SCROPHULARIACEAE (FIGWORT FAMILY) 383 
flowering season of the second year of growth, dried with great care 
and be put up in close boxes, safe from moisture. 
Stems stout, erect, round or slightly angled 
near the top, leafy and downy-hairy, two to 
five feet high, appearing in the second year 
of growth. Leaves of the first year all 
basal, forming a dense rosette, spreading flat 
on the ground; long-ovate, rather thick, 
finely toothed, tapering to petioles ; the upper 
surface dull green and somewhat wrinkled, 
the under side softly hairy and netted with 
prominent veins; the later stem leaves are 
smaller, alternate and sessile or nearly so. 
Flowers in slender, terminal, one-sided ra- 
cemes, sometimes a foot in length; corolla a 
swollen pale purple tube, nearly two inches 
long, drooping on a short pedicel, five-lobed, 
the lower lobe finely white-hairy within, the 
throat crimson-spotted; stamens four, in 
two unequal pairs, included in the corolla. 
Capsule two-celled, ovoid, rather large, con- Fra. 267.—Purple 
taining many rough, brown seeds. (Fig. Foxglove (Digitalis pur- 
267.) purea). X 4. 
Means of control 
Deep hoe-cutting of base-leaves from the roots; close cutting of 
flower-stalks before the development of any seeds. 
COMMON SPEEDWELL 
Verénica officinalis, L. 
Other English names: Fluellin, Ground-hele, Paul’s Betony, Upland 
Speedwell. 
Native. Perennial. Propagates by seeds and by stolons. 
Time of bloom: May to August. 
Seed-time: July to October. ' 
Range: Nova Scotia to Ontario and Michigan, southward to the 
Carolinas and Tennessee. Also native to Europe and Asia. 
Habitat: Dry hillsides and open woods; pastures, lawns, and waste 
places. 
