170 PLANTS FROM PEITAIHO 



tiolunaceae. Potato Family. 



Solarium nigrum, L. — Gardens. — Law and branching; 



flowers white, drooping; berries black. — " Black 



Nightshade." 

 Lycium Chinese, Mill. — Waste places. — Shrubby, often 



spiny ; flowers yellow or purple; berry ovoid, red. — 



' ' Tea Tree " " Matrimony Vine. ' ' 

 Datura stramonium, L. — -Waste heaps. — Eank weed, 2 



ft.; flowers white 3 in. long. — "Thorn Apple' 



" Stramonium." 

 Scrophulariaceae. Figwort Family. 



Linaria vulgaris, Mill. — Sand flats — Erect, 10 in. ; 



smooth; flowers yellow; leaves linear. — "Toadflax " 

 Mazus stachidifolius, Maxim. — Banks.— Erect., 7Jn. ; 



flowers blue with two white, spotted streaks. 

 Limnophila sessiliflora, Blume. — Pond near Eagle 



Rock. — 2| in. ; flowers blue, leaves divided into 



narrow segments. 

 Yandellia Crustacea, Benth. Stream bed. — Sand 



flats. — Branching, 5 in. ; flowers white; leaves entire, 



smooth, sessile. 

 llehmannia glutinosa, Libosch.. — Banks and walls. — 



Low, brown — hispid, 9 in. ; flowers reddish-brown, 



1 in. lonj.— "Ti— Huang." 

 Veronica spuria, L. — Eocky banks. — Erect. 20 in. ; 



flowers light blue, small, on a long terminal raceme. 

 Veronica anagallis, L. — Watery places. — Succulent; 



flowers light blue on opposite axillary racemes. — 



' ' Water Speedwell. 

 Siphonostegia chinensis, Benth. — Open ground. — Erect, 



4 — 20 in. ; flowers yellow and brown | in. long; leaves 



pinnatifid. 

 Phtheirospermum chinense, Bge. — Banks. — Erect, 10 



in.; flowers pink ^ in., long; leaves pinnatifid. 

 Orobanchaceae. Broom-rape Family. 



Orobanche.... ? — Banks. — Erect, fleshy, 



browish, 6 in. ; flowers blue. — '■ Broom-rape." 

 Lentibulariaceae . Bladderwort Family. 



Utricularia fiexuosa, Vahl. — Submerged in ponds. — 



Flowers yellow; leaves many parted, bearing small 



bladder-like cells. 

 Verbanaceae. Verbena Family. 



Vitex incisa, Lam. — Lotus Hills. — Bush, 4 ft. ; flowers 



light blue odorous; leaves palmately divided. 

 Vitex ovata, Thunb. — Sandy shore. — Almost prostrate; 



flowers blue; leaves broadly ovate. 



