322 FIGWORT FAMILY. 



28. PEDICTTLARI8. Herbs with simple stems, chiefly pinnatifld leaves and spiked 



flowers. Corolla tubular, with a strongly arched or flattened helmet-shaped upper 

 lip, and the lower erect at base, 2-crested above and 8-lobed. Seeds several in each 

 cell. 



29. MELAMPTRUM. Low herbs with branching stems, opposite leaves, and flowers in 



their axils, or the upper crowded in a bracted spike. Calyx bell-shaped, 4-cleft, the 

 lobes taper-pointed. Corolla tubular, enlarging above, with the lower lip nearly 

 equaling the narrow upper one and its biconvex palate appressed to it, 3-lobed at the 

 summit. Cells of the anther minutely pointed at base. Pod oblique, with only 2 

 seeds in each cell. 



1. FAULOWNTA. (Named for Anna Paulowna, a Russian Princess.) 



P. imperialis^ Sieb. & Zucc. Cult, for ornament, from Japan and 

 China. Scarcely hardy far N. ; the heart-shaped very ample leaves 

 resembling those of Catalpa, but much more downy ; flowers in large 

 terminal panicles, in spring, the violet corolla l'-2' long. 



2. VERBASCUM, MULLEIN. (Ancient Latin name.) Natives of 

 the Old World, here weeds. TJ. @ 



V. Thapsus, Linn. COMMON M. Fields ; densely woolly, the tall 

 simple stem winged from the bases of the oblong leaves, bearing a long, 

 dense spike of yellow (rarely white) flowers. 



V. Lychnltis, Linn. WHITE M. Waste places, rather scarce ; whitened 

 with thin, powdery wooUiness, the stem not winged, ovate leaves greenish 

 above, and spikes of yellow or rarely white flowers panicled. 



V. Blattaria, Linn. MOTH M. Roadsides ; green and smoothish, 2-3 

 high, slender, with ovate toothed or sometimes cut leaves, and loose 

 raceme of yellow or white and purplish-tinged flowers. 



3. CELSIA. (Named for O. Celsius, a Swedish Orientalist.) Flowers 

 summer. 



C. Cretica, Linn, f . Cult, for ornament from the Mediterranean region ; 

 2-3 high, rather hairy, or the raceme clammy, with lower leaves pin- 

 natifid, upper toothed and clasping at base ; corolla orange-yellow with 

 some purple (l'-2' across) ; lower pair of filaments naked, the upper pair 

 short and woolly -bearded. @ 



4. ALONSOA. (Named for Alonzo Zanoni, a Spanish botanist.) 

 Cult, as annuals, from S. Arner. ; flowers all summer. Commonest 

 one is 



A. incisifd/ia, Ruiz & Pav. (also called A. URTic.EF6i.iA). Smoothish, 

 branching, l-2 high, with lance-ovate or oblong sharply cut-toothed 

 leaves, and orange-scarlet corolla less than 1' wide ; several varieties. 



5. VERONICA, SPEEDWELL. (Name of doubtful derivation, per- 

 haps referring to St. Veronica.) Flowers summer. 



Shrubby, tender, very leafy species from JVeir Zealand, with entire and 

 glossy smooth and nearly sessile evergreen leaves, all opposite, dense 

 many-flowered racemes from the axils, and acutish pods. 



V. speciosa, R. Cunn. Smooth throughout, with obovate or oblong 

 blunt or retuse thick leaves, and very dense spike-like racemes of violet- 

 purple flowers. 



V. salicifblia, Forst. Leaves lanceolate acute, and longer ; clammy- 

 pubescent racemes of blue flowers. 



