FIGWORT FAMILY. Scrophular/acex. 



Toad-flax or 



Butter-and- 



Eggs 



Linaria 



vulgaris 



Yellow and 



orange 



July-October 



sions ; the spur curving and threadlike. 5-30 inches 

 high. Common in dry, sandy soil, from Me., south, and 

 local west to the Pacific coast. The name from Linum, 

 flax. 



A very common but.beautiful perennial 

 weed naturalized from Europe, with erect 

 smooth stem, and gray -green linear, stem- 

 less and toothless leaves growing alter- 

 nately but near together. The flowers are 

 about an inch long including the slender 

 spur, and two-lipped, the upper lip two- 

 lobed, light yellow, the lower lip three- 

 lobed and pouch-shaped, tapering to the tip of the 

 slender spur, and furnished above with a protruding 

 gold-orange palate which nearly closes the throat of the 

 corolla ; the four stamens are tipped with ochre yellow 

 anthers ; the style is gi'eenish. The flowers are assisted 

 in the process of fertilization by bumblebees and butter- 

 flies ; among the latter, Colias philodice (yellow) and 

 Melitcea phaeton, the Baltimore (brown), are frequent 

 visitors. 1-3 feet high. In fields, pastures, and city 

 lots, everywhere. 



A smooth annual with erect stem and 

 light green linear leaves. The flowers 

 light purple or white, showy, solitary, and 

 with a sac-shaped, two-lipped corolla ; the 

 upper lip two-lobed, the lower three-lobed. 

 About 1 foot high. In fields and waste 

 places near dwellings, New Eng. and N. Y. Adventive 

 from Europe. 



A smooth perennial with a slender four- 

 sided, grooved stem and slender-stemmed, 

 ovate lance-shaped, toothed, light green 

 leaves. Flowers small, sac-shaped, and 

 clustered on long, nearly leafless branch- 

 lets; the two-lipped corolla green without, 

 and shiny brown-magenta within. 3-7 

 feet high. In thin woods and thickets, 

 south to N. Car. and Tenn., and west to 



Small Snap- 

 dragon 



Antirrhinum 

 Orontium 

 Light purple 

 June-August 



Figwort 

 Scrophularia 

 nodosa, var. 

 Marilandica 

 Green- 

 magenta 

 July- 

 September 



from N. Y. 

 Kan. 



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