FIGWOBT FAMILY. 229 



1. EPIPHiiGUS, BEECH -DEOPS, CANCER -ROOT. (Name in 

 Greek means on the Beech : the plant chiefly found parasitic on the roots of 

 that tree.) One species, 



E. Virginiana. Common, about 1° high, with purplisli flowers J' or more 

 long, in late summer and autumn. 



2. CONOPHOLIS, SQUAW-ROOT, CANCER-ROOT. (The name 

 is Greek for cone-scale, the plant having the aspect of a slender fir-cone when 

 old.) One species. 



C. Americtoa. Not widely common, in oak woods, forming clusters 

 among fallen leaves, 3' - 6' long, as thick as the thumb, yellowish : fl. early 

 summer. ' 



3. APHYLLON, NAKED BROOM-RAPE or ONE-FLOWERED 

 CANCER-ROOT. {Same in Graek. mesnas without leaves.) El. spring and 

 early summer. 



* A. uniflbrum. Open woods or thickets : slightly clammy-pubescent, with 

 _?-3 scapes (3' -5' high) from a subterranean scaly base, and lance-awl-shaped 

 calyx-lobes half the length of the violet-purplish corolla. 



A. fascicul^tum, the other species, occurs only from- Northern Michigan 

 W. ; has scapes from a scaly base rising out of the ground, and short triangular 

 calyx-lobes. 



76. SCROPHULARIACE^, FIGWORT FAMILY. 



Known on the whole by the 2-lipped or at least more or less 

 irregular monopetalous corolla,. 2 or 4 didjnamous stamens, single 

 style, entire or 2-lobed stigma, and 2-celled ovary and pod contain- 

 ing several or many seeds on the placentae in the axis ; these with 

 a small embryo in copious albumen. But some are few-seeded, a 

 few have the corolla almost regular, and one or two have 5 stamen.', 

 either complete or incomplete. A large family, chiefly herbs, some 

 shrubby, and one species is a small tree. 



§ 1. Intermediate between this family and the Nightshade Family ; the fiower^, ter- 

 minal or lateral., never realty from the axils of the leaves or bracts ; the 

 corolla hardly if at all sensibly 24ipped^ sometimes almost regular., the lobes 

 plaited in the bud ; iiigma enlarged, often i-lip/iedi All garden exotics. 



• With 4 slamem only, included toiihin the narrow throat of the salver-shaped corolla : 

 leaves allemate and'cntire. 



1. BEUNFELSIA. Shrubs, with glossy oblong leaves. Corolla, with 5 rounded 



and about equal lobes, two of them, however, a little more imited. Anthers 

 all alike. Fruit fleshy. 



2. BEOWALLIA. Herbs, mostly a little pubescent and clammy. CoroU?, with 



somewhat unequally 5-lobed border, the lobes with a broad notch. Two of 

 the anthers shorter and only 1-oeU.ed. Fruit a dry pod. 

 « « With 4 anther-bearing stamens and a sterile filament : corolla with yiide throat. 

 8. SALPIGLOSSIS. Herbs, with cut-toothed or pinnatifld alternate leaves. 

 Corolla funnel-form, with very open , throat, a little oblique or irregular, the 

 lobes all with a deep notch at the end. Pod oblong. 



§2. Corolla imbricated and not plaited in the bud; the smaller' lip: S-parted; the 



larger h-cleft, ami the lobes again 2-oleft or_deeply notched. Flowers terminal, 



panicled. 



i. SCHIZANTHUS. Calyx 5-parted, the divisions narrow. Corolla with tube 



shorter than the divisions, which appear as if cut up, the middle lobe of the 



smaller lip, towards whi(;h the stamens and style are inclined, more or less 



hooded or sac-like. Stamens with,good anthers 2, the 2 or 3 others small and 



abortive, Stigma minute. Leavef aitemate,-pinuate, or pinuately cut. 



