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usually pink and white variegated with yellowish and some deeper purple spots 

 on the larger lobe. — There are one or two larger flowered but loss common 

 species. 



5. PAULOWNIA. (Named for a Russian Princess.) Only one species. 

 P. imperiWiS, of Japan, cult, for ornament, scarcely hardy fsir N. ; the 



hear^shaped very ample leaves resembling those of Cata!pa but much more 

 downy, flowers in large terminal panicle, in spring', the violet corolla I^'-2' 

 long. 



6. VEEBASCUM, MULLEIN. (Ancient Latin- name.) Natives of the 

 Old World, here weeds, often hybridizing ; fl. summer. ^ ® 



V, ThS.psUS, CoMMOK M. Fields : densely woolly, the tall simple stem 

 winged from the bases of the oblong leaves, bearing a long dense spike of yellow 

 (rarely white) flowers. 



V. Lyclmitis, Whitk M. Waste places, rather scarce : whitened with 

 thin powdery wooUiness, the stem not winged, ovate leaves greenish above, and 

 spikes of yellow or rarely white flowers panicled. 



v. Blatt&ria, Moth M. Roadsides : green and smoothish, 2° - 3° high, ' 

 slender, with ovate toothed or sometimes cut leaves, and loose raceme of yellow 

 or else wliite and purplish-tinged flowers. 



7. CELSIA. (Named for 0. Cefa'us, a Swedish Orientalist.) El. summer. 

 C. Crfetica, cult, for ornament from the Mediterranean region: 2° -3° 



high, rather hairy, or the raceme clammy, with lower leaves pinnatifid, upper 

 toothed and clasping at base, corolla orange-yellow with some purple (l'-2' 

 across), lower pair of filaments naked, the upper pair short and woolly- 

 bearded. @ 



8. ALOUSOA. (Named for .Afonso .Zanoni, a Spanish botanist.) Cult, as 

 annuals, from South America : fl. all summer. 



A. incisSBfblia (also called urtic-'ef6i.ia) : smoothish, branching, l°-2° 

 high, with lance-ovate or oblong sharply cut-toothed leaves, and orange-scarlet 

 corolla less than 1' wide : several vai-ieties. 



9. VERONICA, SPEEDWELL. (Name of doubtful derivation, perhaps 

 referring to St. Veronica.) Fl. summer. 



§ I. Shnibbi/j tender, very leafij species, from New Zealand, imth entire- and 

 glossy smootli and nearly sessile everrjreen leaves, all opposite, dense many- 

 flowered racemes from the axils, and acutish pods. 

 V. speeibsa, is smooth throughout, with obovate or oblong blunt or retuse 

 thick leaves, and very dense spike-like racemes of yioletrpurple flowers. 



V. salicif61ia, "has lanceolate acute leaves, and longer clammy-pubescent 

 ri'.-cmes of blue flowers. ' 



V. Lindleyana, has oblong-lanceolate pale leaves, and racemes of pale 

 lilac flowers. 



§ 2. Herbs, growing wild, or tJiose of ihejirst suhdivlsipn cultivated in gardens. 



» Spikes or dense spike-like racemes turminating the erect stem or branches and 

 often clustererl. "21 



v. spic&ta, and sometimes V. pasiculXta, or liybrids between them, are 

 cult, for ornament, from Eu. : 9' - 2° high, with opposite lanceolate toothed 

 leaves, lobes of mostly blue corolla much longer than the distinct tube, and pod 

 notched at the end. 



V. Virgtniaa, CuT.VER'a root. Wild in rich wood-; from Vermont W. 

 & S. ; remarkable for the tube of the sma'.l wliitish corolla longer than the 

 acutish lobes and much lonwr than the calvx ; simnle .stems 2° -6° high, bear- 

 ing whorls of lanceolate or lauce-ovate poiuijd tiuely serrate leaves ; spikes 

 dcnje and clustered. „ „ .., 



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