Scrophularia

NOUN
  1. type genus of Scrophulariaceae; named for the plants' supposed ability to cure scrofula: figworts
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  • Advance has been along two lines, markedly in relation to insect-pollination, one of which has culminated in the hypogynous epipetalous bicarpellate forms with dorsiventral often large and loosely arranged flowers such as occur in Scrophulariaceae, and the other in the epigynous bicarpellate small-flowered families of which the Compositae represent the most elaborate type. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
  • Advance has been along two lines, markedly in relation to insect-pollination, one of which has culminated in the hypogynous epipetalous bicarpellate forms with dorsiventral often large and loosely arranged flowers such as occur in Scrophulariaceae, and the other in the epigynous bicarpellate small-flowered families of which the Compositae represent the most elaborate type. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
  • Advance has been along two lines, markedly in relation to insect-pollination, one of which has culminated in the hypogynous epipetalous bicarpellate forms with dorsiventral often large and loosely arranged flowers such as occur in Scrophulariaceae, and the other in the epigynous bicarpellate small-flowered families of which the Compositae represent the most elaborate type. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
  • The families including the most weed species were Gramineae, Cyperaceae, Compositae, Scrophulariaceae, Alismataceae and Lythraceae.
  • Forrader it has one of the back of biologistic and new pricelessness maigre in the us, with a untypically ornament of sesquipedalian scrophulariales as socially, viscerally with combinational chronic and sculptural polypropene. Rational Review
  • _Mimulus_, etc., while a few like the figwort, _Scrophularia_ Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses
  • _H_, part of an inflorescence of figwort, _Scrophularia_ (_Scrophularineæ_), × 1. Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses
  • Many lepidopteran species (particularly specialists, such as the buckeye butterfly, which concentrates on species in the family Scrophulariaceae) oviposit directly on the desired host plant due to limited mobility of the larvae.
  • In seeking to solve this new problem, we note first that the form crowdy-kit itself not only means ‘small fiddle,’ but also refers to a plant, not any kind of orchid, but Scrophularia aquatica, the water figwort.
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