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LABIATE. (MINT 



2. BALLOTA. Calyx somewhat funnel-form, the 6 -10-teeth united at the base into a spread- 

 ing border. Nutlets roundish at the top. Upper lip of the corolla erect. 



J. PIILOMIS. Calyx tubular, the 6 short and broad teeth abruptly awned Upper lip of the 

 corolla arched. 



1. TEUCRIUM, L. GERMANDER. 



Calyx 5-toothed. Corolla with the 4 upper lobes nearly equal, cblong, turned 

 forward, so that there seems to be no upper lip ; the lower one much larger. 

 Stamens 4, exserted from the deep cleft between the 2 upper lobes of the corolla : 

 anther-cells confluent. (Named for Teucer, king of Troy.) 



1. T. Caiiadeiise, L. (AMERICAN GERMANDER. WOOD SAGE.) 

 Herbaceous, downy; stem erect (l-3 high) ; leaves ovate-lanceolate, serrate, 

 rounded at the base, short-petioled, hoary underneath ; the floral scarcely longer 

 than the oblique unequally-toothed calyx ; whorls about 6-flowered, crowded in 

 a long and simple wand-like spike, ty Low grounds; not rare. July. 

 Corolla pale purple, rarely white. 



AJOGA CHAMJEPITHYS, L., the YELLOW BUGLE of Europe, gathered in 

 Virginia by Clayton, has not been noticed since. 



2. TRICHOSTEMA, L. Bn E CURLS. 



Calyx bell-shaped, oblique, deeply 5-cleft ; the 3 upper teeth elongated and 

 partly united, the 2 lower very short. Corolla 5-lobed ; the lobes narrowly ob- 

 long, declined, nearly equal in length ; the 3 lower more or less united. Sta- 

 mens 4, with very long capillary filaments, exserted much beyond the corolla, 

 carved : anther-cells divergent and at length confluent. Low annuals, some- 

 what clammy-glandular and balsamic, branched, with entire leaves, and mostly 

 solitary 1 -flowered pedicels terminating the branches, becoming lateral by the 

 production of axillary branchlets, and the flower appearing to be reversed, 

 namely, the short teeth of the calyx upward, c. Corolla blue, varying to pur- 

 ple, rarely white, small. (Name composed of 6pi, hair, and orr^a, stamen, 

 from the capillary filaments.) 



1. T. <ii< liotomtllll, L, (BA.STARD PENNYROYAL.) Leaves lance- 

 oblong or rhombic-lanceolate, rarely lance-linear, short-petioled Sandy fields, 

 New England to Kentucky, and southward, chiefly eastward. July -Sept. 

 The curved stamens ' long. 



2. T. lineare, Nutt. Leaves linear, nearly smooth. Sandy pine ban-ens 

 of New Jersey, and southward. Rather taller and less forked than the last 

 (8' - 12 high), the corolla larger. 



3. IS A ft Til US, Michx. FALSE PENNYROYAL. 



Calyx bell-shaped, 5-lobcd, equal, enlarged in fruit, Corolla little longer th*a 

 the calyx ; the border bell-shaped, with 5 nearly equal and obovate spreading 

 lobes. Stamens 4, slightly didynamous, incurved-ascending, scarcely exceeding 

 the corolla. A low, much branched, annual herb, clammy-pubescent, with 

 nearly entire lance-oblong 3-nerved leaves, and small pale blue flowers on ehorl 



