8 Class It Order II. 



Plant three or four feet high. Leaves opposite, very large 

 serrate and acuminate, the lower ones on long petioles, the 

 upper pair sessile. Panicle terminal, its branches opposite. 

 Flowers dull yellow ; lower lip of the corolla fringed. Sta- 

 mens distant, slender, very long. Style very long ; stigma bi- 

 fid. Roxbury, road side. July, August. Perennial. 



11. CIRC^EA, 

 CIRC^EA LUTETIANA. L. Enchanter s nightshade. 



Stein erect ; leaves ovate, slightly toothed, 

 opaque, pubescent. Smith. 



Syn. CIRCAEA CANADENSIS. Muhl. 



Stem round ; leaves opposite. Flowers in terminal racemes ; 

 petals inversely heart shaped, reddish white ; capsules round- 

 ish, covered with minute hooks ; stalks of the capsules bent 

 backward. Moist woods, particularly on Lynn beach island. 

 June, July. Perennial. 



DIGYNM. 



12. ANTHOXANTHUM. 

 ANTHOXANTHUTSI ODORATUM. L. Sweet scented vernal grass. 



Spike ovate-oblong ; flowers longer than their 

 awns, standing on short stalks. Smith. 



Stem about a foot high. Leaves short, flat ; sheathes some- 

 what swelling ; stipule lanceolate, scarious. Spike terminal, 

 solitary ; calyx glumes unequal, rough on the back ; corolla 

 shorter than the calyx, awned on the back. 



This grass, when partly faded, is exceedingly fragrant, 

 whence its name. It grows on farms where it was formerly in- 

 troduced from Europe. May, June. Perennial. 



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