ORDER 86. FIG WORTH. 203 



h Handsome herbs, l-2f. high, with flowers blue and white. 



Innocence. COLLIN'SIA. 5 



k Leaves serr. Sts. square. Palate of lower lip prominent. Monkey-fl. MIM'ULUS. f 



k Leaves many-cleft into fine divisions. \V. Conobea. CONO'BEA. 



k Leaves entire. Corolla protracted into a spur behind. Toad-flax. LINA'RIA. 2 



Leaves entire. Cor. not spurred. Small, obscure weeds. W. M. S. HERPES'TIS. 



m Fls. yellow, in a terminal, one-sided spike. Yellow-rattle. RIUNAN'THUS. 



m Fls. white, small, in a term, one-sided spike. Mts. Eye-bright. ECPHRA'SIA. 



m Fls. yellowish, axil., or in a leafy, equal spike. Ooto-whtat. MELAM'PYRCM. 

 n Sterile filament shorter than the rest, smooth. $nake-had. CHKLO'NE. 7 



n Sterile filament long, projecting, bearded. Beard- tongue. PENTSTE'MON. 



n Sterile filament a scale on the brown corolla. Figwort. ScROPHOLA'Bifc. 



o Corolla purple, in a long, slender spike. Leaves lance-ovate. 



Blue-htarts. BCCHNE'RA. 



o Cor. pnrp. or rose- white, axillary. Lvs. narrow-lin., entire. GERAR'DIA. 8 



o Corolla yellow, and 5-lobed as well as the calyx p 



p Stamens scarcely longer than the tube of the corolla.... q 



p Stamens long-projecting, with very largo anthers. S. MACRANTITE'RA 



q Stamens quite unequal in length. Sepals very short. DASYS'TOMA. 9 



q Stamens about equal in length, anths. all perfect. Sep. long.W. SEYME'KIA. 



1. VERBAS'CUM. Mullein. 



Calyx 5-parted. Corolla rotate, 5-lobed, slightly irregular. Stamens 

 5, all perfect, filaments woolly, at least the three upper ones. Pod round- 

 ish egg-shaped, 2-valved, many -seeded. Mostly herbs. Flowers in 

 spikes, or panicles, or racemes. Leaves alternate. June-August. 

 \ V. Thap'sus. Common M. Tall, woolly. Leaves decurrent. Flowers spiked, 2 



filaments smooth. 

 2 V. Blatta'ria. Moth M. Branched, smooth. Leaves serrate. Flowers rucemed. 



Filaments violet-woolly. 

 5 V. Lych'nitis. White M. White-downy, branched. Leaves crenate. Flowere 



panicled. Filaments white-woolly. 



2. LINA'RIA. Toad-flax. 



Calyx 5-parted. Corolla personate with the throat closed by the prom- 

 ment palate, upper lip refloxed, lower 3-cleft, tube inflated and spurred 

 behind. Pod 2-celled, bursting below the top. Herbs with the lower 

 leaves generally opposite, the upper alternate. Flowers solitary, axillary, 

 often forming leafy racemes. June-September. 



1 L. vulga'ris. Jlutter and Eggs. Leaves lance-linear. 'Flowers large, yellow and 

 orange, in a close raceme. Erect. 



