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57. SCROPHULARIACEiE. 
cymes lax, sep. roundish-ovate with a narrow membranous 
margin, staminode wedgeshaped slightly emarginate [rarely entire]. 
~E. B. 1544.— Root tuberous, thick, knotty. St. 2—3 feet 
high. Bracts small, lanceolate, acute. FI. greenish purple, 
lurid, sometimes green or pale. Caps, ovate. — Moist hedges 
and thickets. P. VI. VII. Knotted Figwort. E. S. I. 
2. S. umbr6sa (Dum.) ^ ; I. ovate-lanceolate acute subcordate 
glabrous sharply serrate^ lover teeth smaller, st. and petioles 
winged, cymes lax few- (4 — 8-) flowered, sep. roundish with a 
broad membranous margin, staminode bilobed tvith divergmg 
lobes— S. Ehrharti (C. A. Stev.). E. B. S. 2875. " Not S. alat'a 
Gilib.''^ — St. tall. Bracts leaflike, lanceolate, acute. Fl. dark 
purple. Caps, subglobose, blunt. — Wet places. P. VIII. 
3. S. aqvat'ica (L. em. Dum.); I. cordate-oblong roundly 
blunt glabrous crenate-serrate, st. and petioles winged, cymes 
dense corymbose many-{\ — 15-) yZo?<ierec?, sep. roundish blunt with 
a broad membranous margin, staminode roundish-reniform. — ■ 
E. B. 854. S. Balhisii Horn., Koch.— St. 2—5 feet high. 
Bracts linear, blunt. Fl. dark purple, occasionally milk-white. 
Caps, ovoid, pointed. — In wet places. P. VII. VIII. E. S. I. 
4. .S'. Scorodonia (L.) ; I. cordate-triangular with large double 
teeth downy on both sides,st. bluntly quadrangular downy, cymes 
lax few-flowered, sep. roundish downy with a membranous 
margin, staminode roundish entire. — E. B. 2209. — St. 2 — 3 feet 
high. L. wrinkled. ^rac<s^^q/?i.'^e, lower exactly like the leaves. 
Fl. purple. Caps, ovoid, acute. — In moist places. "West of 
Cornwall. Tralee, Kerry ? Jersey. P. VII. E.I.I 
** Cal. of 5 deep acute segments. Cor. yellow ; no staminode. 
|5. S. verndlis (L.) ; I. downy cordate-acute doubly serrate, 
St. winged hairy, cymes axillary corymbose with leaflike bracts, 
sep. oblong with a recurved apex. E. B. 567. — St. about 2 feet 
high. Fl. yellow, inflated ; the mouth much contracted. Caps, 
ovoid, acute. DiS'ering greatly from the other species and 
allied in appearance to some of the Calceolaria. — Waste places, 
1. L. aquat'ica (L.) ; 1. lanceolate-spathulate on long stalks, 
ped. axillary crowded shorter than the petioles. — E. B. 357. 
IX. 
E. S. 1. 
rare. P. IV. V. 
6. Limosel'la Linn. Mudwort. 
1 See Du Mortier in Bull. Belg. vii. 36. 
2 Prof. Babingtou's remark applies to Gilibert's synonym. 
