SCROPHULARIACEAE (FIGWORT FAMILY). 



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leaves narrow and entire; racemes of blue or purple flowers slender, 

 loose. Sandy ground. 



COLLINSIA 



Slender herbs, with opposite leaves, and parti-colored flowers 

 in umbel-like clusters, which appear whorled in the axils of the 

 upper leaves. Corolla 2-cleft, the short 

 tube saccate on the upper side, the middle 

 lobe of the lower lip saccate and inclosing C^t 



the declined stamens. Stamens 4, with a 

 gland-like rudiment of the fifth. 



C. verna. Blue-eyed Mary. Lower leaves 

 ovate, upper ovate-lanceolate, clasping by the 

 heart-shaped base, toothed; whorls about 6- 

 flowered, flowers long-peduncled ; corolla 

 blue and white, more than twice exceeding 

 the calyx. Moist grpund. April to June. 



SCROPHULARIA ^ ... . r,, . 



Lollvnsia verna, Blue-eyed 



Herbs, with mostly opposite leaves, and ^^^' 



small greenish-purple flowers in a loose terminal cluster. Corolla 

 inflated, more or less globular, with 4 erect lobes and one spread- 

 ing one. 



S. marilandica, Figwort, Perennial, with square 

 stem, glandular-puberulent in the pyramidal flower- 

 cluster; leaves ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acu- 

 minate, serrate ; capsule thin, subglobose, with short 

 conical summit. Rich woods. July to September. 



VERONICA 



Herbs, with opposite or whorled leaves. Co- 

 rolla wheel-shaped or salver-shaped, almost reg- 

 ular. Stamens 2, one on each side of the upper 

 , , . ., lobe of the corolla. Capsule flattened, obtuse 



Scrophularia marilan' , . 



dica, Figwort. or notched at apex. 



V. officinalis. Speedwell. Pubescent; stem prostrate; leaves short- 

 petioled, obovate-elliptical or wedge-oblong, obtuse, serrate; racemes 



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