much the smaller, the 2 anterior united higher than the others. Upper
lip of the corolla arched, oblong, entire; the lower little shorter,
erect, 2-plaited, with 3 very short and broad obtuse lobes. Stamens 4,
included in the upper lip; anther-cells equal and parallel. Capsule
ovate, many-seeded. Seeds linear, with a loose chaff-like coat.--A
perennial minutely pubescent upright herb (1--2 deg. high), with leafy
simple stems, terminated by a loose spike of rather large dull
purplish-yellow flowers; leaves alternate, sessile, 3-nerved, entire,
ovate or oblong, the upper gradually reduced to narrow bracts; pedicels
very short, with 2 bractlets under the calyx. (Dedicated to _C. G.
Schwalbe_, an obscure German botanist.)
1. S. Americana, L.--Wet sandy soil, Mass. to La., near the coast.
May--July.
23. EUPHRASIA, Tourn. EYEBRIGHT.
Calyx tubular or bell-shaped, 4-cleft. Upper lip of the corolla erect,
scarcely arched, 2-lobed, and the sides folded back; lower lip
spreading, 3-cleft, the lobes obtuse or notched. Stamens 4, under the
upper lip; anther-cells equal, pointed at the base. Capsule oblong,
flattened. Seeds numerous.--Herbs, with branching stems, and opposite
toothed or cut leaves. Flowers, small, spiked. (Name [Greek:
eu)thrasi/a], _cheerfulness_, in allusion to its reputed medicinal
properties.)
1. E. officinalis, L. Low annual; leaves ovate or lanceolate, the lowest
crenate, the floral bristly-toothed; lobes of the lower lip of the
(whitish, yellowish, or bluish) corolla notched.--Coast of Maine and
Lower Canada; perhaps introduced from Eu.--Var. TATARICA, Benth., a low
form with small flowers (2--3'' long), and mostly rounded
leaves.--Alpine region of N. H., shore of L. Superior, and far
northward.
24. BARTSIA, L.
Calyx equally 4-cleft. Corolla with upper lip entire and sides not
folded back. Otherwise much as Euphrasia.--Herbs, with opposite sessile
leaves, and subsessile flowers, in the upper axils and in a terminal
leafy spike.
B. ODONTITES, Huds. A span or two high from an annual root, branching,
scabrous-pubescent; leaves oblong-lanceolate, coarsely and remotely
serrate; spikes elongated, loosely-flowered; corolla small,
rose-red.--Coast of Maine and N. Scotia. (Nat. from Eu.)
25. RHINANTHUS, L. YELLOW-RATTLE.
Calyx membranaceous, flattened, much inflated in fruit, 4-toothed. Upper
lip of corolla arched, ovate, obtuse, flattened, entire at the summit,
but with a minute tooth on each side below the apex; lower lip 3-lobed.
Stamens 4, under the upper lip; anthers approximate, hairy, transverse;
the cells equal, pointless. Capsule orbicular, flattened. Seeds many,
orbicular, winged.--Annual upright herbs, with opposite leaves; the
yellow flowers crowded in a one-sided leafy-bracted spike. (Name
composed of [Greek: r(i/n], _a snout_, and [Greek: a)/nthos], _a
flower_, from the beaked upper lip in some species formerly of this
genus.)
1. R. Crista-galli, L. Leaves narrowly oblong to lanceolate, coarsely
serrate, the floral bracts more incised with bristle-tipped teeth;
corolla 6'' long; seeds broadly winged (when ripe they rattle in the
inflated calyx, whence the popular name.)--Coast of N. Eng. and alpine
region of N. H., to L. Superior, and northward. (Eu., Asia.)
26. PEDICULARIS, Tourn. LOUSEWORT.
Calyx various. Corolla strongly 2-lipped; the upper lip arched,
flattened, often beaked at the apex; the lower erect at base, 2-crested
above, 3-lobed; lobes commonly spreading, the lateral ones rounded and
larger. Stamens 4, under the upper lip; anthers transverse; the cells
equal, pointless. Capsule ovate or lanceolate, mostly oblique, several
seeded.--Perennial herbs, with chiefly pinnatifid leaves, the floral
bract-like, and rather large flowers in a spike. (Name from _pediculus_,
a louse; of no obvious application.)
