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branching stems, coarsely toothed ovate leaves, and'small purplish or" 

 rose color opposite -flowers, in ehngatcd-midilcndcr terminal spikes . 



1. I\ Leptostaciiya, L. Slender-spiked Lopseed. 



L:avcs ovate, acuto, coarsely and unequally toothed, pctioled ; calyx in fruit re- 

 flexed. 



Rich eandy woods, common. .Tilly. Stem 2 to 3 feet high, with a few ppreading . 

 branches above. Leaves 3 to. 6 inches Jong., thin, , on short stalks. F lower i small, , 

 Httostly opposite. 



3. LIPPIA,Linn. (Zapania. Juss.) 



In honor of Lippi, an Italian traveler and naturalist. 



Calyx compressed, 2 to 4 parted, 2-lipped. Corolla \ 

 tubular, strongly 2-lipped ; upper Up notched ; the lower 

 much longer, 3-Iobed. Stamens 4, included. Style - 

 Blender; stigma obliquely capitate. Fruit 2-cellcd, 2- 

 eeeded.^ — Shrubs or prostrate herbs, with opposite leaves, and*' 

 heads of flowers on axillary peduncles. 



1. L. nodiflora, Michz., Focj-frmL . 



Procumbent or creeping ; leaves wedge-ovate or oblanceolate, serrate' above; pe- 

 duncles axillary, slender, bearing solitary closely bracted heads of flowers. Per. 



Low grounds. July. Stem 6 to S inches long, branching. Leaves with con- 

 spicuous veins), 1 to 2 inches long, % to Yi as w i<-le, on petioles \/± to y> inch long. 

 Peduncles 2 to 3 inches long, bearing ovoid or roundish heads of bluish-white, s 

 flowers. 



Ohder • 73. LABIATJE — 1& Family,, . 



Chiefly herbs, wilJi square items, opposite aromatic leaves, more or 'less- 2-llpprd 

 corolla, didynamous or diandrous stamens, and a deeply 4Aobccl ovary, which forms 

 in fruit i little seed-like nutlets or achenia surrounding the base of the sinjle style in 

 the persistent calyx, each filled with a single erect seed. Flowers axillary or opposite, 

 without stipules. Calyx tubular, regularly 5- toothed or cleft. Upper lip of tha 

 eoroila 2-lobed or sometimes entire; the lower 2 parted. Stamens inserted on thu 

 tube of the corcila. Style 2-lobed at the apex, 



I.; ISANTHUS, Miehx. False Fennyroyel; 



Gr. iso%, equal, and anthos, a flower; referring to the nearly regular corolla. 



Calyx bell-shaped, deeply 5-toothed, equal, 10-nerved. 

 Corolla nearly regular, 5-lobed ; the lobes nearly equal, 

 rounded, spreading. Stamens 4, nearly equal, erect, 

 distant, scarcely >.as long as the corolla. Achenia wrinkled 

 and pitted. — A low branching clammy pubescent annual, with 

 mtire leaves, and small ;pah blue /lowers on ihort axillary 1 /o3v 

 Jhwercd peduncles. 



