174 VALERIA&ACEJC. ( VALERIAN FAMILY.) 



5. O. crcrillea. (BLUETS.) Glabrous; steins erect, slender, sparingly 

 branched (3' -5' high); leaves oblong-spatuhite (3" -4" long) ; peduncles JiU- 

 form, l'-2' long; pod free to the middle; seeds rough-dotted. @ (Ilousto- 

 nia crerulea, L. Iledyotis, Hook.) Moist and grassy places ; common. May - 

 Aug. A delicate little herb, producing in spring a profusion of light-blue 

 flowers fading to white, with a yellowish eye. 



O. SERPYLLIF6LIA (Houstonia scrpyllifolia, Michx.) may probably be found 

 in the high mountains of Virginia; and O. ROTUNDIFOLIA in the southeastern 

 part of the same State. 



SUBORDER III. LOGANl^. THE LOGANIA FAMILY. 



7. miTR^OJLA, L. MITRE- WORT. 



Calyx 5-partcd. Corolla little longer than the calyx, somewhat funnel-form, 

 5-lobcd, valvate in the bud. Stamens 5, included. Ovary free from the calyx, 

 except at the base, 2-celled : styles 2, short, converging and united above ; the 

 stigmas also united. Pod projecting beyond the calyx, strongly 2-horned or 

 mitrc-shapcd, opening down the inner side of each horn, many-seeded. Annual 

 smooth herbs, with opposite leaves, small stipules between the leaves, and small 

 white flowers spiked along one side of the branches of a terminal petioled cyme. 

 (Name, a little mitre, from the shape of the pod.) 



1. M. peliolata., Torr. & Gray. Leaves thin, oblong-lanceolate, peti- 

 oled. Damp soil, from Eastern Virginia southward. Plant l-2 high. 



8. SPIOEf^IA, L. PINK-ROOT. WORM-GRASS. 



Calyx 5-parted, persistent; the lobes slender. Corolla tubular-funnel-form, 

 5-lobed at the summit, valvate in the bud. Stamens 5 : anthers linear. Style 

 slender, hairy above, jointed near the middle. Pod short, twin, laterally flat- 

 tened, separating at maturity from the base into 2 carpels, which open loculici- 

 dally, few-seeded. Chiefly herbs, with the opposite leaves united by means of 

 the stipules, and the flowers spiked in one-sided cymes. (Named for Prof. 

 Spigelius, who wrote on botany at the beginning of the 17th century.) 



1. S. ITIarihinclica, L. Stems upright, simple (6' -15' high); leaves 

 Rcssile, ovate-lanceolate, acute; spike 3 - 8-flowered ; tube of the corolla 4 times 

 the length of the calyx, the lobes lanceolate ; anthers and style exscrted. 1|. 

 Kich woods, Pennsylvania to Wisconsin and southward. June, July. Corolla 

 1^' long, crimson outside, yellowish within. A well-known officinal anthel- 

 mintic, and a showy plant. 



ORDER 57. VALERIANACETE. (VALERIAN FAMILY.) 



Herbs, with opposite leaves and no stipules ; the calyx-tube coherent with 

 the ovary, which has one fertile l-ovuled cell and two abortive or ent]>t>/ tnic* ; 

 the stamens distinct, 1-3, fewer than the lobes of the corolla, (tint inserted 

 on it* tube. Corolla tubular or funnel-form, ofteu irregular, mostly 5 



