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1. L. lanceol&ta, Michx. (Fog-fruit.) Procumbent or creeping, rough- 

 ish, green ; leaves oblanceolate or wedge-spatulate, serrate above ; peduncles 

 axillary, slender, bearing solitary closely bracted heads of bluish-white Sowers; 

 calyx 2-cleft, the divisions sharply keeled. — River-banks, Pennsylvania to 1111- 

 nois and southward. July -Sept. 



3. CALLICARPA, L. Callicarpa. 



Calyx 4-5-toothed, short. Corolla tubular-bell-shaped, 4-5-lobed, nearly 

 regular. Stamens 4, nearly equal, exserted : anthers opening at the apex. Style 

 slender, thickened upwards. Fruit a small berry-like drupe, with 4 nutlets. — 

 Shrubs, with scurfy pubescence, and small flowers in axillary cymes. (Name 

 formed of koXAoSj beauty, and Kapnos, fruit.) 



1. C. Americana, L. (French Mulberry.) Leaves ovate-oblong with 

 a tapering base, toothed, whitish beneath; calyx obscurely 4-toothed ; fruits vio- 

 let-color. — Rich soil, Virginia and southward. May - July. 



4. PHRYMA, L. Lopseed. 



Calyx cylindrical, 2-lipped ; the upper lip of 3 bristle-awl-shaped teeth ; the 

 lower shorter, 2-toothed. Corolla 2-lipped ; upper lip notched ; the lower much 

 larger, 3-lobed. Stamens included. Style slender : stigma 2-lobed. Fruit dry, 

 in the bottom of the calyx, oblong, 1-celled and 1-seeded ! Seed orthotropous. 

 Radicle pointing upwards : cotyledons convolute round their axis. — A peren- 

 nial herb, with slender branching stems, and coarsely toothed ovate leaves, the 

 lower long-petioled ; the small opposite flowers in elongated and slender terminal 

 spikes, reflexed in fruit, and bent close against the axis. Corolla purplish or 

 pale rose-color. (Derivation of the name unknown.) 



1. P. LeptOStachya, L. — Woods and copses : common. July. — Plant 

 (2° -3° high) : leaves 3' -5' long, thin. 



Order 71. LABIATE. (Mint Family.) 



Chiefly herbs, with square stems, opposite aromatic leaves, more or less 2- 

 lipped corolla, didynamous or diandrous stamens, and a deeply A-lobed ovary, 

 which forms in fruit 4 little seed-like nutlets or achenia, surrounding the base 

 of the single style in the bottom of the persistent calyx, each filled icith a sin- 

 gle erect seed. — Nutlets smooth or barely roughish and fixed by their 

 base, except in the first tribe. Albumen mostly none. Embryo straight 

 (except in Scutellaria) : radicle at the base of the fruit. Upper lip of 

 the corolla 2-lobed or sometimes entire ; the lower 3-lobed. Stamens 

 inserted on the tube of the corolla. Style 2-lobed at/the apex. Flowers 

 axillary, chiefly in eymose clusters, these often aggregated in terminal 

 spikes or racemes. Foliage mostly dotted with small glands containing a 

 volatile oil, upon which depends the warmth and aroma of the plants of 

 this large and well-known family. (More abundant in the Old World 

 than the New. One third of our genera and many of the species are 

 merely introduced plants.) 



