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VERBENACEiE. (VERVAIN FAMILY.) 
July - Sept. — Roughish-hairy, with slender spreading branches : 
flowers white, very small. 
3 spuria, L. (Cut-leaved Vervain.) Loosely branch¬ 
ed , diffuse ; leaves sessile , pinnatijid, the lobes cut-toothed; spikes very 
slender , with the flowers at length remote , loosely panicled : upper sta¬ 
mens imperfect. (2) © — Sandy fields and road-sides, rather rare. 
Aug.-Oct. — Flowers very small, purplish-blue or rose-color. 
4. V. an gusti folia, Michx. (Narrow-leaved Vervain.) 
Dwarf, simple or sparingly branched ; leaves linear-lanceolate , taper- 
in & to the base, remotely toothed; spikes solitary , the flowers at first 
crowded. U — Dry or sandy fields, chiefly southward. July - Sept. 
— Plant 6'-12' high; the purplish-blue flowers larger than m No. 1. 
5. V. stricta, Vent. (Hoary Vervain.) Downy with soft 
whitish hairs; stem nearly simple; leaves sessile, obovate or o ong, 
serrate; spikes thick and very densely flowered, somewhat clue tore> • 
H - River-banks, Ohio and westward. Aug. — Plant 1 ■ 
flowers blue, larger than in No. 1. 
2. PHRYMA, L. Lopseed. 
Calyx cylindrical, 2-lipped ; the upper lip of 3 bristle-awl-shap 
ed teeth ; the lower shorter, 2-toothed. Corolla 2-lipped , upper 
lip notched ; the lower much larger, 3-lobed. Stamens include • 
Style slender : stigma 2-lobed. Fruit oblong, 1-celled an 
seeded ! — A perennial herb, with slender branching stems, ant 
coarsely toothed ovate leaves, the lower long-petioled ; the sm 
opposite flowers in elongated and slender terminal spikes, re e/ 
in fruit and bent close against the common peduncle. oro a 
purplish or pale rose-color. (Derivation of the name unknown 
1. P. Leptostacliya, L. — Rich copses, common. Juh.- 
Plant 2? - 2P high : leaves 3' - 5' long, thin. 
3. I.! P PI A, L. (ZapIhia, Juss.) 
Calyx often flattened, 2-4-toothed, splitting into 2 lips- 
rolla strongly 2-lipped : upper lip notched ; the lower muc 
ger, 3-lobed. Stamens included. Style slender: stigma o 
ly capitate. Fruit 2-celled, 2-seeded. (Dedicated to LtpP > 
Italian naturalist and traveller.) 
1. Li. Iiodiilora, Michx. (Fog-fruit.) Procumbent or. 
ing, perennial; leaves wedge-ovate or oblanceolate, serra e ^ ^ 
peduncles axillary, slender, bearing solitary closely bracte * ea 
bluish-white flowers. (Zapania nodifldra and Z. lanceolata, cr 
River-banks, Pennsylvania and westward. July-Sept. 
