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146. Labiates.— This great family (Labiatm) and its alii- 

 ances represent more than ten thousand species. The con- 

 spicuous feature is the 

 zygomorphic flower, dif- 

 fering in this regard from 

 the Convolvulus forms, 

 which they resemble in 

 being tetracyclic and ani- 

 socarpic, as well as hypogy- 

 nous. The irregularity 

 consists in organizing the 

 mouth of the sympetalous 

 corolla into two "lips," 

 resulting in the labiate or 



Fig. 257. A common dogbane (Apocynum). -From "Field, Forest, and Wayside 



Flowers." 



