VEEBASctTM SCROPHULARIACE^ 503 



24 Melampf ram Annual branching herbs with opposite leavea. 



Sekies I PsEUDOsoLANE^ B. & H. Gen. ii, 915. Leaves all 

 alternate. Inflorescence centripetal. Corolla hardly if at all bi- 

 labiate ; the two posterior lobes external in the bud. All five 

 stamens sometimes present and perfect. 



Tribe 1 Verhascese Benth. in DC. Prodr. x, 188. Corolla rotate 

 with hardly any tube. Anthers by confluence one-celled. 

 1 VERBASCUM L. Sp. 177. 1753. 



Biennial, or rg,rely perennial, mostly tall and erect herbs with 

 alternate leaves and rather large flowers in terminal spikes, ra- 

 cemes or panicles. Calyx deeply 5-cleft or 5-parted. Corolla ro- 

 tate, 5-lobed, the lobes a little unequal, the upper exterior at least 

 in the bud. Stamens 5, inserted on the base of the corolla, une- 

 qual, all antheriferous : cells of the^ anthers confluent into one. 

 Ovules numerous. Style dilated and flattened at the summit. 

 Capsule globose to oblong, septicidally 2-valved, many-seeded, 

 the valves usually 2-cleft at the apex Seeds not winged. 



V. Thapsus Ij. Pp. 177. (Great Mullibn). Densely woollv through- 

 out with branched hairs : stem stout, erect, simple or with a few erect 

 branches, 2-10 feet high: leaves thick, oblong acute, narrowed at the base, 

 dentate or denticulate, 4-12 inches long, the radical ones on margined pet- 

 ioles, the cauline sessile with decurrent base causing the stfm to appear 

 wing angled: flowers yellow, 8-12 lines broad, sessile, very numerous in 

 dense terminal spikes: stamens unequal, the 3 upper shorter with white- 

 hairy filaments and short anthers, the 2 lower glabrous or nearly so, with 

 larger anthers : capsule 3 4 lines high slightly longer than the calyx, many- 

 sedded. Roadsides and waste places, throughout Ncirtti America. Intro- 

 duced from Europe. 



V. Blattaria L. Sp. 178 (Moth Mcllien). Glabrous or sparingly 

 glandular-pubescent: stem strictly erect, simple, slender, terete, 2-0 feet 

 high: leaves oblong or ovate to lanceolate, dentate, laciniate or pinnatifld, 

 acute or acuminate, the lower and radical ones sessile or somewhat petiol- 

 ed4-12 inches long, seldom present at flowering time, the upper ones ^-2 

 inches long sessile by a truijcate or cordate-clasping base: flowers in long 

 loose racemes : pedicels spreading 8-12 lines long, bracted at the base : corol- 

 la yellow or white with brownish marks on the back, 10-12 lines broad: 

 filaments all pilose with violet hairs : capsule depressed globose 3 lines in 

 diameter, longer than the calyx. Infields and waste places throughout 

 the Dnited States and Canada. Naturalized from Europe. 



II Antirehinide^ Benth, in DC. Prodr. x, 188. Leaves 

 mostly opposite, at least the lower ones. Inflorescence when sim- 

 ple centripetal, when compounnd the peduncle cymosely few to 

 several-flowered. Uppier lip or lobes of the corolla external in the 

 bud, with a few and irregular exceptions. Fertile stamens very 

 seldom more than four. i 



Tribe 2 Antirrhinese Bhav. Monog. Antirrh. 18SS. Irtjlores- 

 eence simple and racemous, or the flowers solitary and axillary. Co- 

 rolla bilabiate and more or less tubular: the base of the tube gibbous 

 or saccate or spurred on the lower side, and the lower lip often with 



