158 COMMON CANADIAN WILD PLANTS. 



Var- Tartar'ica, Renth., has pale purple flowers 

 16. BAKT'SIA, L. 



B. Odonti'tes, Huds. Stem branching, scabrous-pubes- 

 cent. Leaves obloug-lanceolate, coarsely and remotely 

 serrate. Atl. sea-coast. 



16. KHIXAN'XHUS, L. "Tellow-Eattle. 

 R. Crista-galli, L. (Common Tellow-Eattle.) Locali- 

 ties much the same as those of Euphrasia. Seeds broadly 

 winged, rattling in the inflated calyx when ripe. 



IT. PEDICELA'RIS, Tourn. Lodsewoet. 



1. P. Canadensis, L. (Common Lottsbwokt. Wood Bet- 

 ONY.) stems clustered, simple, hairy. Lowest leaves pin- 

 nately-parted. Flowers in a short spike. — Copses and 

 banks. 



2. P. laneeola'taj Michx., has a nearly simple, smooth, 

 upright stem, and oblong-lanceolate cut-toothed leaves. 

 Calyx 2-lobed, leafy-crested. Pod ovate. — Grassy swamps. 



3. P. Furbish'ise, Watson. Leaves pinnately-parted, and 

 the short oblong divisions pinnately cut, or (in the upper) 

 serrate. Calyx-lobes 5. Upper lip of corolla straight and 

 beakless. — Eiver banks, Atl. Prov. 



18. MEIAMPY'KEM, Tourn. Cow-Wheat. 

 M. Ameriea'num, Michx. Leaves lanceolate, short- 

 petioled ; the lower ones entire. — Open woods. 



Oedbe LXI. VERBENA'CE.^. (Vervain Pamilt.) 



Herbs (with us), with opposite leaves, didynamous sta- 

 mens, and corolla either irregularly 5-lobed or 2-lipped. 

 Ovary in Verbena 4-celled (when ripe splitting into 4 nut- 

 lets) and in Phryma 1-celled, hut in no case 4-lobed, thus 

 distinguishing the plants of this Order from those of tho 

 next. 



Synopsis of tlie Genera. 

 1. Terbe'na. Flowers in spikes. Calyx tubular, S-ribbed. Corolla 

 tubular, salver-form, tbe border rather irregularly 5-cleft. Frutt 

 splitting into 4 DU^ets. 



