SCROPHULARIAGE^-FIGWORT FAMILY 



The Figworts are herbs with irregular, mostly two-lipped 

 flowers; stamens two to five, but usually four in two pairs, and 

 inserted on the corolla-tube. The ovary is two-celled, many- 

 seeded, with a single style and a two-lobed stigma. Many of the 

 flowers look like Labiates, but may always be distinguished by 

 the ovary which, in the entire Labiate family; is deeply four- 

 lobed. 



SNAPDRAGON. ANTIRRHINUM 



Antirrhinum majus. 

 Antirrhinum, Greek, like a snout; from the shape of the corolla. 



Perennial, but usually biennial under cultivation ; native to the regions 

 about the Mediterranean. Has escaped from gardens in the Atlantic 

 States. June to September.' 



Stems. — One to three feet high, branched. 



Leaves. — Alternate, oblong or lanceolate, entire, sometimes variegated. 

 Flowers. — Large, in variety of colors, borne in erect terminal racemes. 

 Calyx. — Five-parted. 



Corolla. — ^Tubular, saccate at base, closed at the throat by a projecting 

 palate; two-lipped with spreading, irregular lobes. 

 Stamens. — Four. 

 Ovary. — Two-celled; style one. 

 Capsule. — Many-seeded. 



The cultivated Snapdragon is an interesting plant that has 

 been improved and petted and coaxed and bullied until it has 

 become virtually one great flowering stalk thickly set with blos- 

 soms, whose dropsical bodies and swollen throats have little charm 



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