FIGWORT FAMILY 
SCROPHULARICEE 
Tue Figwort family is a large group contain- 
ing a considerable variety of interesting wild 
flowers. These usually have the petals united 
WOOD BETONY 
together into a tube with two distinct lips at the 
outer end. There are two or four stamens and a 
two-celled ovary from which arises a single style 
that sometimes bears two stigmas. The ovaries 
develop into pods with a varying number of seeds. 
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