238 57. SCROPHULARIACE^. 



globose ; limb minute, of 2 short lips, upper 2-lobed, lower 

 3-lobed. Often the rudiment of a fifth stamen. Caps, 

 opening by 2 valves with their margins inflexed, 2-celled. 



6. LiMOSBLLA. Cal. 5-cleft. Cor. 5-fid, bellshaped, equal. 

 Caps, globose, 2-valved, 1 -celled; placenta central, free or 

 connected with a short dissepiment below. 



7. Melampyrum. Cal. tubular, 4-toot'hei. Cor. ringent; 

 upper lip compressed laterally with reflexed margins ; lower 

 furrowed, 3-fid. Caps, oblong, obliquely acuminate, com- 

 y)ressed. Seeds 1 — 2 in each cell, smooth. 



[MiMULUs. Cal. prismatical, 5-toothed. Cor. ringent ; upper 

 lip folded back at the sides. Seeds many.] 



8. Pbdicularis. Cal. inflated, 5-toothed. Cor. ringent ; 

 upper lip compressed laterally ; lower plane, 3-lobed. Caps. 

 compressed, acute. Seeds many, angular. 



9. Rhinanthds. Cal. inflated, 4-toothed. Cor. ringent; 

 upper lip compressed laterally ; lower plane, 3-lobed. Caps. 

 compressed, obtuse. Seeds many, compressed, with an or- 

 bicular margin. — Alecterolophus (Hall.). 



10. Bartsia. Cal. bellshaped, A-iLdi. Cor. tubular, ringent. 

 Caps, pointed ; cells many-seeded. Seeds compressed at the 

 hilum and with winged ribs at the back (large). 



11. EoFRAGiA. Cal. tubular, 4-cleft. Cor. tubular, 2-lipped. 

 Caps, pointed ; cells many-seeded. Seeds slightly angular, 

 very minute, crenate-ribbed j hilum basal. 



12. Euphrasia. Cal. tubular or bellshaped,4-fid or 4-toothed. 

 Cor. tubular, 2-lipped. Caps, obtuse or emarginate ; cells 

 many-seeded. Seeds rather angular, longitudinally ribbed ; 

 hilum subapical. 



13. SiBTHORPlA. Cal. in 5 deep spreading segments. Cor. 

 rotate, irregularly 5-cleft. Caps, compressed, orbicular, 

 2-seeded, 2-valved. 



*** Stamens 2. 



14. Veronica. Cal. 4 — 5-parted. Cor. rotate, unequally 

 4-lobed, lower lobe the smallest. Caps, compressed, 2- 

 celled. 



1 . Verbascum Linn. Mullein. 



* Leaves strongly decurrent. 



1. V. Thapsus (L. ?) ; 1. ovate-oblong crenate densely woolly 

 on both sides all decurrent, st. simple, spike dense, pedicels 



