820 FLORA, 



flowers yellow, or cream-color, 2.5 cm. broad or more, usually in a tomentose 

 spike-like raceme; pedicels clustered, shorter than the calyx; stamens as in V. 

 Thapsus. Eastern Mass. Adventive or fugitive from Europe. June-Aug. 



3. Verbascum Lychnitis L. White Mullen. (I. F. f. 3231.) Stem an- 

 gled, branched above, 6-14 dm. high, densely covered with a white nearly stellate 

 pubescence. Leaves oblong, ovate or oblong-lanceolate, crenate-dentate, 5— 17 cm. 

 long, the upper acute, sessile, the lower narrowed into margined petioles; flowers 

 in a large terminal panicle, racemose on its branches, white or cream-color, 

 10-12 mm. broad, nearly sessile; pilose hairs of the 3-sho-ter filaments white; capJ 

 sule about 4 mm. high. In fields and waste places, Ont. to N. J. and Penn. Re- 

 ported from Kans. Nat. from Europe. June-Sept. 



4. Verbascum Blattaria L. Moth Mullen. (I. F. f. 3232.) Stem 

 terete, usually simple, 6-18 dm. high. Leaves oblong, ovate or lanceolate, den- 

 tate, laciniate, or pinnatifid, acute or acuminate, the upper truncate or cordate- 

 clasping at the base, the basal ones seldom present at flowering time; raceme 

 3-6 dm. long, loose; pedicels spreading, 1-2.5 cm. long, bracted at the base; 

 corolla yellow or white, about 2.5 cm. broad, with brown marks on the back; fila- 

 ments all pilose with violet hairs; capsule depressed-globose, 6 mm. in diameter. 

 In fields and waste places, Quebec to Fla., Minn, and Kans. Nat. from Europe. 

 June-Nov. 



2. CYMBAL ARIA Medic. 



Perennial creeping or spreading herbs, with long-petioled, mostly lobed, pal- 

 mately veined leaves, and solitary axillary white to violet flowers. Calyx 5-parted. 

 Corolla irregular, 2-lipped, short-spurred; upper lip 2-lobed, lower lip 3-lobed; 

 throat nearly or quite closed by the palate. Stamens 4, didynamous, ascending, 

 included, the filaments filiform. Style very slender. Capsule dehiscent by 2 ter. 

 minal 3-toothed pores. Seeds numerous, small. [From the Greek for cymbal.] 

 About 9 species, of the Old World. 



1. Cymbalaria Cymbalaria (L.) Wettst. Kenilworth or Coliseum Ivy. 

 (I. F. f. 3233.) Glabrous; stem trailing, often rooting at the nodes, 1-3 dm. long. 

 Leaves reniform-orbicular, 3-5-lobed, 0.6-2.5 cm - m diameter, the lobes broad 

 and obtuse; flowers blue or lilac, 8-10 mm. long; peduncles slender, recurved, 

 shorter than the petioles; calyx-segments lanceolate, acute; palate yellowish; cap- 

 sule globose; seeds rugose. Waste places and roadsides, adventive from Europe, 

 N. Y., N. J. and Penn., and in seaport ballast. June-Aug. 



3. Kl'CKXIA Dumort. 



[Elatinoides Wettst.] 



Mostly annual spreading or creeping herbs, with pinnately veined, short-peti- 

 oled leaves, and solitary axillary white yellow or variegated flowers. Calyx 5. 

 parted. Corolla irregular, spurred, 2-lipped, the throat closed by the palate. 

 Stamens 4, didynamous, included; filaments filiform. Capsule opening by 1 or 2 

 terminal slits, pores, or valves. Seeds ovoid, mostly rough or tubercled. Aboul 

 25 species, natives of the Old World. [In honor of Johann Kickx, professor ir 

 Ghent.] 



Leaves ovate-orbicular, cordate or rounded at the base. 1. E. spuria. 



Leaves triangular, mostly hastate. 2. E. Elatine. 



1. Kickxia spuria (L.) Dumort. Round-leaved Toad-flax. (I. F. f. 

 32^4.) Annual, pubescent; stems prostrate, 0.7-6 dm. long. Leaves ovate-orbicu- 

 lar' entire, or sometimes dentate, mucronulate, cordate or rounded at the base, 

 O.6-2.5 cm. in diameter; petioles 2-4 mm. long; flowers small ; peduncles filiform, 

 very pubescent, often much longer than the leaves; calyx-segments ovate, acute at 

 the apex, cordate or rounded at the base, one-half as long as the corolla; corolla 

 yellowish with a purple upper lip, the spur curved; capsule subglobose. In waste 

 places and ballast, N. Y. to N. Car. Adventive from Europe. June-Sept. [Elati- 

 noides spuria Wettst. ] 



2. Kickxia Elatine (L.) Dumort. Sharp-pointed Fluellin or Toad-plax. 

 (I. 'J i 3235.) Annual, pubescent; stems prostrate, 1. 5-6 dm. long. Leaves 



