330 THE SCROPHULARIA FAMILY. — [ Linaria. 
7, &. spuria, Mill. (fig. 738). Round-leaved Linaria.—A very hairy 
annual, with slender, branching, prostrate stems 2 or 3 inches to a foot or 
more long. Leaves nearly sessile, broadly ovate or orbicular, Flowers 
solitary, on hairy peduncles, in the axils of the upper smaller leaves. 
Sepals ovate or broadly lanceolate. Corolla very small, yellowish, with a 
purple upper lip; the spur slender and recurved. Seeds warted, without 
wings. 
ie waste and stony places, in the Mediterranean region, and as a weed of 
cultivation in central Europe, but not extending so far north as LZ. Hlatine. 
In Britain, only in cultivated places, in southern and central England, and 
South Wales, 1. the whole season. 
8. L. Blatine, Desf. (fig. 739). Pointed Linaria.—A prostrate annual, 
with the stem and leaves hairy, but less so than in LZ. spuria, which this 
plant resembles in most respects ; the branches are, however, more slender, 
the leaves angular or hastate at the base, the peduncles much more slender, 
glabrous, and spreading at right anes) the sepals narrow-lanceolate, and 
the spur of the corolla straight. 
In open woods, and heaths, in cultivated and waste places, in Europe 
and western and central Asia, extending northwards into southern Sweden. 
In Britain, chiefly as a weed of cultivation, but probably truly indigenous 
in Southern England and Ireland; rare in the north, but unknown in Scot- 
land. Jl. the whole season. 
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IV. SCROPHULARIA. SCROPHULARIA, 
Herbs, usually erect, with angular stems, opposite leaves, and rather 
small flowers, of a dingy purple or yellow, in loose cymes forming a ter- 
minal panicle. Calyx more or less deeply 5-cleft. Corolla nearly globular, 
with short, broad lobes; the two upper ones erect and united into an 
upper lip; the two lateral ones often shorter and erect; the lowest one 
turned downwards. Stamens 4, turned downwards, with 1-celled anthers ; 
a fifth barren stamen usually forming a scale under the upper lip. Capsule 
2-celled, opening at the partition in 2 valves. 
The species are numerous, having their great centre in the Mediterranean 
region, and in central Asia, a few only extending over the rest of Europe, 
northern Asia, and a part of North America. The shape of the corolla 
readily distinguishes the genus from all others. 
Leaves glabrous. Panicle almost leafless. 
Stem acutely angled but not winged, with numerous knotty 
tubers at its base. Leaves acute. Border of the sepals 
very narrow P 5 ‘ . 1. S. nodosa. 
Stem 4-winged, without tubers at the base. Leaves usually ob- . 
tuse. Sepals with a conspicuous scarious border : 2. 8. aquatica. 
Leaves downy. Panicle leafy at the base, or cymes all axillary. 
Leaves cordate-triangular. Flowers dull purple, with a scale 
under the upper lip 3. S. Scorodonia, 
Leaves orbicular or broadly cordate. Flowers yellow, without 
any scaleunder the upperlip. . . « 4 S. vernalis. 
1. S. nodosa, Linn. (fig. 740). Knotted Scrophularia, Figwort.— 
A coarse, erect perennial, 2 to 3 feet high, glabrous or nearly so, with 
a disagreeable smell; the short stock emitting a number of small green 
knots or tubers. Stem sharply quadrangular. Leaves large, broadly ovate 
