LABIATAB (MLNT FAMILiT^ 7Ub 



80. CUNlLA L. Dittany 



Calyx ovoid-tubular, equally 5-toothed, very hairy in the throat. ?Jpper lip 

 of corolla erect, flattish, mostly notched ; the lower spreading, .3-cleft. Stamen.* 

 2, erect, exserted ; sterile filaments short, minute. — Perennials, with small white 

 or purplish tiowers, in corymbed cymes or clusters. (An ancient Latin name, 

 o*' unknown origin.) 



I. C. origanoides (L.) Britton. (Common D.) Stems tufted, ccrymbosely 

 «:uch branched, 2-4 dm. high ; leaves smooth, ovate, serrate, rounded u^ heart- 

 shaped at base, nearly sessile, dotted, 1.5-4 cm. long; cymes peduncled ^ calyx 

 striate. (C. Mariana L.) — Dry hills, N. Y. to III., Ark., and Ga. 



31. L"^COPUS [Toum.] L. Water Horehound 



Calyx bell-shaped, 4-5-toothed, naked in the throat. Corolla bell-sbaped. 

 Stamens 2, distant, the upper pair either sterile rudiments or wanting. Nutlets 

 with thickened margins. — Perennial mostly stoloniferous herbs, glabrous or 

 puberulent, resembling Mints, with sharply toothed or pinnatifid leaves, the 

 floral ones similar and much longer than the dense axillary whorls of small 

 mostly white flowers; in summer. (Name compounded of Xt/Kos, a wolf, and 

 jTovs, foot, from some fancied likeness in the leaves.) 



* Leaves merely serrate. 



H- Calyx-teeth lanceolate or deltoid, barely acutish, shorter than the mature 



nutlets. 



1. L. virginicus L. (Bugle Weed.) Stem ohtufiely 2ing\ed., usually puherii- 

 lent, 2-8 dm. high, rising /rom a slender {riot tuberous-thickened) base; stolons 

 filiform, not tuberiferous ; leaves dark green (or purple-tinged), ovate or ovate- 

 oblong, firm, rather abruptly acuminate at both ends, coarsely toothed, 6-15 cm. 

 long, 2-5 cm. broad ; glomerules dense, often seemingly compound, in maturity 

 8-15 mm. broad; calyx ovoid-cylindric ; corolla tubular, with erect lobes; sta- 

 mens mostly included. — Rich moist soil, N. H. to Neb., and south w. (Asia.) 



2. L. unifl5rus Michx. (Bugle Weed.) Similar, but usually more slender 

 and glabrate, from a tuberous base; stolons finally tuberiferous; leaves light 

 green (rarely purple-tinged), thinner, lanceolate to lance-oblong, gradually nar- 

 rowed at both ends, 2-11 cm. long, 0.5-3.5 cm. broad ; glomerules smaller and 

 less dense, in maturity 4-9 mm. broad ; cahjx campanulate ; corolla with flaring 

 lobes; stamens mostly exserted. (L. communis and L. membranaceus Bick- 

 nell.) — Low ground, Nfd. and Lab. to B. C, s. to mts. of Va., Mich., Minn., 

 Neb., Wyo., and Ore. (Asia.) 



*- 1- Calyoiyteeth narroio, vei'y acute, longer than the nutlets. 



•w. Bracts minute; corolla twice as long as the calyx. 



3. L. sessilif51ius Gray. Tuberiferous ; stem rather acutely 4-angled, puber. 

 ulent ; leaves closdy sessile, ovate to lanceolate, 3-10 cm. long, sparsely sharp- 

 serrate ; calyx-teeth subulate, rigid. — Low grounds, Mass. to Fla. end Miss., 

 near the coast. 



4. L. rub^llus Moench. Stem rather obtusely 4-angled ; leaves petioled, 

 ovate-oblong or oblong-lanceolate, sharply serrate in the middle, attenuate-acu- 

 minate at both ends, 4-12 cm. long ; calyx-teeth triangular-subulate, not rigid- 

 pointed. — Vt. and Mass. to Minn., and southw. — Resembles no. 1, but has 

 long slender calyx-teeth. 



♦+ -^ Outer bracts conspicuous ; corolla hardly exceeding the calyx. 



5. L. lucidus Turcz., var. americanus Gray. Stem strict, stout, 2-9 dm. 

 .ugh , leaves lanceolate and oblong-lanceolate, 6-10 cm. long, acute or acumi 

 ■la'e, very sharply and coarsely serrate, sessile or nearly so ; calyx-teeth lance- 

 »)vate. acuminate. (L. asper Greene.) — Mich, to Man., Kan., and westw. — 

 Typical L. lucidus of Asia and n. w. Am., with elongate subpetiolate leaves anii 

 tance-subulate calyx-teeth, approaches our n. w. borders 



