508 SCROPHULARIACE.E scrophularia 



CHELONE 



lobes longer than the tube, acute, minutely serrulate : corolla rotate, 3-4 

 lines broad, much exceeding the calyx, blue and white, the three lobes of 

 the lower lip obovate and nearly alike, smaller than those of the 2-cleft 

 upper lip : ovules and seeds 3 or 4 in each cell. In copses, eastern Wash- 

 ington to Idaho and Oregon. 



6 SCROPHULARIA Tourn. L. Sp. 619. 



Coarse perennial herbs, some exotic species shrubby, with most- 

 ly opposite leaves and small purple, greenish or yellow flowers in 

 terminal panicled cymes. Calyx 5-parted or 5-cleft, the lobes 

 mostly obtuse, imbricated in the bud. Corolla irregular, the 

 tube globose to oblong, not gibbous nor spurred at the base ; the 

 limb 5-lobed, four of them erect, the fifth or anterior one shortest 

 and reflexed or spreading: the upper pair largest and external in 

 the bud. Anthers 5, four of them antheriferous and declined, 

 mostly included: cells of the anthers confluent at the apex into 

 one i^the fifth stamen reduced to a scale on the upper side of the 

 corolla-tube. Style filiform, with capitate or truncate stigma. 

 Capsule ovoid septicidally dehiscent. Seeds numerous, rugose, 

 not winged. 



S. Californica Cham. Linn, ii, 585. Minutely puberulent and the 

 inflorescence glandular : stems stout, 2-4 feet high simple : leaves oblong- 

 ovate with truncate or cordate base and acute or acuminate apex, or the 

 upper narrowly deltoid, coarsely doubly serrate, or sometimes laciniate- 

 incised, 2-4 inches long, the lower pnes smaller and sometimes with a pair 

 of detached lobelets near the summit of the petiole : thyrsus very loose and 

 often few-flowered, mainly naked : pedicels slender, 8-20 lines long : calyx 

 cleft nearly to the base, the ovate lobes 1-2 lines long, corolla greenish- 

 purple, its ovoid tube 3-4 lines long, the limb short : rudiment of the fifth 

 stamen spatulate or cuneiform either roundish or acutish at base : capsule 

 ovoid 3-4 lines in diameter. Moist grounds. Siskiyou Mountains of Oregon 

 to California and Nevada 



S. occidentals Bicknell Bull. Torr. Bot Club xxiii, 315. S. nodosa 

 var. occidentalis Mydb. More or less soft-pubescent and glandular : stems 

 stout, 3-5 feet high: leaves ovate or slightly cordate at base, acute or acu- 

 minate, 2-8 inches long, doubly and sharply serrate or incised, often with 

 fascicles of smaller leaves in their axils: thyrsus with short branches: 

 flowers numerous: calyx-segments rounded-elliptical, obtuse, slightly mar- 

 gined: sterile filament very broad, reniform, stipitate. In alluvial soil, 

 Oregon and Washington to Dakota. 



S. Marylandica L. Sp. 619 ?. Glabrous below, somewhat glandular- 

 puberulent above: stems slender, erect, 3-10 feet high, usually with widely 

 spreading branches: leaves membranaceous, slender-petioled, ovate or 

 ovate-lanceolate, acuminate at the apex, sharply serrate, narrowed trun- 

 cate or subcordate at base, 3-12 inches long : flowers greenish-purple, 3-4 

 lines long, very numerous in the nearly leafless thyrsus: pedicels slender, 

 ascending, 4-12 lines long: calyx-lobes broadly ovate, obtuse, about the 

 length of the tube : corolla green and dull outside, brownish-purple and 

 shining within, little contracted at the throat, the 2 lateral lobes slightly 

 spreading; the upper lip erect, its lobes short and rounded : sterile filament 

 dull purple: capsule subglobose with a slender tip. In woods and thickets, 

 Oregon and Washington to the Eastern States. 



7 CHELONE L. Sp. 611. (1753.) 



Perennial herbs with opposite leaves and large white red or 



