. Botany, an elementary text for schools. Botany. SCKOPHULAKIACEiE—CAPKIFOLIACE^ 333 5. MiMULUS. MONKET-FLOWEK. Small herbs with opposite leaves, with usually showy solitary flowers on axillary peduncles: calj-x 5-anglecl and 5-toothed : corolla tuVjular, the 2-lobed upper lip erect or spreading: stamens 4: stigma 2-lobed. M. ringens, Linn. Wild monhey-floxcer. Erect perennial, with square stem and oblong or lanceolate clasping serrate leaves: flowers blue or light purple, somewhat personate. Wet places. M. luteus, Linn. Monl-ey-flower. Tiger-flower. Fig. 494. Annual, with ovate serrate leaves
. Botany, an elementary text for schools. Botany. SCKOPHULAKIACEiE—CAPKIFOLIACE^ 333 5. MiMULUS. MONKET-FLOWEK. Small herbs with opposite leaves, with usually showy solitary flowers on axillary peduncles: calj-x 5-anglecl and 5-toothed : corolla tuVjular, the 2-lobed upper lip erect or spreading: stamens 4: stigma 2-lobed. M. ringens, Linn. Wild monhey-floxcer. Erect perennial, with square stem and oblong or lanceolate clasping serrate leaves: flowers blue or light purple, somewhat personate. Wet places. M. luteus, Linn. Monl-ey-flower. Tiger-flower. Fig. 494. Annual, with ovate serrate leaves: flowers large, yellow, blotched with brick-red or brown. Western America, and commonly cultivated. To gardeners often known as J/, tigridioides. XXIV. Honeysuckle Family. Erect or twining shrubs, or sometimes herbs, with opposite mostly simple leaves: flowers epigynous, 5-merous, regular or irregular, tubular or rotate: stamens usually as many as the lobes of the corolla and inserted on its tube: ovary 2-5-loculed, ripening into a berry, drupe, or capsule. About 15 genera and 200 species. Characteristic Itlants are honej'suckle, elder, viburnum, snowberry, weigela, twin-flower. A. Corolla long-tubular 1. /Ainicvni AA. Corolla shallow, usually rotate. B. Leaves simple "J. I'iltiirnuin HH. Leaves 7>innately compound .'i. Samliurun 1. LONtCEKA. UONEVSUCKLE. Erect or twining shrubs, with tiitmlar, fiinnelfuriii, more or less irregular llowers (often 2-lippe: fruit a berry, usually 2 together from 2 contiguous ,- llowers. ^^':^' '^M""^^ L. ciMta, Muhl. Open, dL^"^^ sinooth bush, :{ ft.: leaves '-- cordate - oblong, not sharp- liointed, entire: flowers less mKt^ t • c;ij^ ' than 1 in. long, soft yellow ^^' ^^ iIm! lolies nearly ecpial : ber- '^ ,' - Common in woods. 4i»r,. I^.,,i .^nlm. MIooms in very early sj)ring. L. Tatdrica, Linn. Tnrtarinn hom ysuckti. Fig. «.'>. Tiill -hnil' ii" \-2 U.): l<d, iill 111
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