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21. STACH'YS, Tourn. HEDGE-NETTLE. 



1. S. palus'tris, L. Stem 2-3 feet high, 4-aiigled, the 

 angles beset with stiff reflexed hairs or bristles. Leaves 

 sessile, or the lower short-petioled, oblong or ovate-lanceo- 

 late, crenately serrate, downy. Calyx hispid. 'Upper lip 

 of the corolla pubescent. Wet grounds. 



2. S. as'pera, Michx. Taller than the last, the leaves 

 nearly all distinctly petioled. Calyx mostly glabrous. 

 Corolla glabrous throughout. Wet grounds. 



22. LEONU'RVS, L. MOTHERWORT. 



L. Cardi'aea, L. (COMMON MOTHERWORT.) Stem tall. 

 Leaves long-petioled, the lower palmately lobed, the upper 

 3-cleft. Upper lip of the corolla bearded. Near dwellings. 

 23. LA'MIUM, L. DEAD-NETTLE. 



1. L. amplexieau'le, L. Leaves rounded, deeply cren- 

 ate- toothed, the upper ones clasping. In gardens in some 

 places. 



2. L. purpu'reum, L. Leaves rounded or oblong, heart- 

 shaped, crenate- toothed, all petioled. A garden escape. 



3. L. macula' tum, L. Taller. Leaves ovate, heart- 

 shaped, often with a white spot above. Flowers rather 

 large, purplish, with hairs at the base inside. A garden 

 escape. 



24. ISALLO'TA, L. FETID HOREHOUND. 



B. nigra, L. (BLACK HOREHOUND.) Leaves ovate, toothed. 

 Calyx- teeth longer than the tube of the corolla. S. W. 

 Ontario. 



ORDER LXIV. BORRAGINA'CE^l. (BORAGE FAMILY.) 

 Herbs, with a deeply 4-lobed ovary, forming 4 seed-like 

 nutlets, as in the last Order, but the corolla is regularly 5- 

 lobed, with 5 stamens inserted upon its tube. 



Synopsis of the Genera. 

 * Corolla without any scales in the throat. 



1. E'cliium. Corolla with a funnel-form tube and a spi'eading border 

 of 5 somewhat unequal lobes. Stamens exserted, unequal. Flow- 

 ers bright blue, with a purplish tinge, in racemed clusters. Plant 

 bristly. 



