56 ORDER SO. LABIATE 



chiefly remarkable for its ample, bell-shaped calyx, in the bottom of which fs 

 seated the yellowish-green flower, f Syria. 



37. GALEQFSIS, L. HEMP NETTLE. (Gr. yatij, a weasel, ty 

 appearance ; its grotesque flowers are likened to that animal.) Calyx 

 5-cleft, spinescent ; upper lip of the corolla vaulted, subcrenate, lower lip 

 with 3 unequal lobes, having 2 teeth on its upper side, middle lobe lar- 

 gest, cleft and crenate ; stamens exserted beyond the tube ; anther cells 

 opposite, transverse. Verticils distant, many-flowered. 



1 G. tetrahit L. St. hispid, the internodes thickened upwards ; Ivs. ovate, hispid, 

 serrate ; cor. twice as long as the calyx, the upper lip nearly straight, concave. 

 A common weed, in waste and cultivated grounds, N. States. St. 1 to 2 to 3f 

 high, obtusely 4-angled, remarkably tumid below the joint, and covered with 

 prickly, deflexed bristles. Leaves hairy on both sides, ovate, acute, serrata Fls. 

 in dense verticils. Calyx with 5 acute, bristly teeth. Corolla variegated with 

 white and purple, upper lip concave, purple, longer than the lower. June, July. 

 Eur. 



2 G. ladamim L. St. glabrous or pubescent, internodes equal ; Ivs. lanceolate, sub- 

 serrate, pubescent ; upper lip of the cor. slightly crenate. A smaller species, 

 growing among rubbish in gravelly soils, fcc., N. Eng., rare. Stem about a foot. 

 high, not swollen below the joints, with opposite branches. Flowers in dense, 

 remote whorls. Corollas usually rose-colored, often white or variegated, spotted 

 with crimson. Aug., Sept. Eur. 



38. STA'CHYS, L. HEDGE NETTLE. (Gr. oro^vf, a spike; from 

 the inflorescence.) Calyx tube angular, campanulatc, 5 or 10-ribbed, 

 5-toothed, upper teeth often larger ; corolla bilabiate, upper lip erect, 

 spreading or somewhat vaulted, lower lip spreading, 3-lobed, middle 

 lobe largest ; stamens ascending, lower ones longer ; anthers approxi- 

 mate in pairs. Verticils 2 to 10-flowered, approximate in terminal 

 racemes. 



* Plants glabrous, or nearly so. Calyx teeth divaricately spreading ................ Nos. t, 2 



* Plants hispid. Calyx teeth suberect. Leaves stibsessile, petioles to W lonir ---- No?. 3, 4 



Leaves all petiolate, petioles (5 to 12 // long..Nos. 5, 6 



1 S. hyssopifolia MX. St. ascending or erect, glabrous or sparsely hairy ; Ivs. 

 sessile, lance-linear, finely serrulate, acute, small, margin and base hispid verticils 

 4-flowered, distant ; cal. and very short bracts ciliate, teeth subulate, spreading, 

 twice shorter than the corolla. If Wet soils, in barrens, Mass, to Mo. and S. 

 States. Plant slender, 6 to 12' high. Lvs. 1' in length, rarely longer, 2 to 4'' 

 wide. Fls. sessile, 7" long. Teeth of calyx shorter than its tube. JL 



2 S. glabra Kiddell. St. glabrous or slightly hispid downward, erect, often 

 branched ; Ivs. glabrous, oblong-ovate, rounded or truncate at base, all petiolate, 

 acute or subacuminate, serrate; cal. glabrous, teeth lance- subulate, spinulous, 

 divaricate, as long as the tube of the corolla, If "Woods, streams, N. Y. to Mich. 

 and S. States. Plant slender or rather stout, 15' to 3f high. Lvs. 2 to 4' long, 

 the petioles 6 to 12". Spikes at length 3 to 1' long. Fls. slender, pale red and 

 purple. JL, Aug. 



P. DEBILIS. Weak, much branched, from a decumbent base. Ga., La. \ 



3 S. palustris L. St. stout, erect, hispid, with retrorse bristles ; Ivs. many, his- 

 pid, hoary beneath, on short petioles, oblong-lanceolate, subacuminate, narrowed 

 towards the obtuse base, crenate-serrate ; cal. hispid, teeth acuminate-spinulous, 

 erect-spreading ; cor. twice longer than the calyx. If By streams and in moist 

 shades, Can. and Wis. to Car. Herb rough and coarse, 1 to 4f high. Lvs. 3 to 

 6' long, petioles a few lines. Bracts longer than the calyx. Fls. widely gaping, 

 7 to 8 V ' long, pale red spotted with puiple. Jn. Aug. (S. hispida Ph.) 



4 S. aspera MX. St. slender, erect or flexuous, retrorsely hispid ; Ivs. sparsely 

 hispid, subsessile, ovate-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, sharply serrate, obtuse at 

 base ; cal glabrous, but ciliate on the angles, and the lanceolate, spinulous, sub- 

 erect teeth. H Can. and U. S., in damp places, common. Plant much moro 