1. P. Canadensis, L. (COMMON LOUSEWORT. WOOD BETONY.)
Hairy; stems simple, clustered (5--12' high); _leaves scattered, the
lowest pinnately parted, the others half-pinnatifid_; spike short and
dense; _calyx split in front, otherwise almost entire_, oblique; _upper
lip of the_ (dull greenish-yellow and purplish) _corolla hooded,
incurved_, 2-toothed under the apex; capsule _flat, somewhat
sword-shaped_.--Copses and banks, common. May--July.
2. P. lanceolata, Michx. Stem upright (1--3 deg. high), nearly simple,
mostly smooth; _leaves partly opposite, oblong-lanceolate, doubly
cut-toothed_; spike crowded; _calyx 2-lobed_, leafy-crested; _upper lip
of the_ (pale yellow) _corolla incurved_ and bearing a short truncate
beak at the apex, the lower erect, so as nearly to close the throat;
_capsule ovate, scarcely longer than the calyx_.--Swamps, Conn. to Va.,
Ohio, and Minn.
3. P. Furbishiae, Watson. Tall (2--3 deg. high) pubescent or glabrate; leaves
lanceolate, _pinnately parted and the short oblong divisions
pinnatifid-incised_, or the upper simply pinnatifid and the lobes
serrate; bracts ovate, laciniate-dentate; _calyx-lobes_ 5, rather
unequal, linear-lanceolate, entire or toothed; _upper lip of corolla
straight_ and beakless, the truncate apex bicuspidate, the lower erect,
truncately 3-lobed; _capsule broadly ovate_.--Banks of the St. John's,
Aroostook Co., Maine (_Miss Kate Furbish_), and adjacent N. Brunswick.
27. MELAMPYRUM, Tourn. COW-WHEAT.
Calyx bell-shaped, 4-cleft; the taper lobes sharp-pointed. Tube of
corolla cylindrical, enlarging above; upper lip arched, compressed,
straight in front; the lower erect-spreading, biconvex, 3-lobed at the
apex. Stamens 4, under the upper lip; anthers approximate, oblong,
nearly vertical, hairy; the equal cells minutely pointed at base. Ovary
with 2 ovules in each cell. Capsule flattened, oblique,
1--4-seeded.--Erect branching annuals, with opposite leaves, the lower
entire, the upper mostly toothed at base. Flowers solitary in the upper
axils. (Name from [Greek: me/las], _black_, and [Greek: pyro/s],
_wheat_; from the color of the seeds of some species as they appear
mixed with grain.)
1. M. Americanum, Michx. Leaves lanceolate, short-petioled, the floral
ones like the lower, or truncate at base and beset with a few bristly
teeth; calyx-teeth linear-awl-shaped, not half the length of the slender
tube of the pale greenish-yellow corolla (5'' long).--Open woods;
common, from the Atlantic to Minn. and Iowa, especially eastward.
June--Sept.
ORDER 76. OROBANCHACEAE. (BROOM-RAPE FAMILY.)
_Herbs destitute of green foliage (root-parasites), monopetalous,
didynamous, the ovary one-celled with 2 or 4 parietal placentae; pod very
many-seeded; seeds minute, with albumen and a very minute
embryo._--Calyx persistent, 4--5-toothed or parted. Corolla tubular,
more or less 2-lipped, ringent, persistent and withering; upper lip
entire or 2-lobed, the lower 3-lobed. Stamens 4, didynamous, inserted on
the tube of the corolla; anthers 2-celled, persistent. Ovary free,
ovoid, pointed with a long style; stigma large. Capsule 1-celled,
2-valved; each valve bearing on its face one placenta or a pair. Seeds
very numerous, minute.--Low, thick or fleshy herbs, bearing scales in
place of leaves, lurid yellowish or brownish throughout. Flowers
solitary or spiked.
[*] Flowers of two sorts, scattered along slender panicled branches.
1. Epiphegus. Upper flowers sterile, with a tubular corolla; the lower
fertile, with the corolla minute and not expanding. Bracts
inconspicuous.
[*][*] Flowers all alike and perfect; sterns mostly simple.
2. Conopholis. Flowers, densely spicate. Calyx deeply cleft in front.
Corolla 2-lipped Stamens exserted.
3. Aphyllon. Flowers pedicellate, sometimes subsessile and
thyrsoid-spicate. Calyx regularly 5-cleft. Corolla somewhat 2-lipped.
Stamens included.
4. Orobanche. Flowers sessile, spicate. Calyx cleft before and behind
almost to the base. Corolla 2-lipped. Stamens included.
