ROM. LABLAT A. 413 
2. LIPS EA. 
In honor of Augustus Lippi, a French physician. 5 
Flowers in dense, pedunculate heads ; calyx 2-parted, compressed; 
erect, membranaceous, shorter than the tube of the corolla; cor: 
funnel-shaped, limb subbilabiate, upper lip entire or emarginate; 
lower 3-lobed ; sta. 4, didynamous, included; drupe dry, thin, en- 
closed in the calyx, 2-seeded.— Shrubs or prostrate herbs, with opposit 
leaves. Heads on axillary peduncles. 
L. NopirLora, Michx. (Zapania nodiflora. Ph. and authors.) Fog-fruit. 
Glabrous, procumbent ; st. 4-angled, geniculate, simple ; vs. lanceolate or 
linear-lanceolate, acute, serrate, cuneate at base, petiolate, shorter than the pe- 
duncles.—2, On river banks, Penn. to Ia.! Ill. and La. Stems 1f or more long. 
Leaves with conspicuous veins, 1—2’ long, 3—4 as wide, petioles 3—6/’. Pe- 
duncles 2—3’. Heads ovoid or roundish. Flowers small, purplish-white. 
July, Aug. 
B. lanceolata. (Lippia lanceolata. Mz.) ws. linear-lanceolate. 
a PHRY DMA, 
Calyx cylindric, bilabiate, upper lip longer, 3-cleft, lower lip 2- 
toothed ; corolla bilabiate, upper lip emarginate, much smaller than 
the 3-lobed lower one ; seed solitary.—Herbs with opposite luvs. F's. 
opposite, spicate, deflexed in fruit. 
P. LEpTosTacHya. (Priva. Lindl.) Slender-spiked Phryma or Lopseed. 
Ivs. stalked, ovate, serrate ; spikes long and slender; cal. in fruit reflexed. 
—, Found in rocky woods, Can. and U.S. Stem 2—3f high. Leaves large, 
(3+ 6’ long), thin and coarsely toothed, on short stalks. Flowers small, oppo- 
site, light-purple, in very long and slender spikes, of which one is terminal, 
the rest opposite and axillary, each often with a pair of bracts below. After 
flowering the calyx closes upon the fruit and becomes reflexed backwards close. 
to the stem. Hence the common name lopseed. The specific name refers to 
the slender spikes. Seeds solitary, rather large, invested with a thin, membra- 
nous capsule, and enclosed in the matured calyx. July. 
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Orver XCIIL LABIATA.—Lapsiate Puanrs. 
Herbs or undershrubs with 4-cornered stems and opposite branches. 
Lvs. opposite, without stipules, replete with receptacles of aromatic oil. 
Fis. in axillary, subsessile verticillasters, sometimes as if in whorls, spikes or heads. 
Color almost always of the cyanic series, blue, purple, red, white, &c. 
Cal. tubular, regularly 5-toothed or cleft, or bilabiate, persistent. [3-cleft one. 
Cor. bilabiate (rarely regular, 5-toothed), the upper lip bifid or entire, overlapping in estivation the lower 
Sta. 4, didynamous, or sometimes only 2, the upper pair being abortive or wanting, situated on the corolla 
tube. Anth. mostly 2-celled. BS 
Ova. free, deeply 4-lobed, the single style arising from the base of the lobes, 
Fr. 1—4 hard nuts or achenia. 
Sds. erect, with little orno albumen. Embryo erect. Cotyledons flat. 
Genera 125, species 2350, chiefly natives of temperate regions, being most abundant bet i 
40° and 50° of the northern hemisphere. ; re sheet 
Properties.—This well-known family is universally pervaded by an aromatic, volatile oi i 
principle ; the former rendering them eminently tonic, cordial and stomachic; the latter, ppd af ser 
vails, febrifugal. The pennyroyal, lavender, sage, hoarhound, thyme, spearmint, peppermint, horse- 
mint, rosemary, §c., §-c., plants whose qualities are too well known to require particular mention here. 
are all members Of this useful family. Not one species is poisonous or even suspicious, 
