WHITE OR WHITISH FLOWERS 



I. LEAVES OPPOSITE. 

 1. Leaves opposite, stem 4-sided. 



White Vervain (Verbetia ur tic aef olid). Vervain family. 

 Ht. few ft. ; flowers small in long slim spikes; 

 leaves with stalks, pointed, toothed. Waste places. 

 Early summer. 



Mountain Mint (Pycnanlhemum lanceolatum) . Mint 

 family. 

 Av. ht. 2 ft.; stem stifif and branching; flowers 

 small in terminal clusters, white with purple dots; 

 leaves very narrowly lance-shaped, without stalks, 

 opposite. Fields. Summer. 



Fig. 28. 



Water- horehound (Lycopus sinuatus). 



Water-horehound {Lycopus sinuatus). Mint family. 

 Ht. I ft. or over; flowers small in axillary whorls; 

 leaves with short stalks, upper without stalks, all 

 pointed, irregularly toothed; stem acutely 4-angled 

 (Gray). Common. Wet places. Early summer- 

 autumn. 



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