SCROPHULARIACEJE. (FIGWORT FAMILY.) 311 
1. HI* pratensc, L. Var. AmericAnum, Benth. Flowers re¬ 
mote, one-sided; floral leaves lanceolate, the upper, or all of them, 
beset with a few teeth at the base; lobes of the smooth calyx about 
half the length of the tube of the corolla (yellowish, sometimes tinged 
with purple). — Dry copses, common. June, July. 
Order 70. VERBENACEiE. (Vervain Family.) 
Herbs or shrubs, with opposite leaves, more or less 2-lip¬ 
ped or irregular corolla, and didynamous stamens, the 1-4- 
celled fruit, dry or drupaceous, usually splitting when ripe 
into as many \-seeded indehiscent nutlets; differing from 
the following order in the ovary not being 4-lobed, the style 
therefore terminal. — Seeds with little or no albumen; the 
radicle of the straight embryo pointing to the base of the 
fruit. 
Synopsis, 
1. Verbena. Calyx 5-toothed. Border of the corolla 5-cleft. 
2. Phryma. Calyx and corolla 2-lipped. Fruit 1-celled, 1-seeded. 
3. Lippia. Calyx and corolla 2-lipped. Fruit 2-celled, 2-seeded. 
1. VERBENA, L. Vervain. 
Calyx tubular, 5-toothed, one of the teeth often shorter than 
the others. Corolla tubular, often curved, salver-form, the border 
somewhat unequally 5-cleft. Stamens included ; the upper pair 
occasionally without anthers. Style slender : stigma capitate. 
Fruit splitting into 4 seed-like nutlets. — Flowers sessile, in sin¬ 
gle or often panicled spikes, bracted. (The Latin name for any 
sacred herb : derivation obscure.) —The species present numer¬ 
ous spontaneous hybrids. 
1. V, liastata, L. (Blue Vervain.) Tali'; leaves lanceo¬ 
late or oblong-lanceolate , taper-pointed, cut-serrate, petioled , the lower 
often lobed and sometimes halbert-form at the base ; spikes linear, erect, 
densely flowered , corymbed or panicled. If (V. paniculkta, Lam., 
when the leaves are not lobed.) — Low and waste grounds, common. 
July - Sept. — Flowers purplish-blue. 
2. V. lirticiiolia, L. (Nettle-leaved Vervain.) Rather 
tall; leaves oval or oblong-ovate, acute , coarsely serrate , petioled j spikes 
very slender, at length much elongated with the flowers remote , loosely 
panicled. )J. — Old fields and road-sides, common : introduced ? 
