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Leaves deeply cut Water Hoarhound no. 719 



Leaves merely sharply toothed Water Hoarhound no. 720 



718. Bugle-weed. Lycopus virginicus. A perennial, 6-18 in. 

 high often with long thread like runners. Leaves opposite, 

 often greenish-purple, lance shaped, or lance-oval, narrowed 

 into a stalk-like base. Flowers in dense clusters at the leaf- 

 joints. Corolla scarcely hidden by the blunt tips of the united 

 sepals. In wet places. New Hampshire to Florida, and west- 

 ward. August. Fig. 718. 



719. Water Hoarhound. Lycopus americanns. A stiff peren- 

 nial 12-20 in. high, usually smooth. Leaves, especially towards 

 the base, with deep incisions, above this, merely deeply 

 toothed. Flowers as in No. 718, but the long points of the 

 united sepals partly hiding the tiny corolla. In wet places. 

 Newfoundland to Florida, and westward. June-October. Fig. 

 719. 



720. Water Hoarhound. Lycopus europaeus. Resembling 

 No. 719, but the leaves merely deeply toothed, and without the 

 deep incisions near the base. It grows in waste places, Mass. 

 to Virginia, not common. Native of Europe. August. 



721. Garden Valerian. Valeriana officinalis. (Valcrian- 

 aceae.) An erect, mostly hairy, rather strong smelling peren- 

 nial, 2-5 ft. high. Leaves opposite, apparently compound, the 

 9-12 thin, remotely toothed segments appearing like leaflets. 

 Flowers small, pinkish-white, in a large, branched, many- 

 flowered, terminal cluster. Corolla tubular, very slightly ir- 



