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evergreen, crowded all along the short woody stems, about 

 34 in. long. Flowers solitary at the ends of the branches, 

 stalkless. Corolla bell-shaped, white or rarely pink, the 5 

 blunt lobes somewhat spreading, about ^4 i^i- wide. In dry 

 sand of the pine barrens. Southern New Jersey to No. Caro- 

 lina. April. Fig. 729. 



730. Divisions or lobes of the corolla 4. 



Plants low, weak, more or less sprawling Bedstraw no. ^2^1 



Plant erect, 2-y ft. high Culver's-root no. 731 



731. Culver's-root. Lcptandra virginica. {Veronica vir- 

 ghiica.) (Scrophulariaceae.) An erect, stiflf, perennial, 2-7 ft. 

 high. Leaves in clusters of 3-9, stalked, lance-oblong, 3-6 in. 

 long, sharply toothed. Flowers in long showy branched ter- 

 minal spike-like clusters. Corolla tubular, essentially sym- 

 metrical, about ys in- long, its 4 lobes very short. In moist 

 woods or meadows. Ontario to Alabama, and westward. July. 

 Fig. 731. See No. 781. 



732. BEDSTRAW. GALIUM. 



Weak sprawling herbs with leaves in clusters, and the 4- 

 angled stems leafless between these clusters. Flowers very 



