PLANTS OF SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY. _ 66i 



Verbena angustifolia Michx. Narrow-leaved Verbena. 



Verbena angustifolia Michaux, Fl. Bor. Am. II. 14. 1803 [Tennessee and 

 Carlisle, Pa.].— Knieskern 23. — Britton 194.— Keller and Britton 271. 



Open ground; occasional throughout the State, especially in 

 the Middle district. A weed in many places, and the few Pine 

 Barren records are all to be so regarded. 



Fl. — Early June to late July and sporadically into September. 



Middle District— New Egypt, Delanco, New Lisbon (KB), Mickleton 

 (KB), Lake Church, Asbury, Sicklerville, Swedesboro (KB). 

 Pine Barrens. — Winslow Jnc, Hammonton, Absecon (S). 



LIPPIA L. 



Lippia lanceolata Michx. Fog-fruit. 



Lippia lanceolata Michaux, Fl. Bor. Am. II. 15. 1803 [near Ashley, Carolina]. 

 — Keller and Brown 272. 



Found only at Wildwood, on the coast ; a southern plant push- 

 ing north also along the Susquehanna Valley in Pennsylvania. 

 Fl. — Late July into September. 

 Coast Strip. — Wildwood. 



Family LABIAT.^. Mints, etc. 

 Key to the Species. 



a. Corolla five parted, lobes nearly or quite equal, not two-lipped. 

 b. Flowers blue, 1-3 on terminal or axillary pedicels. 



c. Flowers solitary at the ends of the branches or axillary branch- 

 lets 12-18 mm. long, stamens much exserted. Plant 2-6 dm. high. 

 d. Leaves oblong or lanceolate. Trichostema dichotomum, p. 664 

 dd. Leaves linear. T. lineare, p. 664 



cc. Flowers axillary, on 1-3 flowered pedicels, 4-6 mm. long. Plant 

 2-5 dm. high. Viscid pubescent. Isanthus, p. 664 



bb. Flowers purpHsh or white, often very small, in dense axillary clus- 

 ters, or forming a terminal interrupted spike. 

 c. Plants strongly odorous, anther-bearing stamens 4. Mentha, p. 673 

 cc. Plants not odorous, anther-bearing stamens 2. Lycopus, p. 672 



aa. Corolla very irregular, apparently only one-lipped, the upper lip very 

 short and inconspicuous stamens exserted, flowers pink or purplish. 

 h. Leaves lanceolate to ovate, glabrous' or sparingly appressed pubes- 

 cent. Teucriiim canadense, p. 663 

 bb. Leaves narrower, densely appressed pubescent and papillose, plant 

 shorter and stiffer. T. canadense littorale, p. 663 

 aaa. Corolla distinctly two-lipped. 



b. Calyx with a protuberance on the upper side. Scutellaria, p. 664 



