BIANDRIA. MONOCYNIA^ 15 



celled, many-seeded; receptacle of the seed, cen- 

 tral, unconnected. 



Hapitu^. Leaves radical, stellately disposed, thick, 

 soft, and as it were greasy to the touch, composed of an 

 alrriost diaphunous/ distinctly cellular parenchymatous 

 substance; scapes l-flowei-ed; fiowers inverted. Nearly 

 allied to the precedmg genus. 



Species. 1. F. elatior. 2. hUea. 3. pumila. 4. acuti' 

 folia. 



Obs. The American species have the corolla 5-cleft, 

 with all the seg-mc nts 2-lobed or emarginate; in ti^.e F. 

 kitea the corolla is campanulaie and yellow, with each of 

 the lobes bidentate Of 11 species enumerated in tiiis 

 genus, the United States have 4, Peru 1, and the other 6^ 

 are confined to the al])ine and colder niorassy repons of 

 Kurope. The Xoiiii American species grow nearly on a 

 !e\cl with the ocean, in moist pine barrens. 



LABTATiE. 



Ill Four naked seeds, 



21. LYCOPUS. L. (Water-horehound.) 



Calix tubular 5-cIeft (or S-toothed, acute or 

 acuminate). Corolla tubular, 4-lobed, nearly 

 equal; the upper .segment broader and emargi- 

 nate. Stamina iVistant, Seeds 4, retuse. 



Flowers small, axillary, crowded, verticillate and ses- 

 sile, generally bibracteate; leaves toothed orsinuated. In 

 the L. Virginicus the calix is 4-cleft and shorter than the 

 seed; and there are the rudiments of 2 abortive stamens 

 in the L. vulgaris. 



Species. l.L. vulgaris? 2. Virginiciis. Z.pimuhis. 4. ob- 

 timf alius. 5. exaltatus. 6. aiigustifolius. 7- sinuatus. Are 

 not several of these varieties? ( With the exception of the 

 i. vulgaris this genus is thus far entirely confined to the 

 United States.) 



CUNILA. L, (Mountain Dittany.) 



Cflto cylindrical, 10-striate, 5-toothed. Co- 

 rolla ringent, with the upper lip erect, flat and 

 emarginate. Stamens 2-sterile. The 2 fertilii 

 stamens with the style exscrted nearly twice 



.:>0 



