FIQWORT FAMILY. Scrophulariaceae. 



FIGWORT FAMILY. Scrophulariaceae. 



A large family, widely distributed, most of them natives 

 of temperate regions; chiefly herbs, with bitter juice 

 sometimes narcotic and poisonous; without stipules; the 

 flowers usually irregular; the calyx usually with four or 

 five divisions, sometimes split on the lower or upper side 

 or on both sides; the corolla with united petals, nearly 

 regular or two-lipped, two of the lobes forming the upper 

 lip, which is sometimes beaklike, and three lobes forming 

 the lower lip; the stamens on the corolla and alternate with 

 its lobes, two or four in number, two long and two short, 

 and sometimes also a fifth stamen which often has no 

 anther, the anthers two-celled; the ovary superior, usually 

 two- celled, the style slender, the stigma sometimes forked; 

 the fruit a pod, splitting from the top into two parts and 

 usually containing many seeds. This is a curious and in- 

 teresting family, its members very dissimilar in appearance, 

 having expressed their individuality in many striking and 

 even fantastic forms. 



There are several kinds of Maurandia, perennial herbs, 

 climbing by their slender twisted leaf-stalks and occa- 

 sionally also by their flower-stalks; the leaves triangular- 

 heartshaped or halberd-shaped, only the lower ones 

 opposite; the flowers showy, purple, pink, or white; tl 

 corolla with two lines or plaits, instead of a palate, whic 

 are usually bearded. 



This is a beautiful trailing or climbir 

 Snap-dragon Vine yine> smooth all overj with c h ar mir 

 Maurdndia antir- . . . . 



rhlniflora (Antir- folia g e and twining stems, much hi 

 rhinum mauran- those of a Morning-glory, springing fro 

 dioides) a thickened, perennial root. The pret 



Purple or pink flowers are over an inch l ong w j t h 

 and yellow 

 g p r i n g purple or raspberry-pink corolla, wi 



Ariz., New M ex. bright yellow blotches on the lower lip) 

 forming an odd and striking combina 

 tion of color. This blooms all through the spring anc 

 summer and may be found growing in the bottom of th< 

 Grand Canyon, near the river, where its delicate prettinesi 

 is in strange contrast to the dark and forbidding rock 

 over which it clambers and clothes with a mantle of tende 

 green. 



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