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vains or verbenas (Verbena hastata and V. stricta) ; also fog'- 

 fruit (Ivippia lyceroides), another of this family, is valued very 

 hig-hly in Texas — it g-rows ten feet high, and bears beautiful 



Fig. 248. 



True Mangrove. — OrUj'mal. 



white flowers ; the ironweeds (Vernonias), the raalvas, Cul- 

 ver's root, Veronica Virginica — another of the figwort family ; 

 Indian plantains, Cacalias, and viper's bugloss — the so-called 



