

 narrower than the others; stamens two, sticking out at 

 each side of the base of the upper lobe; anthers blunt, with 

 slender filaments; ovary two-celled, with a slender style 

 and round-top stigma; capsule more or less flattened, two- 

 lobed or heart-shaped, splitting open, containing few or 

 many seeds. They were named in honor of St. Veronica. 



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