10 CLASS II. ORDER I. 



lobed, its middle lobe pressed upward by the spur, which is short, 

 greenish, obtuse, and bending upward, compressed transversely, 

 not carinate, and shorter than the upper lip. Sent from Danvers 

 by Dr. Nichols. — August. 



Utricularia resupinata. Greene, M. S. Greene's blad- 

 der wort. 



Scape setaceous, mostly one flowered; nectary 

 resupinate. 



A small delicate species with purple flowers, discovered by 

 B. D. Greene, Esq. at Tewksbury. The nectary is short, some- 

 what obtuse, and in the young flowers, erect. 



The scape stands erect in the mud, very slender, with minute, 

 appressed bractes ; a few vesicles are found among the roots. 



Utricularia gibba. Willd. Gibbous Utricularia. 



Nectary gibbous, segments of the corolla roundish, 

 scape about one flowered. 



Very small with yellow flowers. Bladders few. Lips obtuse. 

 Spur obtuse and gibbous in the middle. Plymouth. — July. — 

 Mr. Tuckerman. 



12. LYCOPUS. 

 Lycopus EuropjEus. Water horchound. 



Lower leaves cut, upper leaves lanceolate, serrate ; 

 calyx acuminate-prickly. 



Stem square ; leaves opposite, lower ones deeply, upper ones 

 more slightly toothed. Flowers in Avhorls. This plant, as Dr. 

 Smith observes, resembles the mints, but has no aromatic smell. 

 Taste bitter. — Wet ground, flowering all summer. — Perennial. 



Lycopus Virginicus. L. Virginian Water horehound, 

 Bugle tveed. 



Leaves broad lanceolate, serrate, narrowed at base ; 

 calyx shorter than the seed, not prickly. 



Stem obtusely quadrangular. Leaves opposite, smooth, vari- 

 ously toothed. Flowers in small whorls, the calyx short and 

 unarmed. Between this and the preceding there are all inter- 

 mediate varieties. — Wet grounds. — July, August. — Perennial, 



