Class XIV. Order I. 239 



A tall, shewy plant, common by road sides in low ground, 

 three or four feet high. Leaves opposite, rough, sharply 

 serrate, tapering to a long point; the lower ones broader, with 

 commonly a lobe on each side at base, giving them somewhat 

 a hastate form. Spikes numerous, erect, slender. The flower- 

 ing commences at their base, and is long in reaching their sum- 

 mit. Flowers close, of a dark purplish hue, with four stamens. 

 July, September. Perennial. 

 VERBENA UKTICIFOLIA. L. Nettle leaved Vervain. 



Leaves oval, serrate, acute, petioled ; spikes diverg- 

 ent, filiform, panicled ; stamens four. 



Common among rubbish, about fences and buildings. Stem 

 erect, two or three feet in height. Leaves broad, oval or ovate, 

 rough, undivided. Panicles of long, very slender, flexile 

 spikes, diverging or divaricated, with distinct, somewhat remote 

 flowers, not imbricate like the last. Flowers small, white. A 

 weed of no beauty. July, August. Perennial. 



248. CLINOPODIUM. 

 CLINOPODIUM VULGARE. JL. Wild Basil. 



Whorls hispid ; bractes setaceous ; pedicels branch- 

 ed ; leaves obsoletely serrate. 



Stem hairy, obtusely quadrangular. Leaves ovate, rather 

 obtuse, slightly serrate and hairy. Flowers in terminal and ax- 

 illary whorls with hairy stalks and narrow hairy involucres. 

 Calyx nerved, hairy ; corolla purplish. Woods, Windsor, Yt. 

 July. Perennial. 



249. SCUTELLARIA. 

 SCUTELLARIA LATERiFLORA. L. Side flowering Scullcap. 



Leaves smooth, rough on the keel ; racemes lateral, 

 leafy. L. 



Stem square, branching. Leaves on petioles of considerable 

 length, ovate, acute, toothed, mostly smooth. Racemes on long, 

 axillary stalks. Flowers small, blue, numerous, interspersed 

 with small leaves. The singularity of this genus consists in the, 

 form of the calyx, which is furnished with a ridge on the upper 

 side, the part beyond this serving as. a lid. After the corolla 



