DIAXDRIA, MONOGYXIA. K 



(sometimes crenate). The 2 fertile fila- 

 ments transversely pedicellate. A'utt. 



1. S. radical leaves lyrate and toothed, galla of the lymta. 

 corolla very short ; stem nearly without leaves, 

 hairy backwards. Vahl. Willd. 

 Icon. Moris, hist. 3. s. 11. t. 13. f. 27. (Pursh). 



Lyre-leaved Sage. 



This plant, in favourable situations, is not destitute of beauty. 

 It growl to the height of two feet, but is commonly one. 

 Flowen blue. In meadows, fields, and the borders of fences, 

 anil hedge-row*, every where near the city. Abundant. 

 Perennial. May. 



16. Collixsokia. Gen. pi. 51. (Labiate.) 



QaL bilabiate, above 3 -toothed, below bifid. 

 Cor. much longer than the calix, somewhat 

 funnel-formed, unequally 5-lobed ; the low- 

 er lobe longer, lacerately fimbriate (or 

 fringed). Stamina 2, sometimes 4. Seeds 

 4, — 3 of them mostly abortive. Nutt. 



1. C. leaves broad-cordate-ovate, smooth, calix canademi*. 

 teeth short-subulate, pannick compound, terminal. 

 Pursh. 

 Icon. Lin. hort. cliff. 14. t. 5. (Pursh). 



Horse-weed. Knot-root. Rich-xveed- Horse-balm. 



A very beautiful plant in full bloom ; from two to three, 

 rarely four, feet tall. Flowers large, yellow, leaves below 

 petiolated, above sessile. In rich soil, and generally in um- 

 brageous and hilly woods ; in the woods along the Schuylkill, 

 particularly the west side, from the uppe.* ferry to the falls, 

 not rare. Also in the woods between Kingsess gardens 

 (Bartram's) and Graj's ferry, frequent Perennial" July, 

 August. 



