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21. STACH'YS, Tourn. HEDGE-NETTLE. 



1. S. paluS'tPiS, L. Stem 2-3 feet high, 4-angled, the 

 angles beset with stiff reflcxed hairs or bristles. Leaves 

 sessile, or the lower short-petioled, oblong or ovate-lanceo- 

 late, crenately serrate, downy. Calyx hispid. Upper lip 

 of the corolla pubescent. Wet grounds. 



2. S. as'pera, Michx. Taller than the last, the leaves 

 nearly all ' distinctly petioled. Calyx mostly glabrous. 

 Corolla glabrous throughout. Wet grounds. 



22. LEONIT'RITS, L. MOTHERWORT. 



L. Cardi aea, L. (COMMOK MOTHERWORT.) Stem tall. 

 Leaves long-petioled, the lower palmately lobed, the upper 

 3-cleft. Upper lip of the corolla bearded. Near dwellings. 

 23. l.A'Mll'tl, L. DEAD-NETTLE. 



1. L. amplexieau'le, L. Leaves rounded, deeply cren- 

 ate-toothed, the upper ones clasping. In gardens in some 

 places. 



2. L. purpu'reum, L. Leaves rounded or oblong, heart- 

 shaped, crenate- toothed, all petioled. A garden escape. 



3. L. maeula'tum, L. Taller. Leaves ovate, heart- 

 shaped, often with a white spot above. Flowers rather 

 large, purplish, with hairs at the base inside. A garden 



escape. 



24. it v 1,1 01 A. L. FETID HOREHOUND. 



B. IligPa, L. (BLACK HOREHOUND.) Leaves ovate, toothed. 

 Calyx-teeth longer than the tube of the corolla. S. W. 

 Ontario. 



ORDER LXJV. BORRAGINA'CE^E. (BORAGE FAMILY.) 

 Herbs, with a deeply 4-lobed ovary, forming 4 seed-like 

 nutlets, as in the last Order, but the corolla is regularly 5- 

 lobed, with 5 stamens inserted upon its tube. 



Synopsis of the Geuera. 

 * Corolla without any scales in the throat. 



1. E'chJum. Corolla with a funnel-form tube and a spreading border 

 of $ somewhat unequal lobes. Stamens exser ted, unequal. Flow- 

 ers bright blue, with a purplish tinge, in racemed clusters. Plant 

 bristly. 



