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* * Flowers in a terminal loose raceme. 



6. Thyme-leaved S. Smooth and small, 2' to 4' high from a creeping base; leaves ovate or oblong, 



the lowest petioled and rounded. Fields, everywhere. V. eerpyllifdlia. 



* * * Flowers in the axils of the upper leaves. Koofc annual. 



7. PuRSLAKE S. or Neckweed. Smooth, branching, erect; lower leaves oval or oblong, toothed, 



and petioled; uppermost oblong-linear, sessile, and entire. Cult, grounds, &c. V.pereffrina. 



8. CouN S. Hairy ; lower leaves ovate, crenate, petioled ; the unper sessile, lance-shaped, and entire. 



Cultivated grounds. V. arvensis. 



Toadflax- Linaria. 



1. CoMMOJj T. (Butter-and-Eggs, Eamsted). Stems branching, crowded with the pale linear 



leaves; flowers crowded in a close raceme, large and showy, pale yellow with the palate orange- 

 colored. A weed in fields and road-sides. L. milgaris, 



2. Wild T. Stem very slender, simple, with scattered linear leaves; prostrate shoots at the bottom 



with broader leaves ; flowers very small, blue, in a slender raceme. Sandy soil. L. Qmademis. 



Gerardia. Gerdrdia. 

 Plants with large and showy somewhat leafy-racemed flowers ; the corolla a little irregular, but hardly 

 2-lipped. Stamenswoolly or hairy; the 4 anthers approaching in pairs. Fl. late summer and .autumn. 

 * Corolla rose-purple : calyx bell-shaped, with 5 short teetli : plants low and bushy-branched. 

 Purple G. Leaves hnear, rough-raargiued; flovvers 1' long, short-stalked. G. purpurea. 



Slender G. Leaves linear; flower about i' long, on a long and slender stalk. G. tenuifblia. 



■' v.* * Corolla yellow, with a rather long tube, woolly inside: calyx 5-cleft, leaf-like. 



3. DaWMf j G. . .&em (3° or 4° high) and oblong or lance-shaped leaves clothed with a fine close down, 



upp'^ leaves. entire, lower ones sinuate or pinnatifid. Woods. G. jlava. 



%. Smooth G. Smooth throughout and glaucous, 3° to 6° high; lower leaves twice pinnatifid, upper 



once pinnatifig|i_or.gritire. Eich woods. G. guercifblia. 



a. Cut-leaved G.jPkather downy, bushy-branched, 2° or 3° high, very leafy ; leaves pinnatifid, the 



crowded dmsions cijt and^'toothed. 0. pedicularia. 



62.- V^EltVAIIf FAMILY. Order VERBENACBiE. 



Herbs or shrubby plants, with opposite leaves, a 2-lipped or unequally 5- (or rarely 4-) 

 lolied corolla, and 4 stamens in pairs (i.e. 2 long and 2 short ones) : the pistil with a single 

 ovary and only one seed in each cell ; the fruit either berry-like with 4 stones, or dry and 

 splitting into 2 or 4 akenes, or in Lopseed consisting of a single akene. This family is in- 

 termediate between the foregoing order and the next. The two following are the com- 

 monest genera. 



Calyx cylindrical, 2-lipped. Corolla 2-lipped. Ovary 1-celled, simple. Herb, in woods, 

 with small whitish flowers in slender and loose spikes; the calyx containing 

 the akene, turned down in fruit, (Phi-yma) Lopseed. 



Calyx tubular, 5-toothed. Corolla salver-shaped, with 5 slightly unequal lobes. Flowers 



in spikes or heads, summer and autumn, ( Verbena) Very aim. 



