32 SPRING FLORA OF MANHATTAN. 



PHYSALIS, L. 



Corolla funnel form with a dark "eye," fruit a berry, enclosed in the 

 enlarged and papery calyx. Ours perennials with yellow flowers. 



P. lanceolata, Michx. 3-4 dm. high, hirsute. Leaves lanceolate, 

 nearly entire. Dry ground, common. 



P. longifolia, Nutt. Taller, glabrous. Leaves larger and often 

 sinuate toothed. Prairie, frequent. 



P. cinerascens, (Dunal). Low, villous. Leaves usually entire. 

 Sandy soil, frequent. 



P. Vivginiana, Mill. Diffusely branched; viscid with glandular hair&. 

 Leaves ovate, cordate, sinuate toothed. Sandy soil, common. 



59. SCROPHULARIACEAE. 



Flowers 2-lipped or oblique (nearly regular in Veronica). Stamens 

 4 or 2. Ov.iry 2-celled, many ovuled Fruit a capsule. Herbs, ours with 

 opposite leaves. 



Flowers small, nearly regular, in spikes Stamens 2 Veronica 



Flowers 2-lipped. Stamens 4. 



Yellow Mimulus 



Not yellow 



Large, white to pink or blue . Pentstemon 



Small, lurid within, green without . Scrophularia 



SCROPHULARIA, L. 



Corolla tube globular, lobes short, 4 upper erect, lower spreading. A 

 scale at summit of tube represents a fifth stamen. Flowers in a terminal 

 panicle . 



S. Marilandica, L. 1 m. higti or more, erect, smooth. Leaves ovate , 

 serrate. Low woods, common. 



PENTSTEMON, Soland. 



Corolla tubular below, inflated above. Sterile stamen nearly as 

 long as the others. Flowers showy in an elongated panicle. Erect 

 perennials. 



P. Cobcea, Nutt. Clammy-hairy. Leaves ovate or oblong, serrate. 

 Corolla white or pinkish, 4-5 cm. long. Rocky hills, not uncommon. 



P. grandiflorm, Nutt. Glabrous and glaucous. Upper leaves 

 rounded and clasping, radical obovate, all entire. Flowers bluish, 4-5. 

 cm. long. Sandy soil, not common. 



MIMULUS, L. 



Calyx 5 angled. Corolla tubular. Flowers axillary. 



M. Jamesii, Torr. & Gray. Creeping at base. Leaves rounded, 

 dentate. Flowers 2-3 cm. long. Ditches and springs, not common. 



VERONICA, L. 



Calyx 4-parted. Corolla rotate or salver-form. Capsule flat, notched 

 at apex. 



V. peregrina, L. Low annual with small, narrow leaves and white 

 flowers in an elongated, terminal spike. Low ground, common. 