1. EPIPHEGUS, Nutt. BEECH-DROPS. CANCER-ROOT.
Flowers racemose or spiked, scattered on the branches; the upper
sterile, with a long tubular corolla and long filaments and style; the
lower fertile, with a very short corolla which seldom opens, but is
forced off from the base by the growth of the pod; stamens and style
very short. Calyx 5-toothed. Stigma capitate, a little 2-lobed. Capsule
2-valved at the apex, with 2 approximate placentae on each valve.--Herbs
slender, purplish or yellowish-brown, much branched, with small
scattered scales, 6--12' high. (Name from [Greek: e)pi/], _upon_, and
[Greek: phego/s], _the Beech_, because it grows on the roots of that
tree.)
1. E. Virginiana, Bart. Corolla of the upper (sterile) flowers whitish
and purple, 6--8'' long, curved, 4-toothed.--Common under Beech-trees,
parasitic on their roots; N. Brunswick to Wisc., south to Fla. and Ark.
Aug.--Oct.
2. CONOPHOLIS, Wallroth. SQUAW-ROOT. CANCER-ROOT.
Flowers in a thick scaly spike, perfect, with 2 bractlets at the base of
the irregularly 4--5-toothed calyx; its tube split down on the lower
side. Corolla tubular, swollen at base, strongly 2 lipped; upper lip
arched, notched at the summit, the lower shorter, 3-parted, spreading.
Stamens protruded. Stigma depressed. Capsule with 4 placentae, a pair on
the middle of each valve.--Upper scales forming bracts to the flowers,
regularly imbricate, not unlike those of a fir-cone (whence the name,
from [Greek: ko~nos], _a cone_, and [Greek: pholi/s], _a scale_).
1. C. Americana, Wallroth.--Oak woods, growing in clusters among fallen
leaves; N. Eng. to Mich., south to Fla. and Tenn. May, June.--A singular
plant, chestnut-colored or yellowish throughout, as thick as a man's
thumb, 3--6' high, covered with fleshy scales, which become dry and
hard.
3. APHYLLON, Mitchell. NAKED BROOM-RAPE.
Flowers perfect, pedicellate, sometimes subsessile and thyrsoid-spicate.
Calyx 5-cleft, regular. Corolla somewhat 2-lipped; the upper lip more or
less spreading and 2-lobed, the lower spreading, 3-lobed. Stamens
included. Stigma broadly 2-lipped or crateriform. Capsule with 4
placentae, equidistant or contiguous in pairs. Plants brownish or
whitish. Flowers (purplish or yellowish) and naked scapes minutely
glandular-pubescent. (Name from [Greek: a-] privative and [Greek:
phy/llon], _foliage_, alluding to the naked stalks.)
[*] _Flowers solitary on long naked scapes or peduncles, without
bractlets; corolla with a long curved tube and spreading 5-lobed limb._
1. A. uniflorum, Gray. (ONE-FLOWERED CANCER-ROOT.) _Stem subterranean or
nearly so, very short_, scaly, often branched, each branch sending up
1--3 slender one-flowered scapes (3--5' high); _divisions of the calyx
lance-awl-shaped_, half the length of the corolla, which is 1' long,
with 2 yellow bearded folds in the throat, and obovate lobes.--Damp
woodlands, Newf. to Va. and Tex., and west to the Pacific. April, May.
2. A. fasciculatum, Gray. _Scaly stem erect and rising 3--4' out of the
ground_, mostly longer than the crowded peduncles; _divisions of the
calyx triangular, very much shorter than the corolla_, which has rounded
short lobes.--Sandy ground, L. Michigan to Minn., southward west of the
Mississippi, and westward. On Artemisia, Eriogonum, etc. May.
[*][*] _Caulescent, flowers densely spicate, with 1--2 bractlets at base
of calyx; corolla 2-lipped, the upper lip less or not at all 2-cleft._
3. A. Ludovicianum, Gray. Glandular-pubescent, branched (3--12' high);
corolla somewhat curved, twice the length of the narrow lanceolate
calyx-lobes; the lips equal in length. (Phelipaea Ludoviciana,
_Walp._)--Minn. to Ill. and Tex., and westward.
4. OROBANCHE, Tourn. BROOM-RAPE.
Flowers spicate, sessile. Calyx cleft before and behind almost or quite
to the base, the divisions usually 2-cleft. Corolla 2-lipped; upper lip
erect, 2-lobed or emarginate, the lower spreading, broadly 3-lobed.
