SCROPHULARIACE^. 15l 



high. CalyxS-cleffc, the divisions lanoe-awl-shaped. Corolla 

 with a long curved tube and 5-lol cd border, and 2 yellow- 

 bearded folds in the throat. Stigma 2-lipped. — Woods, in 

 early summer. 



2. A. faseieula'tum, Gray. Scaly stem erect, and rising 

 3 or 4 inches above the ground, mostly longer than the 

 crowded peduncles. — N."W.; parasitic on Artemisia, etc. 



Order LX. SCROPHULARIA'CE.ffi. (Fig wort F.) 



Herbs distinguished by a 2-lipped or more or less irregular 

 corolla, stamens usually 4 and didynamous, or only 2, (or 

 in Verbascum 5) and a 2-celIed and usually many-seeded 

 ovary. Style 1 ; stigma entire or 2-lobed. 



Synopsis of the etcnei-a. 



* Corolla wheel-shaped^ and only slightly irregular, 



,1. Vcrbiift'eiiiii. Stamevs (with anthers J 5. Flo^vel'3 in a long ter- 

 minal spiko. Corolla .'i-parted, nearly regular. Filament!? (or 

 some of them) woolly. , 



2. Verou'lea. Stamens only 2 ; filaments long and slender. Corolla 



mostly 4-parted, nearly or quite reguliir. Pod flattish. Flowers 

 .solitary in the axils, or forming a terminal raceme or spike. 

 , * * Corolla 2~lipped, or tubular and irregular. 

 -t- Upper lip oftlie c,orolla embracing the lower in the bud, except occa- 

 sionally in Mluinlus. 



3. Lliia'rin. Corolla personate (Fig. 181, Parti.), with a longer spur 



beneath. Stamens 4. Flowers yellow, in a crowded raceme. 

 4.. Scrophala'ria. Corolla tuhular, somewhat inflated, 5-lohed ; the 4 

 ■upper lobes erect, the lower one spreading. Stamens with anthers 

 4, the rudiment of a fifth in the form of a scale on the upper Up 

 of the corolla. Flowers small and dingy, forming a narrow ter- 

 minal panicle. Stem 4-sided. 



5. Collius'la. Corolla 2-cleft, the short tuhe saccate on the upper side ; 



the piiddle lobe of the lower lip sac-like and enclosing the 4 

 declined stamens ; the upper lip 2-cleft, the lobes partly turned 

 hacltward. Fifth stamen rudimentary. Leaves opposite. Flow- 

 ers blue and white, in umbel-like clusters. 



6. Clicln'iie. Corolla inflated-tubular (Fig. 180, Part I.). Stamens i, 



with woolly filaments and anthers, and a iifth filament without 

 an anther. Flowers white, in a close terminal spike. 



