LABIATE. (mint FAMILY.) old 



5. P. muticum, Pers. Smooth or tomentose ; stem corymbosely branched ; 

 leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute, senate, rounded or slightly cordate at 

 the base, sessile or short-pctioled, the uppermost whitened ; cymes small, com- 

 pact, corymbose, minutely hoary-tomentose ; calyx-teeth short, triangular-ovate, 

 obtuse. — Dry soil, Florida to Mississippi, and northward. Aug. and Sept. — 

 Stem 1° - 2° high. Leaves V-2' long. 



■*-*-■>- Cymes capitate, in compact corymbose clusters : bracts shorter than the 

 floivers : stem and rigid entire leaves smootliish. 



6. P. laneeolatum, Pursh. Stem branched ; leaves lanceolate or linear- 

 lanceolate, acute, rounded at the base ; cymes numerous, pubescent ; bracts 

 ovate-lanceolate ; calyx-teeth short, triangular. — Dry soil in the upper districts. 

 Aug. and So])t. — Stem 2° high. Leaves l'-2' long. 



7. P. linifolium, Pursh. Stem branched ; leaves very numerous, linear, 

 sessile ; cymes smootliish ; bracts linear, acute ; calyx-teeth lanceolate-subulate, 

 rigid, acute. — Dry soil, Florida to Mississippi, and northward. Aug. and Sept. 

 — Stem 2° high. 



8. P. nudum, Nutt. Smooth ; stem simple or corymbose at the summit, 

 straight ; leaves sessile, ovate-oblong, obtuse, rounded at the base ; cymes 

 smooth ; exterior bracts narrow-lanceolate, the inner short, subulate ; calyx- 

 teeth short, triangular-lanceolate, and, like the corolla, pubescent. — Low pine 

 barrens. Dale County, Alabama, to the mountains of North Carolina. Aug. 

 and Sept. — Stem 2° high. Leaves ^' - 1' long. 



-I- -t- -I- -I- Cymes axillary and terminal, large, dense-flowered : bracts ciliale. 



9. P. montanum, Michx. Stem slender, smooth, simple or branched ; 

 leaves smooth, ovate-lanceolate, serrate, acute, tapering into a short petiole, the 

 lowest rounded at the base ; cymes globose, the upper ones closely sessile ; 

 bracts numerous, ciliate ; the exterior ovate, very acute, as long as the flowers, 

 the inner ones linear ; calyx-teeth short, acute ; ovary bearded. — Mountains of 

 North Carolina. July and Aug. — Stem 1° - 3° high. Leaves 2'-3' long. 



7. COLLINSONIA, L. Horse-Balm. 



Calyx obovate, enlarged and deflexed in fruit, 2-lipped ; the upper lip flat- 

 tened, truncate, 3-toothed, the lower 2-cleft. Corolla funnel-shaped, 2-lipped, 

 dilated at the throat ; the four upper lobes equal, the lowest larger, declining, 

 toothed or fimbriate. Stamens 2 or 4, long-exserted, spreading : anther-cells 

 diverging. Nutlets smooth. — Strong-scented perennial herbs. Leaves large, 

 coarsely serrate, dotted beneath. Flowers yellowish, solitary, opposite, in 

 racemes or panicles. Petioles tumid at the base. 



* Fertile stamens 2. 



1. C. Canadensis, L. Nearly smooth; leaves ovate or oblong-ovate, 



acuminate, sharply serrate, acute, rounded or cordate at the base, long-petioled, 



the uppermost smaller, sessile ; panicle elongated ; bracts minute, very acute ; 



flowering calyx very small, the upper lip much shorter than the lower, with 



