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3. THUNBERGIA, Linn. 



Iahotior of Charles rdcr Thunberg, Professor of Botany at the University of I'psal. 



Calyx .double, 5-clcft, with 2 bracts. Corolla bell- 

 shaped, with an inflated tube-, and 5-lobed limb; lobes equal. 

 Stigma 2-lobed. Capsule globose, beaked, 2-celled. — 

 Mostly climbing herbs, with showy axlilhry flowers; 



1. T. alata, L. Black-eyed Susan. 



S'cm twining; leaves triangularly-cordate, sinuately toothed, 5-ncrved ; pdio'*s 

 winged. July. Native of the East Indies. Flowers 1 to \\.\ inch broad^pale, 

 huff or orange, with adoop-purplc throat. ' 



Ohdeh 71. SOROffKffT. JKfh (mWF--F$v?ort Family. 



Ctujly herbs, wi^h didynamous, diandrdus. or very rarely 5 stamens inserted oi% 

 the tube of the 2 lipped or more orlessirret/rdeer corolla. Caltx of 5 more or less 

 united sepals, persistant. Ovary 2-ceIled, v;ith a single style. Fruit a 2-celled and 

 usually many-seoded capsule, with the placontoe in the axis. 



Sub-order i. ANTIRRHIXIDE.E. The Snai>dragon 

 Family. 



C'pper lip nf the corolla covering ths Jolts of the loicer. in th& bud. Chpsule usucul} 

 septiculal. - 



1. VERB ASCUtf, Linn. Mullein. 



Tho ancient Latin nanio, altered from Bdrlniscum. 



Calyx 5-partcd. Corolla c-lcbed, open or concave, ro* 

 bte, the lobes nearly equal rounded: Stamens 5, perfect, 

 often hairy,- the anterior longer. Style flattened at the apex. 

 Capsule ovoid or globose, many-seeded. — Tall biennial 

 herbs, usually tcoollj/, with alternate leaves, and ephemeral 

 Ji')iccrs in terminal spikes or racemes. 



1. V. THABSUS, L., Cofnnzon Mullet 'n',- 



Densely woolly throughout; stem simple tar) and stout ;• kat** or ata oblong," de 

 current: fowers in a prolonged dense cylindrical spike; lower stanuns usually 

 btardlcs?. 



Fields and roadsides; Tory comm9n. Introduced from Europe. June. Stem, 3 

 to-6 fbet high, angular, winged. Leaves 6 to 12 inches long. Flowers yellow u: a 

 long dense cylindric spike. 



2/ Yi Bl ATT ARIA, L. Moth Mullein. 



Green and .nearly smooth; leaves cbiong > clasping, crcnatc-serrate ; the radioed 

 ma petioled > oblong, doubly Berrate, sometime* lyre shaped ; raceme long and 

 loose ; fdaments all bearded. 



Roadsides, -common; Introduced from Europe. June. July. Stem 2 fc*>t high, 

 ftnjfldd. Leaves acute, eerrate or -toothed. Flowers yellow ur white, with a pu»- 



