
FIGWORT FAMILY. Scrophulariaceae. 
There are a good many kinds of Stemodia, widely dis- 
tributed, only two in the United States; the corolla blue or 
purplish and two-lipped; the stamens four, not protruding. 
This is a rather pretty plant, which is 
Stemodia i ; fag oi 
Stemadia quite effective when growing in quantities. 
durantifolia The stem is hairy and sticky, from a foot 
Blue to a foot and a half tall, with hairy leaves, 
Spring 
which have a few sharp teeth. The 
flowers are three-eighths of an inch long, 
with sticky-hairy calyxes and bright purplish-blue corollas, 
white and hairy in the throat. This has a slightly un- 
pleasant, aromatic smell and grows in moist spots, often in 
-mountain canyons near streams, as far east as Texas and 
also in the tropics. 
There are-many kinds of Linaria, most abundant in the 
Old World; herbs; the upper leaves alternate, the lower 
opposite, usually toothless; the corolla like Antirrhinum, 
but with a spur; the stamens four, not protruding. 
A slender plant, from six to eighteen 
Southwest, etc. 
Toad Flax 
Tks inches tall and smooth all over, with 
Canadénsis branching stems, dark green leaves, and 
Blue, lilac pretty little flowers, delicately scented, 
Spring, summer 
aed ie from a quarter to half an inch long, with 
bright purplish-blue or pale lilac corollas, 
veined with purple. This is found in dry soil across the 
continent and sometimes grows in such quantities around 
San Diego as to form blue patches in the landscape. 
There are many kinds of Veronica; ours are rather low 
herbs, though some are trees in the tropics, widely dis- 
tributed, living in meadows and moist places; flowers 
small, usually blue or white, never yellow; calyx with four 
divisions, rarely five; corolla wheel-shaped, with a very 
short tube and four, rarely five, lobes, the lower one 
narrower than the others; stamens two, sticking out at 
each side of the base of the upper lobe; anthers blunt, with ~ 
slender filaments; ovary two-celled, with a slender style 
and round-top stigma; capsule more or less flattened, two- 
lobed or heart-shaped, splitting open, containing few or 
many seeds. They were named in honor of St. Veronica. 
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