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white flowers ; bracts mucronate or pointless. — River-banks, E. Penn. to Minn., 

 south to Fla. and Tex. July - Sept. 



2. L. cuneifolia, Steud. Diffusely branched from a woody base, pra 

 cumbent {not creeping), minutely canescent throughout; leaves rigid, cuneate 

 linear, incisely 2-6-toothed above the middle; peduncles axillary, mostly 

 shorter than the leaves ; bracts rigid, broadly cuneate, abruptly acuminate ; corolla 

 white (^). — Plains, W. Nebc to central Kan. and Arizona. 



3. CALLICARPA, L. 



Calyx 4 - 5-toothed, short. Corolla tubular bell-shaped, 4-5-lobed, nearly 

 regular. Stamens 4, nearly equal, exserted ; anthers opening at the apex. Style 

 slender, thickened upward. Fruit a small berry-like drupe, with 4 nutlets. — 

 Shrubs, with scurfy pubescence, and small flowers in axillary cymes. (Name 

 formed of kclWos, beauty, and Kapiros, fruit.) 



1. C. Americana, L. (French Mulberry.) Leaves ovate-oblong with 

 a tapering base, acuminate, toothed, whitish beneath; cymes many-flowered; 

 calyx obscurely 4-toothed ; corolla bluish; fruit violet-color. — Rich soil, Va. 

 to Tex., thence north to Mo. May- July. 



4. PHRYMA, L. Lopseed. 



Calyx cylindrical, 2-lipped ; the upper lip of 3 bristle-awl-shaped teeth ; the 

 lower shorter, 2-toothed. Corolla 2-lipped ; upper lip notched ; the lower much 

 larger, 3-lubed. Stamens included. Style slender ; stigma 2-lobed. Fruit dry, 

 in the bottom of the calyx, oblong, 1-celled and 1-seeded. Seed orthotropous. 

 Cotyledons convolute round their axis. — A perennial herb, with slender branch- 

 ing stems, and coarsely toothed ovate leaves, the lower long-petioled ; the small 

 opposite flowers in elongated and slender terminal spikes, strictly reflexed in 

 fruit. Corolla purplish or rose-color. (Derivation of the name unknown.) 



1. P. Leptostachya, L. Plant 2-3° high; leaves 3-5' long, thin; 

 calyx strongly ribbed and closed in fruit, the long slender teeth hooked at the 

 tip. — Moist and open woods, common. (E. Asia.) 



Order 82. LABIAT^E. (Mint Family.) 



Chiefly herbs, ivith square stems, opposite aromatic leaves, more or less 2- 

 lipped corolla, didynamous or cUandrous stamens, and a deeply A-lobed ovary, 

 which forms in fruit 4 little seed-like nutlets or achenes^ surrounding the base 

 of the single style in the bottom of the persistent calyx, each filed with a sin- 

 gle erect seed. — Xutlets smooth or barely roughish and fixed by their 

 base, except in the first tribe. Albumen mostly none. Embryo straight 

 (except in Scutellaria) ; radicle at the base of the fruit. Upper lip of 

 the corolla 2-lobed or sometimes entire; the lower 3-lobed. Stamens* 

 inserted on the tube of the corolla. Style 2-lobed at the apex. Flowers 

 axillary, chiefly in cymose clusters, these often aggregated in terminal 

 spikes or racemes. Foliage mostly dotted with small glands containing a 

 volatile oil, upon which depends the warmth and aroma of the plants of 

 this large and well-known family. 

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