F1QWORT FAMILY. Scrophulariace*. 



FIGWORT FAMILY. Scrophulariacece. 



'Commonly herbs with opposite or alternate leaves, and 

 perfect, irregular flowers with two sets of stamens, 2-5, 

 longer and shorter ones^ corolla two-lipped or nearly 

 regular. Fruit a two- celled and generally many-seeded 

 capsule. A large family of bitter-juiced plants ; some 

 are narcotic-poisonous. Cross-fertilized by moths, but- 

 terflies, and bees. 



A very common, picturesque, velvety- 

 i^Sucum leaved weed of rockv Pastures and road- 

 Thapsus sides, naturalized from Europe. The basal 



Yellow leaves at first in the form of a rosette, 



June- - large, ovate, thick- velvety, and white- 



September green The stem stout and erect, with a 

 few smaller, acute-pointed leaves ; the terminal flower- 

 spike cylindrical, woolly, and dotted with scattered light 

 yellow flowers ; corolla five-lobed, and anthers golden 

 yellow. Rarely the flowers are white. 2-6 feet high. 

 In barren fields and waste places, from Me., south, and 

 west to Minn, and Kan. 



A smaller species with smooth stem and 

 Verbascun* " tnin ' li & ht S reen ' glossy leaves, mostly ob- 

 Blattaria long with deeply cut, notched, and toothed 



Yellow, white margins ; the upper leaves lance-shaped 

 June- an( j clasping at the base. The flowers, 



September s i m il a r in shape to those of the preceding 

 species, are light yellow or white, tinged on the back 

 with lavender, and set on slender stalks ; the five sta- 

 mens are fringed with ruddy hairs, and the anthers are 

 deep orange. The slender flower-spike is 1-2 feet long, 

 and a trifle woolly. 2-5 feet high. In waysides, waste 

 places, and pastures. Me., south, west to Minn, and Kan. 

 Blue Toad flax An extremel y slender and smooth an- 

 Linaria nual or biennial species with few small, 



Canadensi* thickish, linear, light green leaves, tooth- 

 Lavender less, stemless, smooth, and shining. The 

 small pale violet or lavender flowers about 

 inch long, two-lipped, and spurred ^ the 

 lower lip large and three-lobed, with a white, convex, 

 two-ridged palate ; the upper lip with two acute divi- 

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