HARPER'S GUIDE TO WILD FLOWERS 



False Gromwell 



Onosmodium <virginiknum. — Family, Borage. Color, a deep 

 cream or yellowish white. Calyx, tubular, with 5 narrow divisions 

 above. Corolla, tubular, with 5 long, narrow lobes, bristly on 

 the outside. Stamens, 5, with somewhat arrow-shaped, pointed 

 anthers. Pistil, with a thread-like, projecting style. Fruit, a 

 1 -seeded nutlet. Leaves, rough, about 2 inches long, narrow, the 

 lower ones tapering at base, sessile. Stems, rather slender. Whole 

 plant covered with stiff, short hairs. Flowers, in leafy racemes, 

 at first short and close, becoming elongated. May to July. 



Maine to Florida and westward. On dry banks or hill- 

 sides. 



White Vervain 



Verbena wiicaefblia.. — Family, Vervain. Color, white. Calyx, 

 unevenly 5-toothed. Corolla, 5-toothed, the lobes spreading. 

 Stamens, 4, in pairs, the 2 upper frequently imperfect. Fruit 

 splitting into 4 nutlets. Leaves, opposite, petioled, toothed, oval, 

 acute. Flowers, small, in spikes, rather loose, on stems- 3 to 5 

 feet high. 



Dry fields and waste places all over the Eastern States, 

 westward to Texas. Often found growing with the blue 

 vervain. 



Fog-fruit 



Ltppia lanceolkta. — Family, Vervain. Color, bluish white. 

 Calyx and corolla, 2-lipped, the upper corolla lip notched, the 

 lower and larger 3 -divided. Leaves, oblong to ovate, or lance- 

 shaped, toothed above the middle. Stems, weak, creeping, with 

 slender peduncles ascending, bearing at their terminals small, 

 roundish heads of small flowers. Stems rooting at the joints in 

 the moist soil of river-banks or brooks. June to August. 



New Jersey and Pennsylvania, southward and westward. 



Horehound 



Ma,rrubium <vulga.re. — Family, Mint. Color, white. In the Mint 

 Family the 5 -pointed corolla is 2-lipped, making the upper division 

 of 2 united petals, the lower of 3. The calyx is also 2-lipped. The 

 fruit consists of 4 small nutlets. This species is an importation 

 from Europe, and often cultivated for its medicinal effects; the 

 leaves are rough, round to ovate, with petioles, toothed. Flowers 

 in whorls, many together in the axils. 1 to 3 feet tall. June to 

 August. 



Waste fields and dry soil, Maine to Minnesota southward. 



