. A class-book of botany; designed for colleges, academies, and other seminaries ... illustrated by a flora of the northern, middle, and western states; particularly of the United States north of the capitol, lat. 38 3/4 o. Botany; Plants -- United States; Plants -- Canada. 396 XCI. SCROPHULARIACEiE. 0. Corolla smaller (limb 1' broad); plant smoothish. ops. There is much confusion in this genus. All my specimens, collected by inyselfand others in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Tennessee and Alabama, are pUiinly referable to R. strepens alone. Order XCI. SCROPHULARIACE^.âFigworts. Herbs, un
. A class-book of botany; designed for colleges, academies, and other seminaries ... illustrated by a flora of the northern, middle, and western states; particularly of the United States north of the capitol, lat. 38 3/4 o. Botany; Plants -- United States; Plants -- Canada. 396 XCI. SCROPHULARIACEiE. 0. Corolla smaller (limb 1' broad); plant smoothish. ops. There is much confusion in this genus. All my specimens, collected by inyselfand others in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Tennessee and Alabama, are pUiinly referable to R. strepens alone. Order XCI. SCROPHULARIACE^.âFigworts. Herbs, undershniis, or rarely shrubs, scentless or fVftid, raiely aromatic. Lvs. opposite, verticillate or alternate. FIs. axillary nr racemose, rarely spicate. C'd/.âSeiials 4 or 5, unequal, more or less uniteil at base, inferior, persistent. Cor. bilabiate, personate or otherwise irregular, tlie lobes imbricate in aestivation. Sla. 4, (lidynamous, rarely with the rudiment of the 5th ; .sometimes 2 only, the 3 others either rudimen- Ova. free, â¢2-celled, many-seeded. Style simple. Slig-ina 2lobed. Itary or wholly wanting. Fr.âCapsule 2-celled, 2valved, with central placenta;. S(h. indefinite, albuminous. E?)ii)ri/o straight. Genera 176, species 1814, found in every part of the world, from the equator to the regions of perpetual frost. They constitute about 1-36 ofthe Phajnogamia of N. America. Lindley. Pro;)m/&s.âOenerally acrid, bitter and deleterious planls. The most remarkable officinal species of the tribe is the (Digitalis), which exercises a wonderful control over the action of the heart, in regulating its pulsations. It is also employed in cases of dropsy, hemorrhage, &c. Taken in excess it epeeilily causes death. The Veronica Virginica, (Culvers Physic) and Linaria vulgaris (toad-flax) are purgative and emetic. Numerous species are cidtivated for ornament. Nearly all ot them turn black in FIG. 50.â1. Dasystoma pubescens. 2. Mature fruit. 3. Cr
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