738 DIDYNAMIA. ANGIOSPERMIA. Scrophrlaria. 
Leaves concave at the base, serratures accuminate. Bunch with leaves 
interspersed, which is not the case with the other species. Linn. Floral- 
leaves awl-shaped, a pair beneath each division of the fruit-stalks. Woodw. 
Blossom dusky purple, inverted. (Calyx pubescent. E.) 
Balm-leaved Figwort. Watery places and hedges. Sea-shore about St. 
Ives, Cornwall: (where Messrs. Edward Llhwyd, Hudson, Dickson, and 
others are reported to have gathered this very rare plant: and we find 
by an insertion in Camden’s Britannia, that Mr. E. Forster, jun. supposed 
he had discovered a new habitat in Hertfordshire; this, however, proves 
a mistake, his plant being only a variety of S. nodosa; and we suspect 
S. Scorodonia should be altogether considered as a mere interloper; the 
Jersey station certainly having little more claim for insertion here than 
Gibraltar. E.) P. July—Aug. 
S. nodosa. Leaves oblong-heart-shaped, three-ribbed at the base, 
angles of the stem acute: (root tuberous. E.) 
{FI. Ban. 1167— E. Bot. 1544. E.)— Kniph. 2— Ludw. 72— Gunn. ii. 4. 1— 
Blackw. 87— Fuchs. 194— J. B. iii. 421— Riv. Mon. 107. 1, Scrophularia — 
Matth. 1130— Bod. 50. 1— Lob. Ohs. 289. 1, and Ic. i. 533. 2—Ger. Em. 
716. 1— Park. 610. 1— H. Ox. v. 8, row 3. 3 — Pet. 35. 9— Ger. 579. 2— 
Trag. 184— Lonic. i. 135. 3. 
Stem, (two or three feet high. E.) angles sometimes edged with a mem¬ 
branous line, but not to be called winged. Leaves imperfectly heart- 
shaped, the base being rather cut transversely. Crantz. Leaves and 
serratures pointed. Flowers on forked branches. Floral-leaves spear- 
shaped, taper-pointed, a pair to each flowering branch. Woodw. Upper- 
leaves nearly sessile, spear-shaped. Fruit-stalks cylindrical, with short 
pellucid hairs terminated by globules. Calyx toothed and membranous 
at the end. Blossom tube filled at the base with a honey-like liquor. 
Upper segments dusky purple; the rest pale green: the two lateral ones 
expanding; the lower rolled back. The little heart-shaped segment 
within the base of the two upper segments seems to deserve the name of 
nectary. Capsule sometimes with three or four cells. (Root large, 
consisting of roundish knobs, which are said to disappear as the plant 
attains maturity. E.) 
Knotty-roo'ted Figwort. Kernelwort. (Irish : Faruh Buh. Welsh: 
Beulen ddd ddd; Gornerth. E.) Woods and moist hedges. 
P. July.* 
S. AQUAThcA. Leaves heart-shaped, blunt, on decurrent leaf-stalks: 
angles of the stem membranous : (root fibrous. E.) 
{Curt. 291— E. Bot. 854. E.)— Kniph. 11— Blackw. 86— FI. Ban. 507— 
Bod. 50. 2— Lob. Obs. 288. 1, and Ic. i. 533. 1— Ger. Em. 715— Park. 613 
—Pet. 35. 10 —II. Ox. v. 8, row 3. i—Ger. 579. 1. 
* Figwort is hardly known in modern practice; but the rank smell, and bitter taste of 
the leaves seem to indicate active properties.—Swine that have the scab are cured 
oy washing them with a decoction of the leaves, Wasps resort greatly to the flowers ; 
(both species are supposed also to yield much honey to bees. E.) Goats eat it. Cows, 
horses, sheep, and swine refuse it. (Gerard, who was not remarkably addicted to incre¬ 
dulity, contents himself with giving the salutary warning, that “ Divers do rashly teach, 
that if it be hanged about the necke, or else caried about one, it keepeth a man in health: ” 
from which we may infer, that its more ostensible virtues were even then by no means 
unequivocal, or, at least, little understood. E.) 
