PLANTAGINACE.E. 



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slightly concave, and not concealing the stamens, the back hairy; the lower lip with 

 side lobes mere deflexed teeth. 



S. Californica, Bentham. Distinguished from S. bullata by larger size (3-6 feet 

 high), aromatic odor, ovate-cordate leaves and corolla darker. Perhaps only a moist 

 ground v?riety of the latter. 



VERBENACEJE. 



Herbs or shrubs differing from Labiatce mainly in the 

 ovary and fruit, which is undivided and 2-4-celled, at 

 maturity either dry and splitting into as many 1-seeded 

 nutlets, or drupaceous, containing as many little stones. 

 Key to genera and species, p. 170. 



LIPPIA. 



L. cuneifolia, Steud. Diffusely branched from a 

 woody base, procumbent, canescent: leaves rigid, 

 cuneate-linear sessile, incisely toothed above the middle: 

 peduncles short, bearing cylindrical heads 4 or 5 lines 

 thick. River banks and subsaline plains of the Central 

 Val., Greene. 



PLANTAGINACEJE. 



This order is represented in North America by 

 1. PLANTAGO, L. PLANTAIN. 



Flowers in spikes or heads, bracteate. Calyx of 4 

 persistent sepals free from the ovary. Corolla scarious, 

 apparently dry, colorless, 2-lobed. Stamens 2 or 4 on 

 the corolla alternate with its lobes, anthers versatile. 

 Style filiform, bearded above. Stemless herbs with 



Verbena hastata (spikes and nerved or ribbed radical leaves and naked scapes of 

 bracts), a. Ripe fruit removed small greenish or colorless flowers. Key to genera and 

 from the calyx (natural size and spec i es , p . 174. 

 magnified). 



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