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THE SAGE FAMILY. 



10. Common Bugle. 



3. Peppermint. 



19. Betony. 



20. Long-leavedWound- 



WORT. 



** Leaves oblong or lanceolate. 

 Flowers fine blue or deep violet (occasionally but rarely white), 

 flowers in a short, dense, cylindrical spike, with broad 

 bracts under each whorl. Filaments forked, 



the anther on the inner prong 24. Sele-heaI/ 



Stem with long procumbent branches, spreading from 

 the base ; upper leaves in cross pairs, render- 

 ing the inflorescence pyramidal while young. 

 Upper part of the plant with a purplish -blue 



tinge 



Flowers red or reddish-pink, never blue or violet, in 

 elongated and cylindrical spikes. 

 Plant glabrous, or nearly so ; leaves on short stalks 

 Plant covered with hairs, which often make it coarse and rough 

 Lower leaves on long stalks, and all of them 

 crenate ; lowest whorl of the spike of the 

 flowers considerably below the upper ones 

 Stem few-leaved, one to two feet high .... 

 Leaves with very short stalks. Stem two to three 

 feet high. Root tuberous. Flowers about 



sixteen in a whorl 



B. 

 Flowers chiefly or entirely in the axils of the principal leaves ; never exclusively 



in terminal heads. 

 Flowers fine blue or deep violet (rarely white). 

 Flowers about three in each axil. 



Leaves heart-shaped or kidney-shaped, crenate, on 



long stalks, hairy. Plant with long trailing 



branches, and strong scented. (Fig. 14:0.) . . 



Leaves narrow-ovate, scarcely more than half an 



inch long, slightly toothed. Calyx two-lipped 



Flowers in axillary pairs, and all turned one way. 



Loaves ovate-lanceolate, nearly sessile, slightly 



toothed. Plant scentless 25. Blue Skull-cap. 



Flowers red, pink, or pale lilac, never fine blue or deep violet. 

 Leaves entire, or very nearly so. 



Flowers in dense whorls. Plant prostrate, much 



branched ^^ 



Flowers only one or two in each axil 20. 



Leaves serrate. 



Upper leaves closely sessile, stem-clasping, five- 

 lobed; lower ones on very long petioles, 



obtusely crenate 1<^- 



Leaves all stalked. 



Corolla scarcely longer than the cnlyx. Plant 



seldom a foot high 22. 



Corolla twice as long as the calyx. 



Stem two feet high. Flowers all turned one 



way. Plant f(ctid 11. Black Houehound. 



Sterne much branched, seldom a foot high. 



Plant aromatic ». Cornfikld Mint. 



23. Ground-ivy. 



7. Basil Thyme. 



Pennyroyal. 

 Small Scull-cap. 



Henbit. 



Field Wound-wort. 



