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THE SCROPHULARJA FAMILY. 



grounds, in Europe, Eussian Asia, and some parts of North America. 

 Extends all over Britain. Fl. all summer. 



2. Water Scrophularia. Scrophularia aquatica, Linn. 



(Fig. 73G.) 



(Eng. Bot. t. 854, and 8. Ehrliarti, Eng. Bot. Suppl. t. 2875.) 



Yery variable in size, but is generally 

 taller and rather less branched than the 

 knotted S., which it much resembles in 

 habit and in flowers. The angles of the 

 stem project into narrow wings, there 

 are no tubers at its base, and the leaves 

 are not so broad, and more obtuse. 

 Panicle long, and narrow. Lobes of the 

 calyx surrounded by a scarious border, 

 much more conspicuous than in the 

 knotted 8. Corolla of a dull purple. 



In wet places, along ditches and sides 

 of streams, in Europe and Russian Asia. 

 Abundant in Britain. Fl. summer. Tt 

 varies in the shape of the scale or bar- 

 ren stamen under the upper lip of the 

 corolla, in station, and in the more or 

 less acute teeth of the leaves, and two 

 species have been generally distin- 

 guished : 8. Ehrharti, a more luxuriant and leafy plant, with the 

 scale much broader than long, and the capsule nearly globular ; and 

 S. Balbisii, growing in drier situations, the leaves more pointed, the 

 scale often nearly orbicular, and the capsule more ovoid and pointed ; 

 but these differences in foliage and capsule do not always correspond 

 with those of the shape of the scale, which will often vary in different 

 flowers of the same plant. 



Fig. 736. 



3. Balm-leaved Scrophularia. Scrophularia Scorodonia, 



Linn. (Fig. 737.) 



(Eng. Bot. t. 2209.) 



Very nearly allied to the water 8. in all essential characters, and 

 distinguished chiefly by its downy, wrinkled leaves, and by the 

 panicle more leafy at its base. It is also usually a rather smaller 





