GLOBULARIACE^ 97 



Willkommii) Nym. (vulgaris, auct.) ; stem leafy ; hill- 

 sides; Switzerland, not uncommon. G. nana. Lam. (PI. 

 99) ; densely caespitose, umbels nearly sessile, leaves very 

 small and narrow ; Pyrenees. 



Order LXV. VERBENACE^. 



Flowers usually in cymes ; calyx usually 5 -toothed ; 

 corolla irregular, often 2-lipped ; stamens usually 4, didy- 

 namous; ovary 2-4-celled. A very large order, chiefly 

 of tropical and sub-tropical trees and shrubs, represented 

 in Europe only by a very small number of species ; not 

 alpine. 



i. VERBENA, L. 



Flowers in terminal bracteate spikes or racemes ; 

 calyx 5 -toothed ; corolla 2-lipped ; ovary 4-celled ; leaves 

 usually opposite. 



V. officinalisy L., Vervain ; road-sides and waste places, 

 very common ; almost always near houses. 



Order LXVL LABIATE. 



Flowers solitary, or in opposite, axillary, crowded, 

 stalked or sessile cymes, having the appearance of 

 whorls; calyx persistent, 5 -cleft; corolla 2-lipped; sta- 

 mens 4, epipetalous, didynamous, rarely only 2; ovary 

 of two connate deeply 2-lobed carpels ; style I ; stigma 

 forked into two arms, and not mature till a considerably 

 later period than the maturity of the stamens in the 



same flower (proterandrous) ; fruit of four I -seeded nut- 

 VOL. II. G 



