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27. SALVIA. Linn. 



Calyx subcampanulate, 2-lipped ; upper lip 3-toothed ; 

 lower bifid. Corol ringent. Filaments 2, fertile, bifid, one 

 lobe ascending with a dimidiate anther, the other sterile. 



Diandria. Monogynia. 



1. & lyrata Linn. .- stem nearly leafless, retrosely pubescent ; radi- 

 cle leaves lyrate-dentate ; upper lip of the corol very short. 



HAB. Woods. Can. to Car. June. 11. Stem about a foot 

 high, densely covered with reflected hairs. Leaves mostly radi- 

 cal, more or less lyrate or pinnatifid, very obtuse. Flowers blue, 

 about 6 in a whorl. 



2. & daytoni Ell. : leaves cordate- ovate, sinuate, toothed, rugose ; 

 teeth of the upper lip of the calyx connivent. Salvia verbenacea Muhl. 



HAB. Woods. Penn. to Car. June Oct. U.Stem erect, 

 812 inches high. Flowers in whorls, violet. 



3. S. urticifolia Linn. : viscous and villous ; leaves ovate-oblong, 

 toothed, base narrowed into a petiole ; calyx 3-cleft, the upper seg- 

 ment 3-toothed. 



HAB. Mountains. N. J. to Car. June. L. Leaves ovate, very 

 pubescent. Flowers blue, viscous, in remote whorls. 



ORDER XCL VERBENACEA. Brown. Lind. 



Calyx tubular, persistent, inferior. Corol hypogynous, mo- 

 nopetalous, tubular, deciduous, limb usually irregular. Sta- 

 mens usually 4, didynamous, seldom equal, sometimes only 2. 

 Ovary 2 4-celled ; ovules erect or pendulous, solitary or 

 twin ; style 1 ; stigma bifid or undivided. Fruit a drupe or 

 berry. Seeds erect or pendulous ; albumen none or very thin ; 

 embryo erect. 



Trees, shrubs or herbs. Leaves generally opposite, simple 

 or compound, without stipules. 



1. VERBENA. Linn. 



Calyx 5-cleft. Corol funnel-form; limb unequal, 5-cleft. 

 Stamens 4, dydynamous. Pericarp thin, evanescent. Seeds 

 4. Flowers paniculate-spiked. Didynamia* Angiospermia, 



* Leaves laciniate. 



1. V. hastata Linn. : erect, tall ; leaves lanceolate, acuminate, 

 sharply serrate ; lower ones lobed or subhastate ; spikes filiform, erect, 

 panicled, somewhat imbricate ; flowers tetrandrous. 



HAB. Low grounds. Can, to Geor. W. to Miss. July, Aug. 