Stamens included.--Old World parasites, on roots of various plants.
O. MINOR, L. A span to a foot high, pubescent, pale yellowish-brown, or
with purplish-tinged flowers in a rather loose spike; corolla 6''
long.--Parasitic on clover, N. J. to Va. Sparingly and probably recently
introduced.
(Addendum) O. RAMOSA, L. Often branched, 6' high or less, of a pale
straw-color; flowers 3-bracteate, the lateral bracts small; calyx
4-toothed, split at the back; corolla pale blue, 6--8'' long.--On the
roots of hemp and tobacco; Ky. (Int. from Eu.)
ORDER 77. LENTIBULARIACEAE. (BLADDERWORT FAMILY.)
_Small herbs (growing in water or wet places), with a 2-lipped calyx,
and a 2-lipped personate corolla, 2 stamens with (confluently)
one-celled anthers, and a one-celled ovary with a free central placenta,
bearing several anatropous seeds, with a thick straight embryo, and no
albumen._--Corolla deeply 2-lipped, the lower lip larger, 3-lobed and
with a prominent palate, spurred at the base in front; the palate
usually bearded. Ovary free; style very short or none; stigma
1--2-lipped. Capsule often bursting irregularly. Scapes
1--few-flowered.--The following are the two principal genera.
1. Utricularia. Calyx-lobes mostly entire. Upper lip of corolla erect.
Filaments strongly incurved. Foliage dissected; bladder-bearing.
2. Pinguicula. Calyx with upper lip deeply 3- and lower 2-cleft.
Corolla-lobes spreading. Filaments straighter. Terrestrial, with entire
rosulate leaves next the ground.
1. UTRICULARIA, L. BLADDERWORT.
Lips of the 2-parted calyx entire, or nearly so. Corolla personate, the
palate on the lower lip projecting, often closing the throat; upper lip
erect. Anthers convergent.--Aquatic and immersed, with capillary
dissected leaves bearing little bladders, which float the plant at the
time of flowering; or rooting in the mud, and sometimes with few or no
leaves or bladders. Scapes 1--few-flowered; usually flowering all
summer. Bladders furnished with a valvular lid and usually with a few
bristles at the orifice. (Name from _utriculus_, a little bladder.)
[*] _Upper leaves in a whorl on the otherwise naked scape, floating by
means of large bladders formed of the inflated petioles; the lower
leaves dissected and capillary, bearing small bladders; rootlets few or
none._
1. U. inflata, Walt. Swimming free; bladder-like petioles oblong,
pointed at the ends and branched near the apex, bearing fine thread-like
divisions; flowers 3--10 (large, yellow); the appressed spur half the
length of the corolla; style distinct.--In still water, Maine to Tex.,
near the coast.
[*][*] _Scapes naked (except some small scaly bracts), from immersed
branching stems, which commonly swim free, bearing capillary dissected
leaves with small bladders on their lobes; roots few and not affixed, or
none. (Mostly perennial, propagated from year to year by tuber-like
buds.)_
[+] _Cleistogamous flowers along the submersed copiously bladder-bearing
stems._
2. U. clandestina, Nutt. Leaves numerous on the slender immersed stems,
several times forked, capillary; scapes slender (3--5' high); lips of
the yellow corolla nearly equal in length, the lower broader and
3-lobed, somewhat longer than the approximate thick and blunt
spur.--Ponds, from N. Brunswick and N. Eng. to N. J., near the coast.
[+][+] _No cleistogamous flowers._
[++] _Pedicels recurved in fruit; corolla yellow._
3. U. vulgaris, L. (GREATER BLADDERWORT.) Immersed stems (1--3 deg. long)
_crowded with 2--3-pinnately many-parted capillary leaves, bearing many
bladders_; scapes 5--12-flowered (6--12' long); _corolla closed_ (6--9''
broad), the sides reflexed; spur conical, rather shorter than the lower
lip, thick and blunt in the European and the high northern plant; in the
common American plant less thick and rather acute.--Common in ponds and
slow streams, Newf. to Minn., south to Va. and Tex., and westward. (Eu.,
Asia.)
4. U. minor, L. (SMALLER B.) _Leaves scattered_ on the thread-like
immersed stems, 2--4 times _forked_, short; scapes weak, 2--8-flowered
(3--7' high); _upper lip of the gaping corolla not longer than the
depressed palate; spur very short and blunt, or almost none_.--Shallow
water, E. Mass, to Minn., south to N. J. and Ark., and westward. (Eu.)
