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13. Micranthemnm. Calyx 4-toothed or cleft. Upper lip of corolla short or none. Sta- 

 mens 2, anterior : filaments with an appendage. Leaves opposite. Flowers axillary. 



14 Limosella. Calyx 5-toothed. Corolla open bell-shaped, 5-cleft, nearly regular. Sta- 

 mens 4. Leaves alternate or fascicled, fleshy. Flowers axillary. 



15. Syjitbyris. Calyx 4-parted. Corolla bell-shaped, 2-4-lobed, irregular. Stamens 2 



or 4. Leaves alternate. Flowers raceuied. 



16. Veronica. Calyx 4- (rarely 3-5-) parted. Corolla wheel-shaped or salver-shaped, 



almost regular. Stamens 2. Leaves chiefly opposite or whorled. Flowers racemed. 



Tribe VI. BICHNERE^B. Corolla salver-shaped. Stamens 4, approximate in pairs .• 

 anthers 1-celled. Upper leaves alternate. Flowers in a spike. 



17. Buchnera. Calyx tubular, 5-toothed. Limb of the elongated corolla 5-cleft. 



Tribe VII. GERARDIE^). Corolla inflated or tubular, with a spreading and slightly 

 unequal 5-lobed limb. Stamens 4, approximate in pairs : anthers 2-celled. Leaves oppo 

 site, or the uppermost alternate. 



18. Seymeria. Stamens nearly equal. Tube of the corolla broad, not longer than the lobes. 



19. Gerardia. Stamens strongly unequal, included. 



Tribe VIII. EUPHRASIEJE. Corolla tubular, 2-lipped ; the upper lip narrow, 

 erect or arched, enclosing the 4 usually strongly didynamous stamens. 



* Anther-cells unequal and separated. Pod many-seeded. 



20. Castilleia. Calyx tubular, cleft down the lower, and often also on the upper, side. 



* # Anther-cells equal. Pod many -several-seeded. 



21. Schwalbea. Calyx 5-toothed, very oblique, the upper tooth much the smallest. 



22. Euphrasia. Calyx 4-cleft. Upper lip of the corolla 2-lobed. Pod oblong. 



23. Rhinaiathus. Calyx inflated, ovate. Pod orbicular : seeds winged. 



24. Pedicularis. Calyx not inflated. Pod ovate or sword-shaped : seeds wingless. 



* * * Anther-cells equal. Pod 1-4-seeded. 



25. Melampyrum. Calyx 4-clel't. Ovary 2-celled, 4-ovuled. Pod flat, oblique. 



1. VERBASCUM, L. Mullein. 



Calyx 5-parted. Corolla 5-lobed, open or concave, wheel-shaped ; the lobe* 

 broad and rounded, a little unequal. Stamens 5 ; all the filaments, or the 3 

 upper, woolly. Style flattened at the apex. Pod globular, many-seeded. — 

 Tall and usually woolly biennial herbs, with alternate leaves, those of the stem 

 sessile or decurrent. Flowers in large terminal racemes, ephemeral ; in sum- 

 mer. (The ancient Latin name, altered from Barbascum.) 



1. V. ThApstjs, L. (Common Mullein.) Densely ivooll y throughout ; stem 

 tall and stout, simple, winged by the decurrent bases of the oblong acute leaves ; 

 flowers (yellow, very rarely white) in a prolonged and very dense cylindrical spike; 

 lower stamens usually beardless. — Fields, &c. : common. (Nat. from Eu.) 



2. V. BlattAria, L. (Moth M.) Green and smoothish, slender ; lower 

 leaves petioled, oblong, doubly serrate, sometimes lyre-shaped, the upper partly 

 clasping; raceme loose; filaments all bearded with violet wool. — Koadsides : 

 not rare eastward. Corolla either yellow, or white with a tinge of purple. 

 (Nat. from Eu.) 



3. V. Lychnitis, L. (White M.) Clothed with a thin powdery woolliness ; 

 stem and branches angled above; leaves ovate, acute, not decurrent, greenish 

 above; flowers (yellow, rarely white) in a pyramidal panicle; filaments with 

 whitish wool. — Waste places, Penn. to New York : rare : hybridizes spontane- 

 ously with the common Mullein. (Adv. from Eu.) 



