GLOBULARIACE^. 97 



Willkommii, Nym. {vulgaris, auct.); stem leafy; hill- 

 sides; Switzerland, not uncommon. G. nana, Lam. (PL 

 99) ; densely caespitose, umbels nearly sessile, leaves very 

 small and narrow ; Pyrenees. 



Order LXV.— VERBENACEiE. 



Flowers usually in cymes ; calyx usually 5-toothed ; 

 corolla irregular, often 2-lipped ; stamens usually 4, didy- 

 namous; ovary 2-4-celled. A very large order, chiefly 

 of tropical and sub-tropical trees and shrubs, represented 

 in Europe only by a very small number of species ; not 

 alpine. 



I. Verbena, L. 



Flowers in terminal bracteate spikes or racemes; 

 calyx 5-toothed ; corolla 2-lipped ; ovary 4-celled ; leaves 

 usually opposite. 



V. officinalis, L., Vervain ; road-sides and waste places, 

 very common ; almost always near houses. 



Order LXVI.— LABIAT.E. 



Flowers solitary, or in opposite, axillary, crowded, 

 stalked or sessile cymes, having the appearance of 

 whorls; calyx persistent, S -cleft; corolla 2-lipped; sta- 

 mens 4, epipetalous, didynamous, rarely only 2; ovary 

 of two connate deeply 2-lobed carpels ; style i ; stigma 

 forked into two arms, and not mature till a considerably 

 later period than the maturity of the stamens in the 

 same flower (proterandrous) ; fruit of four i-seeded nut- 



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