WHITE GROUP 



Hedge Hyssop 



Grafiola <virginiana. — Family, Figwort. Color, white and yel- 

 low (see p. 206). Two-lipped corolla, with a tube yellowish within, 

 and lighter, nearly white, lobes. The lower lip 3 -cleft, the upper 

 2. Calyx, separated into 5 narrow, unequal, long divisions. 

 Underneath are leaf-like, small bracts. Leaves, opposite, sessile, 

 long, narrow, acute at both ends. 



Low, light green, softly clammy plants in wet, sandy soil. 

 The stems often lie upon the ground, branched, with flowers 

 of the snapdragon type prominent, on long peduncles. 



Culver's-root. Culver's Physic 



Veronica <virginica. — Family, Figwort. Color, white or whitish. 

 Calyx, 4 or 5-parted. Corolla, tubular, with wheel-shaped, short 

 border, 4 or 5-cleft. Stamens, 2, one at each side of the upper 

 lobes of the corolla, standing out from the flower. Flowers, in 

 terminal, spiked panicles, stiff, upright, 3 to 6 feet high. Leaves, 

 4 to 7, whorled around the stem, lance-shaped, with short petioles, 

 finely toothed. Rich, moist woods or fields from Massachusetts 

 southward. July and August. 



It is not apparent why this tall, noticeable plant of the 

 woods should be connected with "Culver." Who was 

 Culver? Perhaps a quack doctor, who found secret healing 

 virtues in the root of this plant. I find no recognition of 

 his services elsewhere in botanical or medical works, and no 

 other floral monument to his memory. 



Neckweed. Purslane Speedwell 

 V. peregrtna. — Color, whitish. Wheel - shaped corolla shorter 

 than the calyx, open, spreading. Flowers, short - pedicelled or 

 sessile in axils of the upper small leaves. Fruit, a nearly round 

 capsule, notched at apex. Leaves, the lower pair nearly 1 inch 

 long, broader than those higher up on the stem, which are alter- 

 nate, small, lance-shaped. 



An annual, a weed in moist ground in all the Eastern 

 States. 



Eyebright 



Euphrasia Oakesii (name means "cheerfulness"). — Family, 

 Figwort. Color, white, with a yellow center, the " eye," and purplish 

 veins (see Variegated Flowers, p. 374). Calyx, tubular, bell-shape, 

 4-cleft. Corolla, 2 -lipped, the upper lip with 2 broad, spreading 

 lobes under which the 4 stamens arise. Lower lip 3 -cleft; all the 

 lobes notched. Leaves, those among the flowers bristly-toothed; 

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