LABIATJE. 269 PHRYMA. 



2. V. urticifo'lia. 



Erect, subpubescent ; leaves ova.ie and ovate-lanceolate, serrate, acute, 

 petiohite ; spikes axillary and terminal, loose, filil'orin ; flowers tetrandrous. 

 About roadsides and rubbish. A weed of uninvilincr aj)pearance. 2 — 3 feet 

 high, with leaves resembling those of the nettle. Jt luis long, slender, weak, 

 green, divergent spikes remotely tilled with small, white, distinct flower.3. 

 Seeds 4. July, Aug. Per. JVcUle-leavcd Vervain. 



3. V. ANGUSTIFo'lIA. M. V. rugosa. W. 

 Erect, mostly simple ; Icaiies lanceolate-linear, tapering to the base, re- 

 motely serrate, with furrowed veins ; spikes filiform, solitary, axillary and 

 terminal. A small, hairy species, found on rocky hills and in other dry soils, 

 N. Y. Stem not more than a foot high, with narrow, rough leaves and slender 

 Hpikes of deep blue flowers. July. Fer. Pigmy Vervain. 



4. V. Auble'tia. — S;f?7j weak, assiirgent ; swiA-es solitary, imbricate, 

 long-pediinculate; divisions of the curulla eniarginate ; leaves oval, deeply 

 serrate and divided, petiolate. Native at the South. A slender and delicate 

 plant of the green-house, producino- numerous, successive clusters of rose- 

 colored 01 scarlet flowers. Stem square, viscidly pubescent, 1 — "2 feet high, 

 with opposite branches and leaves. Leaves deeply cut and toothed, rhombic- 

 oval, on short stalivs. Flowers larger than others of the genus, in corymbose 

 spikes. Brads nearly as long as the calyx, narrow, penuunent, downy as 

 well as the calyx. May. Per Ruse Verbena. 



2. PHRY'MA. 



Calyx cjlindric, bilabiate, upper iip longer, S-cleft, lower 

 lip 2-loo(hed ; corolla bilabiate, upper lip emarginale, much 

 smaller than the 3-lobed lower one; seed solitary. 



Meaning of the name unknown. Herbs with opposite leaves. F!s. oppo- 

 site, spicate. Fruit deflexed. Cal. gibbous at base on the upper side, striate. 

 Cor. ringent ; tube long as cal., middle seg. of the lower lip most prominent 



P. leptosta'chva. 



Li'.avps stalked, ovate, serrate; spikes long and slender; cahjx in fruit 

 reflexi'd. Found in rocky woods. Stem 2 — 3 feet high. Leaves large, 

 (3 — G inches long), thin and coarsely toothed, on short stalks. Flovvfers 

 small, opposite, light purple, in very long and slender spikes, of which one is 

 terminal, the rest opposite and axillary, each often with a pairot bracts below. 

 .'Vfter flowering the calyx closes upon the fruit and becomes reflexed back- 

 wards close to the stem. Hence the common name lonsccd. The specific 

 name refers to the slender spikes. Seeds solitary, rather large, invested with 

 a thin, membranous capsule and enclosed in the matured calyx. July. 

 August. Per. Lopseed. 



ORDER XCAV. LABIATI^. Ue Laliafe or Mint Tribe. 



Ca^— Tulnilar, regularly 5-tootlicd or cleft, or bilabiate, persistent. 



Cor.— Bilabiate (rarely regular, 5-toothed), the upper lip bifid or entire, overlapninir in 



restivatiou tlif lower 3-cleft one. 

 Sta. — 4. diilynainous, or Sdmetimes only 9, the upper pair being aborUve or warning, 



sitii.ilea ,m the corolla lube. Antli. musily S-celled. 

 Ora.— Free, deeply 4-lot>ed, the single style arising from the base of the lobes. 

 Fr. — 1 — 4 hard nuts or achenia. 

 '^t/i.— Erect, with little or no albumen. Embryo erect. Cotyledons flat. 



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