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1. A. MAJU3, L. Great Snap-dragon. 



res lanceolate, opposite; flowers in memos; sepals glandular-hairy, smooth, 

 lanceolate, acute. A showy garden flower, native of England. Sfem 1 to 2 feet 



. Fl'Aotrs large, rose-colored, the lower lip white and the mouth yellow, with 

 a gibbous prominence at the base beneath. There arc numerous varieties with 

 scarlet, scarlet and white, and white flowers. June, July. 



4: SCROPHULAMA, Tourn. Figwort. 



So called from its supposed virtues in curing scrvphtda. 



CALYX deeply 5-cleffc. Corolla, subglobose ; limb con j 

 traeted, with 2 short lips; upper lip 2-lobed, frequently with 

 a scale or abortive stamen at the summit of the tube. Cap- 

 sule 2-celled, 2-valved, many-seeded- — Rank herbs, wilh 

 mostly opposite, leaves, and small greenish-purple or lurid 

 jhwers, in loose cymes forming a terminal panicle. 



1. S. nodosa, L, Common F.igicort. 



Smooth, tall and branching; Stem 4-sided; leaves ovate, oblong or the upper 

 lanceolate, acute, cut-serrate, rounded or heart-shaped at the base. (S. lanceolata,. 

 Pursh, S. nodosa, Benth, in DC) 



Woods and hedges; common. June — Aug. Per. Stern .3 to 5 feet high. Leaves 

 3 to 7 i q h >s long. thin, often long-acuminate Flowers ovoid ]/i to b£ inch long, 

 purple-brown tinged with green. 



5. COLLINSIA, Nafe 



In honor of Z. Collins of Philadelphia, an accurate botanist, 



Calyx deeply 5-clcft. Corolla bilabiate, the orifice 

 closed; upper lip 2-cleft; loiccr 3-cleft, its middle lobe keeled 

 and sac-like, infolding the 4 declined stamens and style. 

 Capsule globose, many-seeded. — Slender branching an- 

 nuals, with opposite leaves, and handsome flowers in urn- 

 b el-like clusters, appearing, vjhorled in the axils of the up° 

 per haves. 



1. C. BICOBOK, Benth. Tico-colorcd Collinsia. 



Stem upright, somewhat branched; leaves ovate-lanceolate, remotely serrate or - 

 nearly entire, sessile with a somewhat heart-shaped base; flowers in axillary ra- 

 cemes. A pretty annual plant from the Rocky Mountains ; common in cultiva- 

 tion. Stem i to S inches high, with opposite leaves and branches. Leaves 1 to 2 

 inches long, % to % inch wide, broadest at the base. Flowers showy. ]4 to % 

 inch long. Corolla white, the lower lip a beautiful vickt-purplc. 



6. CHELOXE, Tourn. Snake-head. 



Or. Jcdone, a tortoise ; the corolla much resembling in shape the head of that 

 animal. 



Calyx 5-sepaled ; imbricated. Corolla inflated-tubular, 



