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DIDYNAMU ANGIOSPERMU, 



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1. NODIFLORA. 



Z. foliis obovatis^ 

 cimeiformibiisjsupejne 



serratis 



Leaves 



ob ovate. 



cuneate, serrate near 



spicis capi 



the 



summit 



tato-coiiicis, solitariis, 

 elongato-pediinculatis: 



spikes 



caule 

 pente 



herbaceo 



re 



solitary, on long pe 

 duncles, forming coni- 

 cal heads ; stem her^ 

 baceous, creeping. 



Pursh 2. p. 417. 



Verbena nodiflora. Sp. pi. ], p. 117, , 

 Anon, repens. Walt. p. i CO. 

 Lippia nodillora. Mich. 2. p. 15. 



Stem procumbentj branching, creeping, somewhat scatirous. Zcaves 

 opposite, glabrous, attenuated at base to a very short petiole, 

 closely imbricated in small oval or cylindric heads, on axillary peduncles, 

 4—5 mches long. Bractea broad, ovate, with a short point scarious and 

 purple along the margin. ^ • ^ ■ "- 



Flowers 



rmic 



sma er tlian the bractea, white and hairy along the back. CoroUa white, 



Muall, the tube as long as the bracteas, border 2 lipped, the upper small, 



ejnargmate, reflexed, the inferior 3-cIeft. Stamens very short in the tube 



PI tlie corolla. S(j/Ie very short. Siigma capitate. The /r«/^ 



somewhat compressed, divisible, covered with a persistent bractea and ca- 

 lyi. Seeds 2. 



I have described this plant as it appears to me. It will be perceived 

 that my description, in some respects, and especially in the calyx, dow 

 iiot agree with the commonly received character. 



Grows in almost all soils, prefering those that are damp. 



•flowers throup-li the whnio sumvnov 





2. Lanceolata, 



Z. foliis lineari-lan 

 ceolatis argute serra 

 tis; spicis capitato-co 



iiicis,solitariis,eIonga 

 to pedunculatis : caul( 



herb 



pente 



Pursh2.p.418. 



l^ippia la|iccolata, Blich. 2. p. l5 



Leaves linear lan- 



ceolate 

 rate 



a 



5 



on 



cutely ser- 

 spikes solitary, 



1 ong 



peduncles 

 forming conical heads 

 stem 



herb ace 0U5 



9 



3 



creeping 



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