LABIATAE (MINT FAMILY) 699 



* * Stem-leaves greatly reduced upward^ the injiorescences long-pedunculate. 



?. P. denticulata (Ait.) Britton. Slender, simple, or the inflorescence 

 branched, 0.0-1.2 dm. high ; leaves thick, pale green, from crenate-dentate to 

 serrate ; spikes solitary or in large plants several and paniculately disposed, 

 rather loose ; corolla 2.5-3.5 cm. long. (P. virginiana, var. Gray.) — Prairies, 

 river-banks, etc.. Va. to 111., Kan., and south w. June-Aug. 



4. P. intermedia (Nutt.) Engelm. & Gray. Slender, 3-15 dm. high, remotely 

 leaved; leaves linear-lanceolate, repand-denticulate ; rhachis filiform, ratlier 

 remotely flowered; calyx short and broadly campanulate ; corolla 1-1.5 cm. 

 long, much dilated upward. — Barrens, w. Ky. and Ark. to La. and Tex. 



13. SYNANDRA Nutt. 



Calyx bell-shaped, inflated, membranaceous, irregularly veiny. Corolla with 

 a long tube, much expanded above and at the throat ; the upper lip slightly 

 arched, entire, the lower spreading and 3-cleft, with ovate lobes, tne middle one 

 broadest and notched at the end. Filaments hairy ; anthers approximate in 

 pairs under the upper lip ; the two upper each with one fertile and one smaller 

 sterile cell, the latter cells cohering together (whence the name ; from avv, 

 together, and dvrjp, for anther). 



1. S. hispidula (Michx.) Britton. Hairy biennial, 3-6 dm. high ; lower 

 leaves long-petioled, broadly ovate, heart-shaped, crenate, thin, the floral sessile, 

 gradually reduced to bracts, each with a single sessile flower ; corolla 3-4 cm. 

 long, yellowish-white. (S. grandiflora Nutt.) — Shady banks of streams, 0. to 

 111., Tenn., and Va. June. 



14. PHL6mIS [Tourn.] L. Jerusalem Sage 



Upper Up of the corolla arched ; the lower spreading, 3-cieft. Stamens as- 

 cending under the upper lip ; the filaments of the upper pair longer than the 

 others in P. tuberosa, with an awl-shaped appendage at base ; anther-cells di- 

 vergent and confluent. — Leaves rugose. Whorls dense and many-flowered, 

 axillary, remote, bracted. (An old Greek name of a woolly plant.) 



1. P. tuber6sa L. Tall perennial, nearly smooth ; leaves ovate-heart-shaped, 

 crenate, petioled, the floral oblong-lanceolate ; bracts awl-shaped, hairy ; upper 

 lip of the purple corolla densely bearded with white hairs on the inside. — Shore 

 of L. Ontario, N, Y., local. June, July. (Nat. from Eu.) 



15. GALEOPSIS L. Hemp Nettle 



Calyx about 5-nerved, with 5 somewhat equal teeth. Corolla dilated at the 

 throat ; upper lip ovate, arched, entire ; the lower 3-cleft, spreading, the lateral 

 lobes ovate, the middle one inversely heart-shaped ; palate with 2 teeth at the 

 sinuses. — Annuals, with spreading branches, and several-many-flowered whorls 

 in the axils of floral leaves which are nearly like the lower ones. (Name com- 

 posed of yaXev, a weasel, and 6\l/is, appearance, from some fancied likeness of 

 the corolla to the head of a weasel.) 



1. G. Tetrahit L. (Commox H.) Stem swollen below the joints, bristly- 

 hairy ; leaves ovate, coarsely serrate; corolla purplish, white, or variegated, 

 about twice the length of the calyx. — Waste places and fields, common. June- 

 Sept. (Xat. from Eu.) 



2. G. Ladaxtm L. (Red H.) Stem can escent icith appressed pubescence ; 

 leaves linear or lanceolate, more or less downy, entire or obscurely serrate ; 

 corolla red or rose-color (often spotted with yellow), much exceeding the calyx. 

 — Ballast and waste places, N. B. to Mich, and N. J., local. (Adv. from Eu.) 

 Var. latif6lia Wallr. Leaves ovate-oblong, shaiply toothed; upper parts of 

 the plant copiously glandular. — Similar places, casual. (Adv. from Eu.) 



