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Descriptive Flora 



Lantana horrida H. B. K. 



Lantana. 



Bunch-berry. 



Bushy plant with rough, prickly, square stems and flat-top- 

 ped, parti-colored clusters of yellow and orange-red verbena- 

 like flowers. Leaves simple, opposite. Blades ovate or broader, 

 rough above, veiny beneath, coarsely saw-toothed on the margin. 

 Corolla tubular, with 4 or 5 broad, blunt lobes that make it 14" 

 across the top. Flowers followed by globular clusters of shiny, 

 purplish, stone fruits, the size of small peas. Blossoms con- 

 tinuously from spring to fall. Often cultivated for ornament. 

 Rare here but very common in the sandy soil to the south of the 

 city. 



Callicarpa americana L. French Mulberry. 



A bushy shrub, 2 to 6 feet high, with scurfy stems, large, 

 opposite leaves and small branched bunches of rose-pink or light 

 phlox-purple flowers in the axils of the upper leaves. Leaves 

 simple, opposite. Blades elliptic or oval, narrowed at both ends, 

 saw-toothed, glabrous above, scurfy-pubescent underneath. 

 Petioles y 2 to 2 inches long. Corolla 4-lobed, about Vs" across. 

 Stamens 4, equal, conspicuous, extending beyond the corolla. 

 Flowers followed by small, globular, violet or lilac stone fruits, 

 smaller than peas. June to fall. Low grounds along streams. 

 Rare. A very ornamental plant both in flower and in fruit. 



MENTHACEAE. Mint Family. 



LAMIACEAE. Mint Family, In Small's Flora. 



KEY TO MENTHACEAE. Mint Family. 



A. Leaves compound. 



I. Leaves pinnately compound. 

 (1) Corolla scarlet 



B. Leaves simple, opposite. 



1. Leaves with 1 main vein at base, 

 a. Flowers pink to red. 



m. Corolla scarlet 



n. Corolla not scarlet. 



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