N. ORD.—LABIATAs. 117 
Tribe.—SATUREIEA. 
GENUS.—LYCOPUS,* LINN. 
SEX. SYST.—DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
LY¥toOP es: 
BUGLE-WEED. 
SYN.—LYCOPUS VIRGINICUS, LINN.; L. UNIFLORUS, MICHX.; L. PUMI- 
LUS, VAHL.; L. MACROPHYLLUS, BENTH.; L. VIRGINICUS, VAR. PAU- 
CIFLORUS, BENTH.; L. VIRGINICUS, VAR. MACROPHYLLUS, GRAY. 
COM. NAMES.—BUGLE-WEED, WATER HOREHOUND, GIPSY-WEED, 
GIPSY-WORT, PAUL’S BETONY, WATER BUGLE; (FR.) LYCOPE DE 
VIRGINIE ; (GER.) VIRGINISHER WOLFSFUSS. 
A TINCTURE OF THE WHOLE HERB LYCOPUS VIRGINICUS, L. 
Description. —This common perennial weed usually attains a growth of from 
Stem erect, obtusely angled, stoloniferous, and glabrous or very 
filiform, often tuberous at the apex, produced from 
Leaves ovate or oblong-lanceolate, coarsely ser- 
rate especially in the middle, acute at both ends, and tapering at the base into a 
short petiole. Juflorescence in sessile, axillary, capitate-verticillastrate glomerules ; 
_bracts very short, resembling the calyx-teeth ; lowers whitish or tending toward 
purple. Calyx campanulate, only slightly shorter than the corolla, and naked in 
the throat; /eeth 4 to 5, ovate or lance-ovate, obtuse or slightly acutish, 3-nerved. 
Corolla bell-shaped, small, short, and hardly irregular ; lobes 4, nearly equal, the 
upper entire and broader than the others, but neither galeate or ereiee 
mens inserted, straight, erect, equidistant, only two furnished with anthers ; azthers 
with two parallel cells. Séy/e bulbous at the base, bifurcating at the apex, the inner 
surfaces of the lobes stigmatic. vw composed of 4 3-sided nutlets, oe at 
the top and acute at the base, the lateral margins thickened, the superior q Ore 
nated; areola basal, small. : os : 
6 to 24 inches. 
slightly pubescent ; s¢o/ons long, 
the base of the summer stems. 
History and Habitat.—The Virginian Bugle-weed is nes ape to — 
America, where it ranges from Labrador to F lorida, Missouri, ne HOF | ce taesate 
to British Columbia and Oregon. att grows in low, damp, and a y wanes see 
blossoms from July to September. — This is one of the neces Z a. 
esque to vagarize, he disported with it to such an ae an was. to 
yield him 5 new species and 16 varieties a some of w : aa 
species.” i ee as ce 
even bedeemed 
