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* * Flowers in a terminal loose raceme. 



6. TiiYME-LEAVED S. Smootli and small, 2' to 4' high from a creeping base; leaves ovate or oblong, 



the lowest petioled and rounded. Fields, everywhere. V. serjyyUifolla. 



>• * * * Flowers in the axils of the upper leaves. Eoot annual. 



7. PunsLANK S. or Xeckweed. Smooth, branching, erect; lower leaves oval or oblong, toothed, 



and petioled; uppermost oblong-linear, sessile, and entire. Cult, grounds, &c. V. }}cre<j)ina. 



8. CoKX S. Hairy; lower leaves ovate, crcnate, petioled; the upper sessile, lance-shaped, and entire. 



Cultivated grounds. . V- ait^nsii. 



Toadflax. Llnarla. 



1. Common T. ( Butte h-axd-Eggs, PiAMsted). Stems branching, crowded with the pale linear 



leaves; flowers crowded in a close raceme, large and showy, pale yellow with the palate orange- 

 colored. A weed in fields and road-sides. L. vidgaris. 



2. Wild T. Stem very slender, simple, with scattered linear leaves; prostrate shoots at the botton* 



with broader leaves; flowers very small, blue, in a slender raceme. Sandy soil. L. QinadeTisis. 



Gerardia. GerdnUa. 

 Plants with large and showy somewhat leafy-racemed flowers; tlie corolla a little irregular, but hardly 

 2-lipped. Stamens woolly or hair}-; the 4 anthers approaching in pairs. Fl. late summer and autumn. 

 * Corolla rose-purple; calyx bell-shaped, with 5 short teeth: plants low and bushy-branched. 



1. PuurLK G. Leaves linear, rough-margined; flowers 1' long, short-stalked. G. jmrpitrta. 



2. Slendeh G. Leaves linear; flower about i' long, on a long and slender stalk. G. tenuifblia. 



* * Corolla yellow, with a rather long tube, woolly inside: calyx 5-cleft, leaf-like. 



3. Downy G. Stem (3° or 4° high) and oblong or lance-shaped leaves clothed with a fine close down^ 



upper leaves entire, lower ones sinuate or pinnatifid. AVoods. G.Jlava. 



4. Smooth G. Smooth throughout and glaucous, 3° to 0° high; lower leaves twice pinnatifid, ujlper 



once pinnatifid or entire. Kich woods. G. quercifblia. 



5. Cut-leaved G. Rather downy, bushy-branched, 2° or 3° high, very leafy; leaves pinnatifid, the 



crowded divisions cut and toothed. G. pediculciria. 



62. VERVAIIT PAMILY. Order YERBENACEvE. 



Herbs or slirubby plants, with opposite leaves, a 2-lippecl or unequally 5- (or rarely 4-) 

 lobcd corolla, and 4 stamens in pairs (i. c. 2 long and 2 short ones) : the pistil with a single 

 ovary and only one seed in each cell ; the fruit either berry-like with 4 stones, or dry and 

 splitting into 2 or 4 akenes, or in Lopseed consisting of a single akene. This family is in- 

 termediate between the foregoing order and the next. The two following are the com- 

 monest 2:enera. 



Calyx cylindrical, 2-lipped. Corolla 2-Iipped. Ovary l-celled, simple. Herb, in woods, 

 with small whitish flowers in slender and loose spikes; the calyx containing 

 the akene, turned down in fruit, {Phrijma) Loi'skei>. 



Calyx tubular, 5-toothed. Corolla salver-shaped, with 5 slightly unequal lobes. Flowers 



ia spikes or heads, summer and autumn, ( Verbena) Veuvaim, 



