DESCRIPTION OF MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
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less. Flowers yellow, in a prolonged and very dense cyl- 
indrical spike. Fields and fallow grounds, a very common 
plant. Leaves and flowers are collected separately. 
Xinaria vulgaris, Mill. Butter and Eggs. Erect, glabrous pe- 
rennial, with linear extremely numerous pale leaves ; raceme 
dense, terminal. Calyx 5-parted. Corolla personate, with 
prominent palate, V long or more, including the slender sub- 
ulate spur. Stamens 4. Capsule thin, opening below the 
summit by a pore. Seed winged. Scatteringly through the 
territory along fences and roadsides. Sometimes becoming 
a troublesome weed in cultivated grounds. The herb. 
Ohelone glabra, L. Turtle-head; Balmony. Smooth, peren- 
nial with upright branching stems 2-6° high. Leaves nar- 
rowly to rather broadly lanceolate 4-5' long, 4-12" wide, 
gradually acuminate, serrate with sharp appressed teeth, nar- 
rowed at base usually into a very short petiole; bracts not 
ciliate, corolla white or barely tinged with rose; inflated tu- 
bular with the mouth a little open ; upper lip broad and 
arched, keeled in the middle, notched at the apex, the lower 
woolly-bearded in the throat, 3-lobed at the apex, the middle 
lob smallest. Stamens 4 with wolly, heart-shaped anthers, 
and a fifth sterile filament smaller than the others. Seeds 
many, wing-margined. In wet places over the State. FI. 
August-September. The leaves are collected in flowering 
season. 
Scrophularia nodosa, L., var. Marilandica, Gray. Figwort. Bank 
herb with opposite, ovate or oblong leaves or the upper 
lanceolate, acuminate, cut-serrate, rounded or rarely heart- 
shaped at the base, stem 4-sided. Calyx deeply 5-cleft. 
Corolla with a somewhat globular tube ; the 4 upper lobes 
of the short border erect (the two upper longer), the lower 
spreading. Stamens 4, declined, with the anther-cells trans- 
verse and confluent into one; the fifth stamen a scale-like 
, rudiment at the summit of the tube of the corolla. Capsule 
many-seeded. Collect leaves and tops. FI. June-July. In 
low damp ground, common. 
