292 SCROPIIULARIACK.K. (fIGWOKT FAMILY.) 



* * Stems terete, succulent, creeping : fanes ovale or roundish, entire: exterior calyx- 



loins cordate or orate : jh (lunch s 2-l>ract(d at the apex. 



3. H. Monnieria, Kunth. Smooth; stems diffuse, creeping; leaves 

 fleshy, wedge-obovate, entire or obscurely crenate ; corolla bell-shaped, with the 

 rounded lobes nearly equal; peduncles as long as the flowers; exterior calyx- 

 lobes ovate. (II. cuneifolia, Pursh.) — Ditches and muddy hanks along die 

 Coast, Florida to North Carolina, and westward. -Tune -Sept. lj. — Stem 1° 

 -2° long. Leaves 1' long. Corolla white or pale blue. 



4. H. amplexicaulis, Pursh. Stem villous, ascending from a creeping 

 base; leaves smoothish, ovate, cordate and clasping, obtuse ; peduncles shorn r 



than the flowers; exterior calyx-lobes cordate ; base of the ovary surrounded by 

 a 12-toothed di>k. (H. rotundifolia, EU., not of Pursh.) — Pine-barren ponds, 

 Florida to North Carolina, and westward. July- Sept. 1J.- Flowering stems 

 6' -8' high. Leaves h' long, crowded. Flowers blue. Plant odorous. 



8. GRATIOLA, L. IIkdge-Hyssop. 



Calyx 5-parted, the lobes nearly equal, narrow. Corolla bilabiate, with the 



upper lip entire or emarginatc, the lower 3-eleft. Fertile stamens 2, included, 

 the anterior ones sterile or wanting. Stigma 2-lipped. Capsule 4-valvcd, many- 

 seeded. — Low perennial herbs, with opposite leaves, and solitary axillary white 

 or yellow flowers. Calyx mostly 2-hraeted. 



* Connective of the anthers dilated, the cells transverse : stems tender: flowers 



pedunclcd. 



-t- Sterile stamens minute or none. 



1. G. Virginiana, L. Stem branching from the hasc, glandular-pubes- 

 cent above; leaves lanceolate, acute, sparingly serrate, senile, the lower ones nar- 

 rowed at the base; peduncles slender, the upper ones longer than the leaves; 

 corolla white, with the yellowish tube twice as long as the calyx ; capsule ovate, 

 acute. — Muddy hanks and ditches, Florida to Mississippi, and northward. 

 April and May. — Stem G'-12' high. Leaves 1' long. Corolla 5" -6" long, 

 hairy within. 



2. G. Floridana, Nutt Stem simple or branched, smooth ; leaves lance- 

 olate or oblong, obtuse, entire or nearly so, narrowed at the base, sessile, the 

 lowest slightly pctioled ; peduncles filiform, longer than the leayes; lobes of the 

 corolla emarginate, white; the Blender yellowish tube three times as long as the 



calyx.— Muddy hanks of the Chipola River, Wed Florida. April. — Stem 



l°high. Leaves 1' long. Corolla 8" long. Capsule globose. 



•';. G. sphserocarpa, Ell. Smooth; stem thick, ascending, branching at 



the base; leaves oblong or lance-oblong, serrate above, narrowed and entire 



towards the base, sessile, the lowest mostly obovate ; peduncle- thick, shorter 

 than the leaves, sometimes shorter than the calyx ; corolla white, the tube twice 



;i- long :i- the ealvx ; cap-ule globose. — Springs and branches, Florida to 

 South Carolina, and westward. March-May. — Stein 4'- 12' high. Leaves 

 1' loi)L r . Corolla >,' long. 



