226 BIGNONIA FAMILY. 



U. bifldra. Chiefly S. : stems 4' - 6' long, bearing rootlet-like leaves and 

 many bladders, 1 - 3-flowered peduncles 2' - 4' high, and awl-shaped spur as 

 long as lower lip. 



* * * Simple and erect naked scape-like stem rooting in wet soil, with minute and 

 Jugacious grass-like leaves seldom seen : commonly no bladders : flowers 

 yeltow. 

 IT. subul&ta, from N. Jersey S. in wet sand ; very slender, 3' - 5' high, 

 with several very small slender-pedicelled flowers. 



U. comtlta. In bogs N. & S. ; 6'- 15' high, bearing 2-4 large flowers 

 crowded together on short pedicels, or S. with 4-12 more scattered and smaller 

 flowers. 



2. PINGUiCULA, BUTTERWORT. (Name from Latin, pinguis, fat. 

 Both names from the fatty or greasy-looking leaves, which in ours are more 

 or less clammy-pubescent.) 



« Corolla violet-purple ; the upper hp 2-lobed, lower 3-lobed. 



P. vulgdris, is scarce on wet rocks along our northern borders ; scape 2' 

 high ; upper lip of corolla short ; spur straightish and slender : fl. summer. 



P. pumila, in moist sand from Georgia S. & W., has rather large flower 

 on scape 2' -6' high, with blunt sac-like spur : fl. spring. 



P. el^tior, borders of ponds from N. Carolina S., has scapes near.l° high, 

 and large corolla (1' wide) with blunt spur : fl. summer. 



« * Corolla yellow, more bell-shaped, less distinctly 2-lipped, the 5 lobes often cleft. 

 P. Itltea. Wet pine barrens S. ; whole plant yellowish, with nodding 

 flower (1' or more wide) on scape 6'-12' high, in spring. 



73. BIGNONIACEJE, BIGNONIA FAMILY. 



Woody plants, or a few herbs, with more or less bilabiate flowers, 

 diandrous or didynamous stamens (often with rudiments of the 

 wanting ones), 2-lipped stigma,' free variously 1 - 4-celled ovary, 

 and fruit, usually a pod, containing many large mostly flat and 

 winged seeds, filled with the large embryo : no albumen. 



I. BIGNONIA FAMILY propek ; almost aU woody plants, 

 with opposite leaves, 1-2-celled pods, and flat winged seeds. (Les- 

 sons, p. 126, fig. 415, 416.) ♦ 



§ 1. ClinUiers, with compound leaves and i fertile stamens in two pairs. 

 * Barely woody or herbaceous : mary ami pod one-celled mth 2 parietal placentee. 



1. ECCEEMOCARPUS. Calyr 5-cleft, short. Corolla tubular, with 5 short and 



round recurved lobes. Pod short. Seeds winged all round. 



• * Woody-stemmed: ovary and pod 2-celled, but the placenta parietal : valves of pod 

 Jailing away from the partition : seeds with a broad thin mng. 



2. BIGNONIA. Calyx nearly truncate. Corolla tubular bell-shaped, 5-lobed. 



Pod flattened parallel with the valves and partition. CUmbing by leaf- 



^' '^^<P^^^^^ D^^'y^ 5-toothed. Corolla funnel-shaped, tubular, or bell-shaped, 

 Mobed. Pod flattish or flattened contrary to the partition, the edges of 

 which separate from the middle of the valves. Leaves in ours odd-pinnate, 

 the hardy species climb by rootlets. 



§ 2. Trees, with simple leaves and 2 or rarely i fertile stamens. 

 i. CATALPA. Calyx deeply 2-lipped. Corolla inflated bell-shaped, the 6-lobed 

 border more or less 2-lipped and wavy. Pod very long and slender, hanging; 

 the partition contrary to the valves. Narrow wings of the seed lacerate- 

 tringed. Hot corolla and stamens, see Lessons, p. 92, fig. 26S.) 



