516 VERBENINALES 
length, the longer ones extending beyond the corolla tube. Nutlets 4, 
rough. 
E. vulgare, L. (Fig. 3, pl. 129.) Biur Weep. ViPEr’s Buctoss. 
Somewhat branching, 1 to 2 ft. high. Flowers showy, blue, varying to - 
reddish-purple; corolla about an inch long, lobes unequal. Leaves lance- 
shaped, pointed at apex. A weed in fields and waste places. June-July- 
Order VI—VERBENINALES. Order of the Vervanes 
Flowers mostly irregular. Carpel or nutlet usually containing 
2 seeds or rarely 1 seed. Leaves mostly opposite or in whorls. 
Fruit mostly dry carpels. Flowers not in one-sided spikes. In 
other respects the characters of this order are similar to the pre- 
ceding (of which this is a sub-order, according te Engler, but 
here advanced to an order in the interest of simplicity and con- 
venience). 
Nutlets 1- to 2-seeded. 
Corolla 2-lipped. 
Ovary not lobed, 2- to 4-celled . . VERBENACEAE 
Ovary 4-lobed around the style, the lobes ripening 
into I-seeded nutlets . . . . . . LABIATAE 
Nutlets several seeded. 
Flowers regular, stamens 5; ovary 2-celled SOLANACEAE 
Flowers more or less irregular, mostly 2-lipped; stamens 
2 ort). . . . . SCHROPHULARIACEAE 
Flowers 2 annens age or water plants without leaves 
or with leaves, mostly thread-like at the root 
; LENTIBULARIACEAE 
lowers 2 Mppell ‘ait nearly destitute of green, para- 
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Flowers trumpet-shaped, somewhat irregular; vines and 
PROCH. co )) is: <a1, bs eso ae Brie BIGONIACEAE 
Corolla 5-lobed, nearly regular, 2-lipped, stamens 4, 2 
long, 2 short; ovary 2-celled, the cells several seeded 
ACANTHACEAE 
Corolla nearly cylindric, 2-lipped; ovary 1-celled, 1- 
seeded. Calyx in fruiting season reflexed to side of 
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