Order 86.— SOROPHULARIACBjE. 525 



1 I. gratiololdea Benth. Glabroua, ascending, rmuih branched; Ivs. ovate or 

 ■ oblong, obtusish, subdentato, lower attenuated to a petiole; cor. erect, twice 



longer than the calyx, on bractless peduncles ; sterile fil. bearing the glabrous, 

 acute lobe below the middle. — D Can. and U. S. in wet places. A low, incon- 

 spicuous plant, 3 — 6 or 8' high. Leaves 5 — 8" long, sometimes mostly sessile, 

 commonly the lower distinctly petiolate. Corolla bluish-white, much exserted, 6" 

 long. Jl., Aug. — (Ii. dilatata and attenuata Muhl.) 



2 I. refricta Benth. Slender, smooth, erect; mostly siibradical, oval-oblong and 

 spatulate, cauline few, small and remote, lanoe-linear ; ped. filiform, subterminal, 

 few,- deflected after flowering ; cor. tube 4 times longer than the linear sepals. — !£ 

 Damp pme- woods, N. Car. to Ga. (Mettauer, near Macon). St. 6 to 10' high, 

 sparingly branched. Lower Ivs. 7 to 9" long, cauline 1 to 5". Fls. 5" long, 

 light blue. Jn. 



3 I. grandifldra Benth. Smooth, creeping, diffuse; Ivs. thick, orbicular, entire, 

 subolasping, veinless ; ped. very hairy ; sterile fil. 2 ; partly exserted, lobe-bear- 

 ing in the middle, thickened at the end. — if Ga. (between Savannah and Au- 

 gusta, Nutt.) in sandy swamps. Lvs. 3 to 4" diam. Ped. 1' long, cor. 6", violet 

 blue. 



19. ffllCRAN'THEMUM, Kicli. (Gr. jMicpog, small, avOog, flower ; such 

 is its character.) Calyx 4-toothed or cleft ; corolla upper lip shorter, 

 entire, lower trifid ; stamens 2 fertile, a glandular scale at the base of 

 each, sterile filament none ; style short, apex clavate or spatulate, en- 

 tire ; capsule 2-valved. — Q Slender, glabrous, creeping, with opposite 

 lvs. and minute flowers. 



§ CiUyx deeply cleft, segments longer th.in the nnifqnnl coroll.a lips No. 1 



§ Calyx mei'ely tuotiied, segments shorter than iho very uneqnat corolla lii)S No. 2 



1 M orbicul^tum Mx. Los. orbicular or roundish-obovate, obscurely 3-veined, 

 entire, contracted to a very short petiole; fls. solitary, axillary, much shorter than 

 the leaves and on pedicels shorter than the calyx. — ^N. Car. to Fla. and La., com- 

 mon, in mud or shallow water. Sts. diffuse, fiiform. Lvs. often crowded, 2 to 4'' 

 long, 2 to 3" wide. ]?ls. globulai-, less than 1" long, white. All summer. (M. 

 omarginatum BU.) 



2 M. micrdatha. Lvs. roundish, ovate, crowded, sessile, obscurely 3-veined ; J!s. 

 sessile, axillary, very minute. — Inundated banks of rivers, Delaware to the Ogee- 

 chee, probably not common. Plant a few inches long, branched. Hs. white, the 

 middle segm. of the lower lip largest and spreading. Sept., Oct. (Herpestis 

 micrantha Ell. Hemianthus micranthemoides Nutt.) 



20. AMPHIANTHUS, Torr. (Gr. diJ.(}>u, both or twain, av6og ; allu- 

 ding to its two-fold inflorescence.) Caly.x 5-parted ; corolla small, fun- 

 nel form, limb 4-lobed, lower lobe larger, stamens 2, included ; anthers 

 2-celled ; style lightly bifid, lobes acute ; capsule obcordate, compressed, 

 valves septiferous in the middle; seeds numerous. — (D Acaulescent, 

 minute, with fls. both sessile and on scapes. 



A. pusillus Torr. On wet rocks, Newton Co., Ga. (Leavenworth). A minute 

 herb, with the lvs. nearly radical, linear, obtuse, entire, 1 to 2" long. Ms. white, 

 hardly 1" long, some sessile among the leaves, others on simple, filiform pedun- 

 cles 1' long. Mar., Apr. 



21. LIMOSEL'LA, L. Mudwobt. (Lat. limus, mud ; its locality.) 

 Calyx 6-cleft ; corolla shortly campanulate, 5-cleft, equal ; stamens ap- 

 proximating in pairs ; capsule partly 2-celled, 2-valved, many-seeded. — 

 Minute aquatic herbs. Scape 1-flowered. 



L. tenuifolia Nutt. Acaulescent; lvs. linear, scarcely distinct from the petiole; 

 scape as long as the leaves ; cor. segments oval-oblong, shorter than the calyx. — 

 Q) B. L, Mass., N. T., Penn. A minute plant, an inch in height, growing on 

 the muddy banks of rivers. Leaves and flower-atalka radical Flowers very 

 small, blue and white. Aug. 



