. A spring flora for high schools. Botany. leaves narrow and entire; racemes of blue or purple flowers slender, loose. Sandy ground. COLLINSIA Slender herbs, with opposite leaves, and parti-colored flowers in umbel-like clusters, which appear whorled in the axils of the upper leaves. Corolla 2-cleft, the short tube saccate on the upper side, the middle lobe of the lower lip saccate and inclosing C^t the declined stamens. Stamens 4, with a gland-like rudiment of the fifth. C. verna. Blue-eyed Mary. Lower leaves ovate, upper ovate-lanceolate, clasping by the heart-shaped base, toothed; whorls ab
. A spring flora for high schools. Botany. leaves narrow and entire; racemes of blue or purple flowers slender, loose. Sandy ground. COLLINSIA Slender herbs, with opposite leaves, and parti-colored flowers in umbel-like clusters, which appear whorled in the axils of the upper leaves. Corolla 2-cleft, the short tube saccate on the upper side, the middle lobe of the lower lip saccate and inclosing C^t the declined stamens. Stamens 4, with a gland-like rudiment of the fifth. C. verna. Blue-eyed Mary. Lower leaves ovate, upper ovate-lanceolate, clasping by the heart-shaped base, toothed; whorls about 6- flowered, flowers long-peduncled; corolla blue and white, more than twice exceeding the calyx. Moist grpund. April to June. SCROPHULARIA ^ ... r,, . Lollvnsia verna, Blue-eyed Herbs, with mostly opposite leaves, and ^^^' small greenish-purple flowers in a loose terminal cluster. Corolla inflated, more or less globular, with 4 erect lobes and one spread- ing one. S. marilandica, Figwort, Perennial, with square stem, glandular-puberulent in the pyramidal flower- cluster; leaves ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acu- minate, serrate; capsule thin, subglobose, with short conical summit. Rich woods. July to September. VERONICA Herbs, with opposite or whorled leaves. Co- rolla wheel-shaped or salver-shaped, almost reg- ular. Stamens 2, one on each side of the upper , , . ., lobe of the corolla. Capsule flattened, obtuse Scrophularia marilan' , . dica, Figwort. or notched at apex. V. officinalis. Speedwell. Pubescent; stem prostrate; leaves short- petioled, obovate-elliptical or wedge-oblong, obtuse, serrate; racemes SPRING FLORA 8 ' ' '" ' "' ''^ "' ^''. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Cowles, Henry Chandler, 1869-1939; Coulter, John G. (John Gaylord), b. 1876. joint author. New York
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