. 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. Botany; Plants -- United States; Plants -- Canada. 396 XCI. SCROPHULARIACE^. /9. Corolla smaller (limb 1' broad); plant smoothish. Obs. There is much confusion in this genus. All my specimens, collected by myselfand others in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Tennessee and Alabama, are plainly referable to R. strepens alone. Order XCI. SCROPHULARIACE^.—Figworts. Herbs, under
. 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. Botany; Plants -- United States; Plants -- Canada. 396 XCI. SCROPHULARIACE^. /9. Corolla smaller (limb 1' broad); plant smoothish. Obs. There is much confusion in this genus. All my specimens, collected by myselfand others in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Tennessee and Alabama, are plainly referable to R. strepens alone. Order XCI. SCROPHULARIACE^.—Figworts. Herbs, undershrubs, or rarely shrubs, scentless or fcetid, rarely aromatic. Lvs. opposite, verticillate or alternate. Fls. axillary or racemose, rarely spicate. CaZ.—Sepals 4 or 5, unequal, more or less united at i)ase, inferior, persistent. Cor. bilabiate, personate or otherwise irregular, the lobes imbricate in aestivation. Sta. 4, didynamous, rarely with the rudiment of the 5th ; sometimes 2 only, the 3 others either rudimen- Oua. tree, 2-celled, many-seeded. S;?//e simple. Stig^ma'ZAoheil. [tary or wholly wanting. Fr.—Capsule 2-celled, 2-valved, with central placentse. Sds. indefinite, albuminous. Embryo 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 of the Phaenogamia of N. America. Lindley. Profperties.—CxeneTixWy acrid, bitter and deleterious planls. The most remarkable officinal species of the tribe is the foxglove (Digitalis), which exercises a wonderful control over the action of the heart, in regulating its pulsations. It is also employed in cases of dropsy, hemorrhiige, &c. Taken in excess it speedily causes death. The Veronica Virginica, (Culvers Physic) and Linaria vulgaris (toad-flax) are purgative and emetic. Numerous species are cultivated for ornament. Nearly all ol them turn black in FIG. 50.—1. Dasystoma pubescens. 2. Mature fruit. 3. Cross sectio
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