POPULAR FLORA. 
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61. FIG WORT FAMILY. Order SCROPHULARIACE^E. 
Herbs with a 2-lipped or more or less irregular monopetalous corolla, and 4 stamens 
in pairs (2 long and 2 short), or only 2 perfect stamens; 
rarely all 5 present: style 1 : the ovary 2-celled and 
making a many-seeded pod (few-seeded in some Speed- 
wells and Cow-wheat). Flowers often showy. Two lobes 
always belong to the upper lip, three to the lower. 
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434. Corolla of a Pentstemon, 
laid open, showing 1 the 4 perfect 
stamens and the fifth as a sterile 
naked filament, 
435. Stamens (with a piece of 
the corolla) of another Pentste- 
mon, with the sterile filament 
bearded. 
436. Piece of Purple Gerardia. 
437. Corolla laid open, showing 
the 4 stamens in pairs. 
438. Style and calyx of the same. 
$39. Part of a pod. 
440. Flower of Toadflax. 
441. Plant of Hedge-Hyssop. 
442. Flower laid open ; one pair 
©f good stamens ; «ne pair of ster- 
ile filaments. 
* Corolla wheel-shaped or with a very short tube, the lobes more or less unequal. 
Calyx and corolla 5-cleft: stamens 5, some of them rather imperfect, ( Verbascum ) Mullein. 
Calyx and corolla 4-parted : stamens 2, ( Veronica) Speedwell 
* * Corolla more or less tubular, bell-shaped and irregular, or 2-lipped. 
-t- Upper lip or lobes covering the lower in the bud (except sometimes in Monkey-flower). 
Corolla with its 2-lipped mouth closed by a palate, i. e. an inward projection of the lower 
lip: stamens 4. 
Corolla with a slender spur at the base on the lower side, ( Linciria ) Toadflax. 
Corolla sac-like at the base on the lower side, ( Antirrhinum ) Snapdragon. 
Corolla 2-parted: the lower lip sac-shaped in the middle; the short tube with a protuber- 
ance at the base on the upper side : stamens 4, ( Collinsia) Collinsia 
