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tlie Tcnotted S., which it much resembles in habit and in flowers. The 

 angles of the stem project into nan-ow wings, there are no tubers at its 

 base, and the leaves are not so bi-oad, and more obtuse. Panicle long and 

 narrow. Lobes of the calyx siu*rounded by a scarious border, much more 

 conspicuous than in the Icnotted S. CoroUa of a dull purple. 



In wet places, along ditches and sides of streams, in Europe and Russian 

 Asia. Abundant in Britain. Fl. summer. It varies in the shape of the 

 scale or barren stamen under the upper Up of the corolla, in station, and in 

 the more or less acute teeth of the leaves, and two species have been gene- 

 rally distinguished : 5. Uhrharti, a more luxm-iant and leafy plant, with 

 the scale much broader than long, and the capsule nearly globular ; and 

 S. Salbisii, growing in drier situations, the leaves more pointed, the scale 

 often nearly orbicular, and the capsule more ovoid and pointed ; but these 

 differences in foliage and capsule do not always correspond with those of 

 the shape of the scale, wliich wUl often vary in different flowers of the same 

 plant. 



3. Balm-leaved Scrophularia. Scrophularia Scorodonia, Linn. 

 (Eng. Bot. t. 2209.) 



Very nearly allied to the water S. in all essential characters, and distin- 

 guished chiefly by its downy, wiinkled leaves, and by the panicle more leafy 

 at its base. It is also usually a rather smaller plant, and the angles of the 

 stem are never expanded into wings, and sometimes scarcely perceptible. 



A west European species, extending southwards to Madeira, and north- 

 wards to Jersey, the extreme south-west of England, and the south of Ire- 

 land. JPl. stimmer. 



4. Yello'w Scrophularia. Scrophularia vemalis, Linn. 

 (Eng. Bot. t. 567.) 



A hairy perennial, very different in aspect from the three preceding spe- 

 cies, and not near so coarse. Stems seldom 2 feet high ; the leaves nearly 

 orbicular, cordate at the base, coarsely toothed, and of a hght green colour. 

 Peduncles almost aU axUlary, bearing a small cyme of yellow flowers ; the 

 4 upper lobes of the coroUa nearly of equal size, without any scale or barren 

 stamen inside ; the lowest lobe rather larger. Stamens longer than the 

 tube of the corolla. 



On roadsides, and waste or stony places, in the hilly districts of Europe, 

 extending from France to the Caucasus. Occasionally found in England, 

 but in most cases supposed to have been introduced. Fl. spring. 



V. raiMxriiUS. mimulus. 



Herbs, with opposite leaves, and yeUow, purple, or pink flowers, growing 

 reingly on axillary peduncles. Cafyx tubular, with 5 prominent angles, and 

 5 short teeth. Corolla with a broad tube, and 5 flat lobes arranged in two 

 hps ; the upper one 2-lobed and sometimes erect ; the lower one spreading 

 and 3-lobed, the central lobe often notched. Stamens 4. Capsule opening 

 in 2 valves in the middle of the cells. 



An American genus, which, besides the species now naturahzed in Eu- 

 rope, comprises the Mitsk Mimulus and some others, occasionally cultivated 

 in our gardens. 



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