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white flowers ; bracts mucronate or jtointless. — Kiver-baiiks, E. Vcnu. to Minn., 

 soulli to Fla. ami Tex. July -Sept. 



2. L. cuneifolia, Steud. Diffusely branched from a woody base, pro- 

 cumbent (not cic(/tiii(j), inhiuteli/ cunesceiit (hroiujhont ; leaies rif/id, cuneate- 

 linear, incisely 2-G-tuotlicd above the middle; peduncles axillary, mostly 

 shorter than the leaves ; bracts rigid, broadly cuneate, abrupt/ 1/ acuminate ; corolla 

 white (?). — Plains, W. Neb. to central Kan. and Arizona. 



3. CALLICARPA, L. 



Calyx 4-5-toothed, short. Corolla tubular bell-sha])ed, 4-.5-lobed, nearly 

 regular. Stamens 4, nearly equal, exserted ; anthers opening at the apex. Style 

 slender, thickened upward. Fruit a small berry -like druj)e, with 4 nutlets. — 

 Shrubs, with scurfy pubescence, and small (lowers in axillary cymes. (Name 

 formed of kclWos, beauti/, and Kapnoi, fruit.) 



1. C. Americana, L. (Fuencu MuLniiUUV.) Leaves-ovate-oblong with 

 a tapering base, acuminate, toothed, whitish beneath; cymes n»any-flowered; 

 calyx obscurely 4-toothed ; corolla bluish; fruit violet-color. — Rich soil, Va. 

 to Tex., thence north to Mo. May -July. 



4. PHRYMA, L Lopsked. 



Calyx cylindrical, 2-lipped; the upper lip of 3 bristle-awl-shaped tterh; the 

 lower shorter, 2-tO()tlied. Corolla 2-lipped ; upper lip notched ; the lower nmch 

 larger, 3-lobed. Stamens included. Style slender; stigma 2-lobed. F'ruit dry, 

 in the bottom of the calyx, oblong, 1-celled and 1-seeded. Seed orthotropous. 

 Cotyledons convolute round their axis. — A perennial herl), with slender branch- 

 ing stems, and coarsely toothed ovate leaves, the lower long-petiolcd ; the small 

 opposite flowers in elongated and slender terminal spikes, strictly reHexed in 

 fruit. Corolla purplish or rose-color. (Derivation of the name unknown.) 



1. P. Leptost^chya, L. riant 2-.3° high; leaves 3-5' long, thin; 

 calyx strongly ribbed and closed in fruit, the long .sientier teetii hooked at the 

 tip. — Moist and open woods, common. (IC. Asia.) 



Ordkr 82. LABIATyli:. (.Mint Family.) 



Cliiejlij herbs, icith s(]uare stems, opposite aromatic lewes, more or less 2- 

 lippeil corolla, didynamous or diandrous stamens, and a deeply A-lobed ovary, 

 which forms in fruit 4 little seed-like nutlets or achenes^ surroundiny the base 

 of the single style in the bottom of the persistent calyx, each filed icith a sin- 

 f/le erect seed. — Nutlets smooth or barely rougliish and fixed by their 

 base, except in the first tribe. Albumen mostly none. I'mbryo straight 

 (excei)t in Scutellaria); radicle at the base of the fruit. Upper lij) of 

 the corolla 2-lobed or sometimes entire; the lower 3-lobed. Stamens 

 inserted (m the tube of the corolla. Style 2-lol)ed at the apex. Flowers 

 axillary, chiefly in cymose clusters, these often aggregated in terminal 

 spikes or racemes. F^oliage mostly dotted with small glands containing a 

 volatile oil, upon which deju-nds the warnjih and aroma of the plants of 

 this large and well-known family. 