[++][++] _Pedicels erect in fruit, few and slender; corolla yellow._
5. U. gibba, L. _Scape_ (1--3' high) _1--2-flowered_, at base furnished
with very slender short branches, bearing sparingly dissected capillary
root-like leaves and scattered bladders; corolla 3--4'' broad, the lips
broad and rounded, nearly equal; the _lower_ with the sides reflexed,
_exceeding and approximate to the very thick and blunt conical gibbous
spur_.--Shallow water, Mass. to Mich., south to Va. and Ill.; Mt. Desert
(_F. M. Day_).
6. U. biflora, Lam. _Scape_ (2--5' high) _1--3-flowered_, at the base
bearing somewhat elongated submersed branches with capillary root-like
leaves and numerous bladders; _corolla 4--6'' broad, the spur oblong,
equalling the lower lip_; seeds scale-shaped.--Ponds and shallow waters,
S. Ill. and Iowa to Tex.; also S. Va. (?), and Barnstable, Mass. (_W.
Deane_).
7. U. fibrosa, Walt. _Leaves_ crowded or whorled on the small immersed
stems, several times forked, _capillary_; the bladders borne mainly
along the stems; flowers 2--6 (6'' broad); lips nearly equal, broad and
expanded, the upper undulate, concave, plaited-striate in the middle;
_spur nearly linear, obtuse_, approaching and almost equalling the lower
lip. (U. striata, _LeConte_.)--Shallow pools in pine barrens, L. Island
and N. J. to Fla. and Ala.
8. U. intermedia, Hayne. _Leaves_ crowded on the immersed stems,
_2-ranked_, 4--5 times forked, _rigid_, the divisions linear-awl-shaped,
minutely bristle-toothed along the margins; _the bladders borne on
separate leafless branches_; upper lip of corolla much longer than the
palate; _spur conical-subulate, acute, appressed to the very broad
(6--8'') lower lip and nearly as long as it_.--Shallow pools, Newf. to
N. J., west to Iowa, Minn., and northward. (Eu., Asia.)
[++][++][++] _Pedicels erect in fruit, rather long; corolla
violet-purple._
9. U. purpurea, Walt. Leaves whorled along the long immersed free
floating stems, petioled, decompound, capillary, bearing many bladders;
flowers 2--4 (6'' wide); spur appressed to the 3-lobed 2-saccate lower
lip of the corolla and about half its length.--Ponds, Maine and N. Penn.
to Fla., mainly near the coast; also Lake Co., Ind.
[*][*][*] _Scape solitary, slender and naked, or with a few small
scales, the base rooting in the mud or soil; leaves small, awl-shaped or
grass-like, often raised out of the water, commonly few or fugacious;
air-bladders few on the leaves or rootlets, or commonly none._
[+] _Flower purple, solitary; leaves bearing a few delicate lobes._
10. U. resupinata, B. D. Greene. Scape (2--8' high) 2-bracted above;
leaves thread-like, on delicate creeping branches; corolla (4--5'' long)
deeply 2-parted; spur oblong-conical, very obtuse, shorter than the
dilated lower lip and remote from it, _both ascending_, the flower
resting transversely on the summit of the scape.--Sandy margins of
ponds, E. Maine to R. I., near the coast; also N. New York and Presque
Isle, L. Erie.
[+][+] _Flowers 2--10, (chiefly) yellow; leaves entire, rarely seen._
11. U. subulata, L. Stem capillary (3--5' high); _pedicels capillary;
lower lip of the corolla flat_ or with its margins recurved, _equally
3-lobed_, much larger than the ovate upper one; _spur oblong_, acute,
straight, _appressed_ to the lower lip, which it nearly equals in
length.--Sandy swamps, and pine-barrens, Nantucket, Mass., to N. J.,
Fla., and Tex., near the coast.
Var. cleistogama, Gray. Only 1--2' high, bearing 1 or 2 evidently
cleistogamous purplish flowers, not larger than a pin's head; capsule
becoming 1'' long. (The unnamed Utricularia in the Man., p. 320).--With
the ordinary form; Barnstable and Nantucket, Mass., pine-barrens of
N. J., and southward.
12. U. cornuta, Michx. Stem strict (3'--1 deg. high), 1--5-flowered;
_pedicels not longer than the calyx_; corolla 1' long, the _lower lip
large and helmet-shaped_, its centre very convex and projecting, while
the sides are strongly reflexed; upper lip obovate and much smaller;
_spur awl-shaped, turned downward_ and outward, about as long as the
lower lip.--Peat-bogs, or sandy swamps, Newf. to Minn., south to Fla.
and Tex.; common.
