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Racemes bractless or nearly so; pedicels 1-2 mm. long; scar 



of the nutlets oblong. 



Nutlets not stipitate. A. scouleri. 



Nutlets stipitate. A. stipitata. 



Allocarya hispidula Greene. Annual, much branched from the base, 

 spreading or ascending, 10-30 cm. high, sparingly hairy; leaves few, linear, 

 obtuse, 1-3 cm. long; spikes slender, elongate, leafy-bracteate near the base; 

 corolla white, small; fruiting calyx 2 mm. long, hispid; nutlets ovate-oblong, 

 with obliquely rough ridges on the three faces, keeled the whole length on the 

 ventral face; scar nearly basal. 



In moist places, not common in our limits. 



Allocarya chorisiana (Cham. & Schlecht.) Greene. Pubescence thin, ap- 

 pressed; stems branched, spreading or ascending, 30-60 cm. long; leaves linear, 

 5-10 cm. long; racemes loose, leafy-bracted below; pedicels slender, 6-8 mm. 

 long; corolla 6-8 mm. broad, the yellow appendages in the throat conspicuous; 

 nutlets ovoid, keeled on the ventral side, tuberculate and granulate on the 

 back, dark colored. 



Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Macoun; and along the coast of 

 California. Not known from any intermediate locality. 



Allocarya scouleri (Hook. & Arn.) Greene. Appressed pubescent; stems 

 slender, loosely branched, erect or nearly so, 10-30 cm. high; leaves linear, 

 sessile, the lower ones opposite; flowers in slender mostly bractless racemes; 

 pedicels 2 mm. long; calyx erect in fruit, its pubescence rusty when young; 

 corolla 6-8 mm. broad, the appendages in the throat yellow and puberulent; 

 nutlets ovoid, rugulose, granulate, dark colored. 



In wet meadows, common. 



Allocarya stipitata Greene. Very similar to A. scouleri; nutlets ovoid- 

 lanceolate, keeled on the ventral face, granulate and indistinctly rugulose 

 on the back, the scar distinctly stipitate. 



In moist places, Washington to California. 



Family 87. VERBENACEAE. VERBENA FAMILY. 



Herbs or shrubs, not aromatic; leaves opposite; flowers per- 

 fect; corolla either 2-lipped or irregular; stamens 4, didynamous; 

 style single, terminal; stigma entire or 2-lobed; ovary not lobed; 

 fruit 2-4-celled, dry or drupaceous, usually splitting when ripe 

 into as many 1-seeded indehiscent nutlets; endosperm scant or 

 none. 



423. VERBENA. VERVAIN. 



Herbs; flowers sessile, in single or panicled bracteolate spikes; 

 calyx tubular, 5-toothed, one tooth often shorter; corolla salver- 

 form, more or less unequally 5-cleft; stamens included, the upper 

 pair occasionally without anthers; style slender; stigma mostly 

 2-lobed; fruit splitting into 4-seed-like nutlets. 



Spikes narrow, dense; bracts short. V. hastata. 



Spikes loose; bracts exceeding the flowers. V. bracteosa. 



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