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THE SCROPHULARIA FAMILY. 



Flowers numerous and nodding, in a 

 dense spike, or sometimes shortly stalked. 

 Calyx about 5 lines long. Corolla half 

 as long again, the upper lip entire or 

 sligTitly notched. Stamens and style 

 nearly as long as the corolla, or some- 

 times, especially the style, projecting 

 beyond it. 



On the roots of trees, especially the 

 Hazel, throughout Europe and central 

 and Russian Asia, except the extreme 

 north. Not uncommon in England and 

 Ireland, and extends into the southern 

 counties of Scotland. Fl. early spring. 



Fig. 718. 



LIV. THE SCROPHULARIA FAMILY. 



LARINE^!. 



SCROPHU- 



Herbs, or in some exotic species shrubs, with opposite or alter- 

 nate leaves, and no stipules. Calyx persisting round the fruit, 

 usually with 5 teeth or segments, sometimes fewer. Corolla mo- 

 nopetalous, 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 two-lipped or personate corolla, the stamens in pairs, and 

 the seeds more than one 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 fami- 

 lies, are only to be accurately distinguished from Scrophularinece by an 



