CI. 8.] labiatje. 99 



Order to Verbenacece, in Annal. du Mus. v. 7. Br. 

 Prodr. v. 1. 510. 



Ord. 39. Labiate. "Calyx tubular, either 2- 

 lipped, or rather unequally 5-cleft. Corolla tubular, 

 irregular, mostly 2-lipped. Stamens 4, didynamous, 

 inserted under the upper lip; 2 of them sometimes 

 imperfect, or wanting. Germen 4-lobed. Style 1, 

 centra], from the base of the lobes. Stigma cloven. 

 Seeds 4, naked, erect, inserted by their base into a 

 Receptacle at the bottom of the permanent Calyx. 

 Albumen none. Stem quadrangular, oppositely 

 branched, mostly herbaceous. Leaves opposite, 

 scarcely ever compound. Flowers opposite, with 

 leafy or bristly Bracteas ; solitary, or whorled ; co- 

 rymbose, or spiked ; terminal, or axillary." 



A most natural Order, the Ver titillate of Ray and 

 Linnaeus. Herbage usually aromatic, often bitter, al- 

 ways harmless. 



Jussieu makes 4 Sections. 



Sect. 1. Two Stamens only perfect. Lycopus, 

 Monarda, Rosmarinus, Salvia, &c. 



Sect. 2. Four perfect Stamens. Upper lip scarce- 

 ly any. Ajuga (Bugula Juss.) and Tentorium. 



Sect. 3. Stam. 4. Cor. 2-lipped. Calyx 5-cleft. 

 Satureia, Nepeta, Lavandula, Mentha, Lamium, 

 fig. 21, 22, Stachys, Marrubium, Phlomis, &c. 



Sect. 4. Stam. 4. Cor. 2-lipped. Calyx 2-lipped. 

 Origanum, Thymus, Dracocephalum, Melittis, Pru- 

 nella, Scutellaria, Sec. 



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