Lycopus:] LABIATE 209 



July. TJ.. Tfee genus Verbena is placed by Sir James Edward Smith, 

 in the first order of the class Didynamia, but as Doctor Hooker re- 

 marks, it does not naturally rank there, being considerably different in 

 the structure of its germen and fruit. This herb has scarcely any aro- 

 matic or other sensible quality. The root worn about the neck with 

 a string, is an old superstitious remedy, or charm for the King's Evil. 



ORD. 59. LABIAT^E. Juss. Labiate Family. 



Calyx tubular or regular, and quinquefid, or 5 10-toothed 

 or 2-lipped, the lips entire or divided. Corolla monopetalous, 

 hypogynous, tubular, irregular. Upper lip undivided or bifid ; 

 in aestivation overlapping the inferior trifid one. Stamens 4, 

 didynamous, two of them sometimes sterile ; filaments inserted 

 alternately with the lobes of the lower lip : anthers 2-lobed, 

 the lobes often divaricated, sometimes 1-celled. Ovaries 4, 

 1 -seeded, connected at the base by means of the style, situated 

 upon a glandular disk : ovules erect: style 1, originating from 

 the receptacle: stigma bifid, usually acute. Fruit of four 

 achenia or small nuts enclosed in the persistent calyx, one or 

 more not unfrequently .abortive: albumen little or none. Em- 

 bryo erect: cotyledons plane. Herbaceous plants or under- 

 shrubs. Stem 4-cornered, with opposite ramifications. Leaves 

 opposite, divided or undivided, without stipulce, replete with recep- 

 tacles of aromatic oil. Flowers in opposite, nearly sessile cymes, 

 resembling whorls ; sometimes as if capitate. 



An extensive Natural Family, abounding in essential oils, as 

 the Lavender, Thyme, Mint, &c. They are tonic and sto- 

 machic, and many are employed in medicine, and others as 

 savoury herbs. 



1. SALVIA. Linn. Sage. 



Calyx 2-lipped, tubular. Corolla labiate, the tube dilated up- 

 wards and compressed. Filaments with two divaricating 

 branches, one only bearing a perfect, single cell of an anther. 

 Named from salvo, to save or heal, in allusion to its balmy 

 or healing qualities. Diandria. Monogynia. 



1. S. verbenaca, Linn. Wild English Clary or Sage. Leaves 

 serrated, sinuated, smootbish ; corolla much more contracted than 

 the calyx. Br. Fl. \. p. 10. E. Fl. v. i. p. 35. E. Bot. t. 154. 



Dry pastures and banks in a sandy or gravelly soil. Very common 

 near Dublin, and many other places. JET/. June, July. 14-. One to two 

 feet high. Flowers small, violet-blue. 



2. LYCOPUS. Linn. Gipsy- wort. 



Calyx tubular, 5-cleft. Corolla tubular, 4-lobed, nearly equal; 



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