822 FLORA. 



5. ANTIRRHINUM L. 



Herbs, with alternate leaves, or the lower and those of sterile shoots opposite, 

 and red purple yellow or white flowers, in terminal racemes, or solitary in the 

 upper axils. Calyx 5-parted, the segments imbricated. Corolla irregular, gib- 

 bous, or saccate, but not spurred, 2-lipped, the upper lip erect, 2-lobed, the lower 

 spreading, 3-lobed, its base produced into a palate nearly or quite closing the 

 throat. Stamens 4, didynamous, included. Style filiform. Capsule opening by 

 chinks or pores below the summit. Seeds numerous, not winged. [Greek, nose- 

 like.] About 40 species, natives of Europe, Asia and western N. Am. Besides the 

 following some 18 others inhabit the western U. S. 

 Flowers 2.5-4 cm. long; calyx-segments ovate, much shorter than the corolla. 



1. A. ma jus. 

 Flowers 1-1.5 cm. long; calyx-segments linear, as long as the corolla. 2. A. Orontium. 



1. Antirrhinum majus L. Great Snapdragon. Lion's-mouth. (I. F. f. 

 3240.) Perennial, usually glandular-pubescent above, 3-9 dm. high. Leaves 

 lanceolate, linear or oblong-lanceolate, entire, short-petioled, acute, glabrous, 

 2-8 cm. long; flowers racemose, purplish-red (of a variety of colors in cultivated 

 forms); pedicels rather stout, erect in fruit; calyx-segments obtuse, 4-6 mm. long; 

 capsule obliquely ovoid, 8-10 mm. high, opening by 2 pores just below the summit 

 or at length apically 2-valved, much longer than the calyx. In waste places, es- 

 caped from gardens in the Atlantic States. Adventive from Europe. June-Sept. 



2. Antirrhinum Orontium L. Lesser Snapdragon. (I. F. f. 3241.) An- 

 nual, about 3 dm. high. Leaves narrowly linear, or the lower linear-spatulate, 

 almost sessile, narrowed at both ends, 2-5 cm. long; flowers solitary in the upper 

 axils, purple, I-I.5 cm. long; peduncles shorter than the flowers; calyx-segments 

 linear, unequal, as long as the corolla, elongated in fruit so as much to exceed the 

 pubescent capsule. In fields and waste places, Ont., N. Eng. and N. Y. Also on 

 Vancouver Island. Adventive from Europe. June-Aug. 



6. SCROPHULARIA L. (See Appendix.) 



Perennial strong-smelling herbs, some exotic species shrubby, with mostly op- 

 posite leaves, and small purple greenish or yellow proterogynous flowers, in termi- 

 nal panicled cymes or thyrses. Calyx 5 -parted or 5 -cleft, the segments or lobes 

 mostly obtuse. Corolla irregular, the tube globose to oblong, not gibbous nor 

 spurred, the limb 5-lobed, the 2 upper lobes longer, erect, the lateral ones ascend- 

 ing, the lower spreading or reflexed. Stamens 5, 4 of them anther-bearing and 

 didynamous, declined; their anther-sacs confluent into one, the fifth sterile, reduced 

 to a scale on the roof of the corolla-tube. Style filiform; stigma capitate or trun- 

 cate. Capsule ovoid, septicidally dehiscent. Seeds rugose, not winged. [Named 

 for its repute as a remedy for scrofula.] About 120 species, of the northern hemis- 

 phere. Besides the following, 2 or 3 others occur in the western U. S. 



Corolla dull outside; sterile stamen deep purple. 1. S. Marylandica. 



Corolla shining outside; sterile stamen greenish yellow. 2. S. leporclla. 



i. Scrophularia Marylandica L. Maryland Figwort, Heal-all or 

 PlLEWORT. (I. F. f. 3242.) Glabrous below, somewhat glandular-pubescent 

 above; stem slender, 4-angled with grooved sides, 1-3 m. high. Leaves mem- 

 branous, slender-petioled, usually puberulent beneath, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, sharply serrate, 0.7-3 ( * m - l ()n ^ r ; flowers greenish purple, 6-8 mm. 

 long, numerous in the nearly leafless thyrses; bractlets mostly opposite; pedicels 

 8-25 mm. long; calyx-lobes broadly ovate, obtuse, about the length of the tube; 

 corolla brownish purple and shining within, little contracted at the throat, the two 

 lateral lobes slightly spreading, the upper lip erect, its lobes short, rounded; cap- 

 sule subglobose, with a slender tip. In woods and thickets. Me. to S. Dak.. N. 

 Car., Ga. and Tenn. July— Sept. 



2. Scrophularia leporella Bickncll. Hare Figwort. (I. F. f. 3243.) Stem 



viscid-glandular above, sharpie 4-angled with flat sides. 1-2.8 m. tall. Leaves 



short-petioled, ovate to Lanceolate, acuminate, mostly narrowed at the base, gla- 



pn both sides when mature, usually inciscd-dentate. S -5 cm, long; flowers 



8-10 mm. long, in elongated narrow thyrses; bractlets mostly alternate; calyx- 



