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FIGWORT FAMILY. Scrophulariaceae. 
FIGWORT FAMILY. Scrophulariaceae. 
A large family, widely distributed, most of them natives 
of temperate regions; chiefly herbs, with bitter juice, 
sometimes narcotic and poisonous; without stipules; the 
flowers usually irregular; the calyx usually with four or 
five divisions, sometimes split on the lower or upper side, 
or on both sides; the corolla with united petals, nearly 
regular or two-lipped, two of the lobes forming the upper 
lip, which is sometimes beaklike, and three lobes forming 
the lower lip; the stamens on the corolla and alternate with 
its lobes, two or four in number, two long and two short, 
and sometimes also a fifth stamen which often has no 
_ anther, the anthers two-celled; the ovary superior, usually 
two-celled, the style slender, the stigma sometimes forked; 
the fruit a pod, splitting from the top into two parts and 
usually containing many seeds. This is a curious and in- 
teresting family, its members very dissimilar in appearance, 
having expressed their individuality in many striking and 
even fantastic forms. 
There are several kinds of Maurandia, perennial herbs, 
climbing by their slender twisted leaf-stalks and occa- 
sicnally also by their flower-stalks; the leaves triangular- 
heartshaped or halberd-shaped, only the lower ones 
opposite; the flowers showy, purple, pink, or white; the 
corolla with two lines or plaits, instead of a palate, which 
are usually bearded. 
This is a beautiful trailing or climbing 
> me vine, smooth all over, with charming 
Mauréndia antir- : aes ; 
vhitmifora (AxtiP- foliage and twining stems, much like 
rhinum mauran- those of a Morning-glory, springing from 
dioides) a thickened, perennial root. The pretty 
Purple or pink = fowers are over an inch long, with a 
and yellow : . 
Sari purple or raspberry-pink corolla, with 
Ariz., New Mex. bright yellow blotches on the lower lip, 
forming an odd and striking combina- 
tion of color. This blooms all through the spring and 
summer and may be found growing in the bottom of the 
Grand Canyon, near the river, where its delicate prettiness 
is in strange contrast to the dark and forbidding rocks 
over which it clambers and clothes with a mantle of tender 
green. 
Snap-dragon Vine 
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