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The Hound's- tongue or Gipsy Flower (Cynoglossum offici- 

 nale Linnaeus) is another plant of European origin, common as a weed 

 in fields and waste places. Stems erect and leafy, i to 3 feet high, pubes- 

 cent and with a rather strong unpleasant odor. Flowers numerous in sim- 

 ple or branched racemes; corolla reddish purple, about one-third of an inch 

 broad. Fruit pyramidal in shape consisting of four hispid nutlets. It is 

 also called Dog's-tongue, Sheep-lice and Dog Birr. 



Vervain Family 



Verbenaceae 



Blue or False Vervain 



Verbena hastata Linnaeus 



Plate 183b 



Stems erect, stiff, four-sided and usually branched, roughish pubescent, 

 2 to 7 feet tall from a perennial root. Leaves oblong-lanceolate to lanceo- 

 late, pointed at the apex, sharply toothed, 3 to 6 inches long, the lower leaves 

 sometimes hastately three-lobed at the base, the others blunt or abruptly 

 tapering to the petiole. Flowers blue, numerous in slender-panicled spikes, 

 2 to 6 inches long. Calyx tubular, somewhat unequally five-toothed; 

 corolla about one-eighth of an inch broad, the limb five-lobed and very 

 slightly two-lipped, dark blue, varying sometimes to pink or rarely white. 



In moist places, fields, meadows and roadsides, Nova Scotia to British 

 Columbia, south to Florida and Arizona. Flowering from June to 

 September. 



Mint Family 



Labiatae 



Hairy Germander or Wood Sage 



Teucrium occidentale A. Gray 



Plate 184 



Stems erect, four-angled, hairy, slender or rather stout, usually branched 

 with ascending branches, 1 to 3 feet high. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, thin, 





