A. Oróntium, L. A small-flowered annual or biennial, low, erect; leaves lance-linear; spike loose, leafy; sepals longer than the purplish or white corolla.—About gardens and old fields in Atlantic States. (Adv. from Eu.)
A. màjus, L. (Large Snapdragon.) A large-flowered perennial, with oblong smooth leaves and a glandular-downy raceme; sepals short; corolla 1½–2´ long, purple or white.—Eastward, escaping from gardens. (Adv. from Eu.)
4. SCROPHULÀRIA, Tourn. Figwort.
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 transverse and confluent into one; the fifth stamen a scale-like rudiment at the summit of the tube of the corolla. Capsule many-seeded.—Rank herbs, with mostly opposite leaves, and small greenish-purple or lurid flowers in loose cymes, forming a terminal narrow panicle. (So called because a reputed remedy for scrofula.)
1. S. nodòsa, L., var. Marilándica, Gray. Smooth perennial (3–5° high), stem 4-sided; leaves ovate, oblong, or the upper lanceolate, acuminate, cut-serrate, rounded or rarely heart-shaped at base.—Damp grounds, N. Eng. to Fla., west to the Rocky Mts. (Eu., Asia, the type.)
5. COLLÍNSIA, Nutt.
Calyx deeply 5-cleft. Corolla declined, with the tube saccate or bulging at the base on the upper side, deeply 2-lipped; the upper lip 2-cleft, its lobes partly turned backward, the lower 3-cleft, its middle lobe keeled and sac-like, enclosing the 4 declined stamens and style. Fifth stamen a gland-like rudiment. Capsule 4–many-seeded.—Slender branching annuals or biennials, with opposite leaves, and handsome party-colored flowers in umbel-like clusters, appearing whorled in the axils of the upper leaves. (Dedicated to the late Zaccheus Collins, of Philadelphia, an accurate botanist.)
1. C. vérna, Nutt. Slender (6–20´ high), lower leaves ovate, the upper ovate-lanceolate, clasping by the heart-shaped base, toothed; whorls about 6-flowered; flowers long-peduncled; corolla (blue and white) twice the length of the calyx.—Moist soil, western N. Y. to W. Va., Wisc., and Ky. May, June.
2. C. parviflòra, Dougl. Small; lower leaves ovate or rounded, the upper oblong-lanceolate, mostly entire; whorls 2–6-flowered; flowers short-peduncled; the small (blue) corolla scarcely exceeding the calyx.—Shore of L. Superior, N. Mich., and westward.
6. CHELÒNE, Tourn. Turtle-head. Snake-head.