WHITE GROUP 



Snapdragon 

 Antirrhinum Orontium. — Family, Figwort. Color, purple or white 

 (see p. 346). Calyx and corolla tubular, 5-parted, the corolla 

 with a plaited border. Stamens, 4. Leaves, long and narrow. 

 Flowers in axillary racemes. 



The corolla is a type of many members of this Family, 

 2-lipped, the lips meeting and closing the throat of the tube. 

 By pressing the thumb and finger on the sides of the flower 

 it may be made to open and shut like an animal's mouth. 

 Dry fields, dumping-grounds. Not common. 



A, ma/as. — Color, white, blue, or purple (see p. 346). Often 

 escaped from gardens. The parent of many cultivated varieties. 



Balmony. Snakehead. Turtlehead 



Cheldne glabra. — Family, Figwort. Color, white, often with a 

 pink or purplish tinge. Calyx, of 5 sepals. The mouth of the 

 inflated, tubular corolla is a little open, the upper lip being 

 swollen as if humpbacked. Looking into the throat, it is seen 

 to be woolly-bearded, having 4 stamens which have woolly 

 filaments and tiny heart-shaped anthers. A fifth but sterile 

 stamen is present. Leaves, opposite, sessile, or with short 

 petioles, broad below, narrower above, sharply serrate. In wet 

 places, as edges of swamps or banks of ponds or streams. July 

 to September. 



This plant grows often very high, usually 2 to 3 feet. Stem 

 and leaves smooth. Flowers occupy the ends of branches, 

 crowded together, the lower in blossom while the upper are 

 in bud. It takes a lively imagination to invest the innocent 

 corolla with reptile-like features. (See illustration, p. 126.) 



Mudwort 

 Limoselta aquatica, var. tenuifblia — Family, Figwort. Color, 

 white or a light crimson (see p. 291). Calyx and corolla bell- 

 shaped, 5-parted, with 4 stamens inserted on the corolla. Leaves, 

 like pine-needles, fleshy, very slight distinction between blade and 

 petiole. Flowers, single, on leafless stems. 



Plants rooted in mud, very small, spreading by stolons 

 which also root at intervals in the mud. Muddy banks of 

 rivers and streams, the leaves clustered at the root, around 

 the single -flowered peduncles. Near the coast as far south 

 as New Jersey. 



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