2. PINGUICULA, Tourn. BUTTERWORT.
Upper lip of the calyx 3-cleft, the lower 2-cleft. Corolla with an open
hairy or spotted palate, the lobes spreading.--Small and stemless
perennials, growing on damp rocks, with 1-flowered scapes, and broad and
entire leaves, all clustered at the root, soft-fleshy, mostly greasy to
the touch (whence the name, from _pinguis_, fat).
1. P. Vulgaris, L. Leaves ovate or elliptical; scape and calyx a little
pubescent; lips of the violet corolla very unequal, the tube
funnel-form; spur straightish.--Wet rocks, northern N. Eng. and N. Y. to
Minn., and far northward. (Eu., Asia.)
ORDER 78. BIGNONIACEAE. (BIGNONIA FAMILY.)
_Woody plants, monopetalous, didynamous or diandrous, with the ovary
commonly 2-celled by the meeting of the two parietal placentae or of a
projection from them, many-ovuled; fruit a dry capsule, the large flat
winged seeds with a flat embryo and no albumen, the broad and leaf-like
cotyledons notched at both ends._--Calyx 2-lipped, 5-cleft, or entire.
Corolla tubular or bell-shaped, 5-lobed, somewhat irregular or 2-lipped,
deciduous; the lower lobe largest. Stamens inserted on the corolla; the
fifth or posterior one, and sometimes the shorter pair also, sterile or
rudimentary; anthers of 2 diverging cells. Ovary free, bearing a long
style, with a 2-lipped stigma.--Leaves compound or simple, opposite,
rarely alternate. Flowers large and showy.--Chiefly a tropical family.
1. Bignonia. Pod flattened parallel with the partition. Leaves compound,
tendril-bearing.
2. Tecoma. Pod flattish contrary to the partition. Leaves compound,
without tendrils.
3. Catalpa. Pod terete. Fertile stamens only 2. Trees; leaves simple.
1. BIGNONIA, Tourn.
Calyx truncate, or slightly 5-toothed. Corolla somewhat bell-shaped,
5-lobed and rather 2-lipped. Stamens 4, often showing a rudiment of the
fifth. Capsule linear, 2-celled, flattened parallel with the valves and
partition. Seeds transversely winged.--Woody climbers, with chiefly
compound leaves, terminating in a tendril. (Named for the _Abbe
Bignon_.)
1. B. capreolata, L. (CROSS-VINE.) Smooth; leaves of 2 ovate or oblong
leaflets and a branched tendril, often with a pair of accessory leaves
in the axil resembling stipules; peduncles few and clustered,
1-flowered; corolla orange, 2' long; pod 6' long; seeds with the wing
11/2' long.--Rich soil, Va. to S. Ill and south to Fla. and La. April.
Climbing tall trees; a transverse section of the wood showing a cross.
2. TECOMA, Juss. TRUMPET-FLOWER.
Calyx bell-shaped, 5-toothed. Corolla funnel-form, 5-lobed, a little
irregular. Stamens 4. Capsule 2-celled, with the partition at right
angles to the convex valves. Seeds transversely winged.--Woody, with
compound leaves, climbing by aerial rootlets. (Abridged from the Mexican
name.)
1. T. radicans, Juss. (TRUMPET CREEPER.) Leaves pinnate; leaflets 9--11,
ovate, pointed, toothed; flowers corymbed; stamens not protruded beyond
the tubular-funnel-form orange and scarlet corolla (21/2--3' long); pod
oblanceolate, 4--5' long.--Moist soil, Penn. to Ill., south to Fla. and
Tex. Common in cultivation farther north.
3. CATALPA, Scop., Walt. CATALPA. INDIAN BEAN.
Calyx deeply 2-lipped. Corolla bell-shaped, swelling; the undulate
5-lobed spreading border irregular and 2-lipped. Fertile stamens 2, or
sometimes 4; the 1 or 3 others sterile and rudimentary. Capsule very
long and slender, nearly cylindrical, 2-celled, the partition at right
angles to the valves. Seeds winged on each side, the wings cut into a
fringe.--Trees, with ovate or cordate and mainly opposite leaves. (The
aboriginal name.)