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57. SCROPHULAEIACE^. 
Rootstock fleshy, with thick scales. St. 3 — 8 in. high. Young 
raceme decurved. Bracts ovate or lanceolate. Style straight 
or curved. Upper lip nearly entire, or bifid. — Woods and 
thickets, parasitical upon Hazels, &c. P. IV. V. E. S. I. 
Order LVII. SCROPHULARIACEiE. 
Cal. 4 — 5-clef t, persistent. Cor. irregular or 2-lipped or pei-- 
sonate (subrotate in Verbascum), deciduous, imbricate in the 
bud. Stam. on the cor., usually 4, didynamous, or 2 or 5. 
Ovary free, 2-celled. Style simple ; stigma 2-lobed. Fr. cap- 
sular, 2- celled ; placentas attached to the dissepiment or ulti- 
mately central. Embryo straight, in axis of fleshy albumen. 
— No stipules. 
* Sta?nens 5. 
1. Vekbascum. Cal. of 5 sepals. Cor. rotate ; segments 
unequal, spreading. Stam. unequal, 2 or more, hairy at 
the base. 
** Stamens 4, didynamous. 
[Eeinus. Cal. in 5 deep segments. Cor. 5-parted with 
nearly equal emarginate segments and a short tube. Caps. 
2- celled.] 
2. Digitalis. Cal. in 5 deep segments. Cor. bellshaped, 
oblique, 4 — 5-tid. Caps, septicidal, 2-celled. 
3. Antirrhinum. Cal. 5-parted. Co?-, personate, gibbous 
at the base (no distinct spur) ; lower lip 3-fid ; a prominent 
palate closing the mouth. Caps, opening by 2 or 3 pores 
at the top, 2-celled. 
4. LiNAKiA. Cal. 5-parted. Cor. jKrsonate, spurred ; lower 
lip 3-fid; a. prominent palate closing the mouth. Caps, 
with valves or teeth at the top, 2-celled. 
5. ScROPHULARiA. Cal. 5-lobed (in .S'. vmta/zs 5-clef t). Cor. 
globose ; limb minute, of 2 short lips, upper 2-lol)ed often 
with a scale (the rudiment of a fifth stam.) within, lower 
3- lobed. Caps. 2-valved, the edges inflexcd, 2-celIed. 
6. LiMOSELLA. Cal. 5-cleft. Cor. 5-fid, beUsliaped, equal. 
Caps, globose, 2-valved, 1-celled ; placenta central, free or 
connected with a short dissepiment below, — L. radical. 
