| Lathrea.] LV, OROBANCHACEA, 328 
central and Russian Asia, except the extreme north. Not uncommon 
in England and Ireland, and extends into the central counties-of Scot- 
land, fl. early spring. 
LVI. SCROPHULARINEA. SCROPHULARIA FAMILY. 
Herbs, or in some exotic species shrubs, with oppesite or 
alternate leaves and no stipules. Calyx persisting round the 
fruit, usually with 5 teeth or segments, sometimes fewer. 
Corolla monopetalous, usually 2-lipped, but sometimes nearly 
regular, with 4, 5, or rarely more lobes, always overlapping 
one another in the bud. Stamens usually 2, or 4 in 2 pairs, 
very rarely 5, inserted in the tube of the corolla, Ovary and 
capsule divided into 2 cells, with several seeds in each cell. 
Style simple, usually ending in a 2-cleft stigma. 
A numerous family, widely diffused over the globe, from the Arctic 
- Circle to the tropics, although more abundant in temperate regions than 
in the extremes of heat or cold, and, generally speaking, well-marked 
by the 2-lipped or personate corolla, the stamens in pairs, and the several 
seeds in each cell of the capsule ; but there are some anomalous genera 
in which these characters are much modified, and two large and natural 
exotic families, the Bignonia and Acanthus families, are only to be accu- 
rately distinguished from Scrophularinec by an attentive study of minute 
characters. To the first of these belong the Bignonias and Tecomas of 
our hothouses, as well as the Catalpa, often planted in our gardens, and 
(if taken in.its most extended sense) the numerous hothouse Gesnerias, 
Gloxinias, Achimenes, &c. The Acanthacee include Justicias, Ruellias, 
and many modern hothouse genera, besides the European Acanthus, 
which gives its name to the family. 
Corolla rotate or concave, with a very short tube. 
Stamens 2. Corolla 4-cleft, never yellow . ; : : . 9. VERONICA. 
Stamens 4 or more. 
Tall, coarse, erect plants. Stamens 5, often woolly . . 1. VERBASCUM. 
Small or creeping plants. Stamens 4, glabrous. 
Glabrous, almost stemless plant, with radical leaves and 
minute subsessile flowers : : . 6. LIMOSELLA. 
Slender, creeping, hairy plant, with orbicular, alternate 
leaves, and axillary, stalked, minute flowers ; . 7. SIBTHORPIA. 
Corolla with a distinct tube. 
Tube of the corolla with a spear or protuberance at the base, 
the mouth closed by a projecting palate. 
Tube of the corolla spurred 
Tube of the corolla with a slight pr otuberance at the base . 
Tube of the corolla straight at ‘the base, the mouth open (ex- 
cept in M elampyrum). 
Calyx with 5 lobes or teeth, or 2 or 3 leafy jagged lobes. 
Corolla nearly globular, small, dingy, with 5 unequal 
lobes, not 2-lipped . ; 4, SCROPHULARIA. 
Corolla more than an inch long, with a broad tube, and 
flat, spreading lobes. 
Flowers red or white, ina long terminalraceme. Leaves 
alternate : : : : 
Flowers yellow, on axillar y ‘peduncles. Leaves opposite 
Corolla less than an inch long, the tube slender or short. 
. LINARIA. 
. ANTIRRHINUM. 
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. DIGITALIS. 
. MIMULUS. 
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