354 Scrophulariaceae 
J. Plant glabrous or merely glandular-puberulent; lowest leaves oval-oblong, 
toothed; petals white; capsules emarginate. W. E. 
; V. peregrina L. (Neck-weed) 
JJ. Plant pubescent; lowest leaves ovate, crenate; petals blue; capsule obcor- 
date W.C. E. Vz arvensis L. (Wall Speedwell) 
II. Flowers in the axils of ordinary leaves; pedicels long; seed cup-shaped; petals 
blue; plant pubescent. E. V, tournefortii Gmel. 
SYNTHYRIS 
Perennial; stems simple. Leaves chiefly basal. Flowers rather small, white or 
pink or blue or purple, in terminal spikes or racemes. Calyx 4-parted. Corolla oblong 
to short-campanulate, 4-cleft, more or less irregular, rarely none. Stamens 2, rarely 4, 
exserted. Stigma capitate. Capsule flattish, obtuse or emarginate. Seeds saucer-shaped, 
orbicular or oval, smooth. (Gk. syn—together, thyris—=a little door; referring to the 
clesed valves of the pod.) - 
A. Leaves reniform-orbicular; flowers in racemes. 
B. Petals entire. 
C. Scape naked except for the floral bracts, usually shorter than the leaves; calyx- 
lobes ovate. W. CC. S. rotundifolia Gray 
CC. Scape with some scattered and alternate or opposite leaves, exceeding the 
leaves; calyx-lobes lanceolate. E. (S. major.) 
S. reniformis Benth. 
BB. Petals laciniately incised. W. 
S. schizantha Pip. 
AA. Leaves not reniform-orbicular; flowers in spikes. 
D. Leaves crenulate; corolla none. F. 
S. rubra Benth. 
DD. Leaves pinnatifid; corolla whitish, nearly twice as long as the calyx. 
E. Plant slightly white-woolly. E. 
S. pinnatifida Wats. 
FEE. Plant densely white-woolly. W. 
S. pinnatifida lanuginosa Pip. 
DIGITALIS FOX-GLOVE 
Tall, biennial or perennial (ours). Leaves alternate, in ours 15—25 cm. long, 
dentate, ovate to lanceolate. Flowers showy, white or red or purple, often spotted, in 
racemes; racemes long, terminal, usually |-sided, 3.55 cm. long (ours). Calyx 
5-parted. Corolla 3.5—5 cm. long. (ours) ; tube contracted above the ovary and then 
rather abruptly expanded, longer than the limb; limb 4—5-lobed, slightly 2-lipped, upper 
lip widely emarginate or 2-cleft; lower lip 3-lobed, middle lobe largest. Stamens 4, 
2 shorter. Stigma 2-lobed. Capsule ovoid, septicidal. Seeds many, rugose. (L. dig- 
italis—belonging to the finger; the corolla suggests a glove-finger.) W., 
D. purpurea L. 
RHINANTHEAE  (Paint-BRusH ‘TRIBE)—Herbs, annual or biennial or per- 
ennial, erect. Leaves alternate or opposite or whorled, pinnately veined or several- 
veined from the base, entire to dissected, 1.230 cm. long (ours). Flowers either 
solitary in the leaf-axils or else in terminal racemes or spikes or fascicles. Calyx 1—5- 
toothed or -lobed. Corolla tubular. not swollen at base, distinctly irregular, variously col- 
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