PLANTS OF SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY. 66i 



Verbena angustifolia Mlchx. Narrow-leaved Verbena. 



Verbena angustifolia Michaux, Fl. Bor. Am. II. 14. 1803 [Tennessee and 

 Carlisle, Pa.].— Knieskern 23.— Britton 194.— Keller and Britton 271. 



Open ground; occasional throughout the State, especially in 

 the Middle district. A weed in many places, and the few Pine 

 Barren records are all to be so regarded. 



Fl. — Early June to late July and sporadically into September. 



Middle District— New Egypt, Delanco, New Lisbon (KB), Mickleton 

 (KB), Lake Church, Asbury, Sicklerville, Swedesbdro (KB). 

 Pine Barrenj.—Winslow Jnc.j Hammonton, Absecon (S). 



LIPPIA L. 



Lippia lanceolata Michx. Fog-fruit. 



Lippia lanceolata Michaux, Fl. Bor. Am. II. 15. 1803 [near Ashley, Carolina]. 

 — Keller and Brown 272. 



Found only at Wildwood, on the coast ; a southern plant push- 

 ing north also along the Susquehanna Valley in Pennsylvania. 

 Fl. — Late July into September. 

 Coast Strip. — Wildwood. 



Family LABIATE. Mints, etc. 

 Key to the Species. 



a. Corolla five parted, lobes nearly or quite equal, not two-lipped. 

 b. Flowers blue, 1-3 on terminal or axillary pedicels. 



c. Flowers solitary at the ends of the branches or axillary branch- 

 lets 12-18 mm. long, stamens much exserted. Plant 2-6 dm. high. 

 d. Leaves oblong or lanceolate. Trichostema dichotomum, p. 664 

 dd. Leaves linear. T. lineare, p. 664 



cc. Flowers axillary, on 1-3 flowered pedicels, 4-6 mm. long. Plant 

 2-s dm. high. Viscid pubescent. Isanthus, p. 664 



66. Flowers purplish or white, often very small, in dense axillary clus- 

 ters, or forming a terminal interrupted spike. 

 c. Plants strongly odorous, anther-bearing stamens 4. Mentha, p. 673 

 cc. Plants not odorous, anther-bearing stamens 2. Lycopus, p. 672 

 aa. Corolla very irregulai-, apparently only one-lipped, the upper lip very 

 short and inconspicuous stamens exserted, flowers pink or purplish. 

 b. Leaves lanceolate to ovate, glabrous or sparingly ap^essed pubes- 

 cent. Teucrium canadense, p. 663 

 bb. Leaves narrower, densely appressed pubescent and papillose, plant 

 shorter and stiflFer. T. canadense littorale, p. 663 

 aaa. Corolla distinctly two-lipped. 



b. Calyx with a protuberance On the upper side. Scutellaria, p. 664 



