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high. Calyx 5-cleft, the divisions lanoe-awl-shaped. Corolla 

 with a long curved tube and S-lobed border, and 2 yellow- 

 bearded folds in the throat. Stigma 2-lipped.— Woods, in 

 early summer. 



2. A. faseieula'tum, Gray. Scaly stem erect, and rising 

 3 or 4 inches above the ground, mostly longer than the 

 crowded peduncles. — N.W.; parasitic on Artemisia, etc. 



Oedbe LX. SCROPHULARIA'CE.a;. (Pigwobt F.) 



Herbs distinguished by a 2-lipped or more or less irregular 

 corolla, stamens usually 4 ai;d didynamous, or only 2, (or 

 in Verbascum 5) and a 2-celled and usually many-seeded 

 ovary. Style 1 ; stigma entire or 2-lobed. 



Syuopsls of the Genera. 



* Corolla wheel-shaped^ and only slightly irregular. 



1. Verbas'ciiiu. Stamens (with anthers J 5. Flowers In a long ter- 

 minal spike. Corolla 5-parted, nearly regular. Filaments (or 

 some of them) woolly. 

 8. Terou'ica. Stamens only 2 \ iilaments long and slender. Corolla 

 mostly 4-parted, nearly or quite regular. Pod flattish. Flowers 

 solitary in the axils, or forming a terminal raceme or spike. 

 * * Corolla 2-lipped^ or tubular and irregular. 

 .*- Upper lip of the corolla embracing the lower in the bud, except occa- 

 sionally in JMlniiiliis. 



3. lina'ria. Corolla personate (Fig. 181, Parti.), with a longer spur 



beneath. Stamens 4. Flowers yellow, in a crowded raceme. 



4. Scropbnla'rla. Corolla tubular, somewhat inflated, 5-lobed ; the 4 



upper lobes erect, the lower one spreading. Stamens with anthers 

 4, the rudiment of a fifth in the form of a scale on the upper lip 

 of the corolla. Flowers small and dingy, forming a narrow ter- 

 minal panicle. Stem 4-sided. 

 ■ 5. CoIUns'la. Corolla 2-cleft, the short tube saccate on the upper fide ; 

 the middle lobe of the lower lip sac-like and enclosing the 4 

 declined stamens ; the upper lip 2-cleft, the lobes partly turned 

 backward. Fifth stamen rudimentary. Leaves opposite. Flow- 

 ers blue and white, in umbel-like clusters. 

 6. Cbelo'ne. Corolla inflated-tubular (Fig. 180, Part !.)._ Stamens 4, 

 with woolly filaments and anthers, and a fifth filament without 

 an anther. Flowers white, in a close terminal spike.. 



