FIGWORT FAMILY 



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i. 5. aqudtica (Water Figwort). — A tall, herbaceous plant, 2 

 — 5 feet high, with a square stem with the angles winged ; leaves 

 smooth, oblong, cordate, blunt, crenate-serrate ; -flowers almost 

 globular, chocolate-brown, in close, many-flowered panicles, with 

 linear, blunt bracts.- — Sides of streams and ditches ; common. The 

 stems, though hollow and succulent when alive, when dead be- 

 come rigid and prove very troublesome to anglers, owing to their 

 lines becoming entangled in the withered capsules. — Fl. July — 

 September. Perennial. 



2. S. aldta (Shade 

 Figwort). — Resemb- 

 ling the last, but with 

 sharply serrate, acute 

 leaves, and flowers in 

 loose, few - flowered 

 panicles, with leaf- 

 like, lanceolate, acute 

 bracts. — Wet places ; 

 uncommon. — Fl. 

 August, September. 

 Perennial. 



3. S.noddsa (Knot- 

 ted Figwort). — An- 

 other similar, but 

 smaller species, with 

 a thick, fleshy, knotted 

 rhizome; stem 2 — 3 

 feet high, square, with 

 blunt angles ; leaves 

 smooth, ovate, acute, 

 doubly and acutely 

 serrate ; and -flowers 

 greenish - brown, in 

 loose panicles, with 

 small, lanceolate, 



acute bracts. — Moist bushy places ; common. 

 Perennial. 



4. S. Scoroddnia (Balm-leaved Figwort), with downy, wrinkled, 

 crenate leaves and leaf-like bracts, is found only in Cornwall, 

 Devon, Ireland, and the Channel Islands. — Fl. July, August. 

 Perennial. 



5.* 5. verndlis (Yellow Figwort). — A very distinct plant, about 

 2 feet high, with slightly 4-angled stem; broad, crenate, pale 

 green leaves and bright yellow flowers. — Waste places ; local. 



scrophulAria aquatica {Water Figwort). 



-Fl. June, July. 



