336 FLOWERS OF FIELD, HILL, AND SWAMP 



together. There are 5 to 15 leaflets, ovate or lance-shaped. 

 Time, May, June. 



Parts of the flower in fives. Calyx and corolla, bell-shaped, 

 the latter with short tube and open border. 



This dainty flower bears transplanting and thrives in our city 

 gardens, where I have made its acquaintance. It is scarcely 

 creeping, but lies down weakly. The flowers, about \ inch long, 

 occur in corymbs — a few only— nodding on stems. Range, in 

 woods from New York southward to Alabama. 



69. Beggar's-lice. Stickseed 



Echinospermum Virginicum. — Family, Borage. Color, pale 

 blue. Leaves, at the root round or heart-shaped, with peti- 

 oles ; those on the stem acute at base, rather long, coarse. 

 Time, summer. 



A rough, hairy plant, whose seeds are partly covered with 

 prickles, by which means they fasten into the wool of sheep 

 and are widely disseminated. Flowers insignificant, on short 

 pedicels in' loose panicles. Lobes of corolla spreading. 



70. Figwort 



Scrophularia nodosa (a reputed remedy for scrofula). — 

 Family, Figwort. Color, greenish or brownish purple. Leaves, 

 opposite, deeply serrate, ovate or oblong, rounded or heart- 

 shaped at base, pointed at apex. Time, summer. 



Calyx, deeply s-divided. Corolla, rounded, tubular, with 5 

 lobes, the lower spreading, the two upper longer than the rest 

 and erect. Stamens, 5, with anthers lying across the fila- 

 ments and running together into a ring. A rudiment of the 

 fifth stamen may be seen. Stem smooth, 4-sided, 3 or 4 feet 

 high, with small, insignificant flowers terminating the branches. 



This herb gives the name to a large and important family of 

 plants, and, curiously, has not the markedly 2 -lipped corolla 

 which distinguishes most of the figworts. 



