; POPULAR FLORA. V7 
* * Flowers in a terminal loose raceme. G 
6. THyME-LEAVED §. Smooth and small, 2! to 4' high from a creeping base; leaves ovate or oblong,: 
the lowest petioled and rounded. Fields, every where. v. serpyllifolia. 
* * * Flowers in the axils of the upper leaves. Root annual. 
7. PursLANE §. or NECKWEED. Smooth, branching, erect; lower leaves oval or oblong, toothed, ° 
and petioled; uppermost oblong-liuear, sessile, and entire. Cult. grounds, &c. V. peregrina. 
8. Corn S. Hairy; lower leaves ovate, crenate, petioled; the unper sessile, lance-shaped, and entire. 
Cultivated grounds. V. arvensis. 
Toadflax. Linaria. 
1. Common T. (BuTTER-AND-Eaes, RamstTep). 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. vulgaris. 
2. Witp 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. Canadensis. 
Gerardia. Gerdrdia. 
Plants with large and showy somewhat leafy-racemed flowers; the corolla alittle irregular, but hardly 
2-lipped. Stamens woolly or hairy; the 4 anthers approaching in pairs. Fl. late summer and autumn. 
* Corolla rose-purple: calyx bell-shaped, with 5 short teeth: plants low and bushy-branched. 
1. Porrte G. Leaves linear, rough-margined; flowers 1! long, short-stalked. G. purpurea. 
2. SLENDER G. Leaves linear; flower about #! long, on a long and slender stalk. G. tenuifolia. 
* * Corolla yellow,.with a rather long tube, woolly,inside: calyx 5-cleft, leaf-like. 
3. Downy G. Stem (3° or 4° high) and oblong or lance-shaped leaves clothed with a fine close down, , 
upper leaves entire, lower ones sinuate or pinnatifid. Woods. G. flava. 
4. Smoota G. Smooth throughout and glaucous, 8° to 6° high; lower leaves twice pinnatifid, upper 
once pinnatifid or entire. Rich woods. G. quercifolia. 
_ 5. Cur-teAveD G. Rather downy, bushy-branchéed, 2° or 8° high, very leafy; leaves pinnatifid, the 
crowded divisions cut and toothed. G. pedicularia. 
62. VERVAIN FAMILY, Order VERBENACE. 
Herbs or shrubby plants, with opposite leaves, a 2-lipped or unequally 5- (or rarely 4-) 
lobed 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, (Phryma) Lorsxep. 
Calyx tubular, 5-toothed. Corolla salver-shaped, with 5 slightly unequal lobes. Flowers 
in spikes or heads, ‘summer and autumn, (Verbena) VERVAIN. 
