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(1) Shrub (Flowers are usually blue) Salvia — 187 



(2) Plants not shrubs. 



o. Stems white-woolly Marrubium — 183 



p. Stems not white-woolly Stachys — 186 



b. Flowers pink to red. 



(1) Flowers clustered in the axils of the 



sessile leaves . Lamium — 185 



(2) Flowers scarlet, not in the leaf -axils . .Salvia — 186 



c. Flowers blue to purple. 



m. Shrub Salvia— 187 



n. Plants not shrubs. 



r. Calyx finely 13-ribbed Micromeria — 189 



s. Calyx not finely 13-ribbed. 



(1) Calyx closed in fruit. 



o. Calyx toothed .Brazoria — 184 



p. Calyx not toothed Scutellaria— 182-3 



(2) Calyx not closed in fruit. 



o. Flowers purple, clustered in the 



sessile leaf axils Lamium— 185 



p. Flowers blue to violet. 



(1) Corolla large, showy Salviastrum — 187 



(2) Corolla small, inconspicuous Stachys — 186 



Teucrium canadense L. Germander. 



Square-stemmed plants, 1 to 3 feet tall, growing in wet 

 grounds along streams and margins of lakes, and bearing pinkish- 

 purple or purplish flowers in whorls of 4 to 6 along the upper 

 parts of the several ascending branches. Leaves simple, opposite. 

 Blades lanceolate to oblong-ovate, saw-toothed, 2 to 5 inches long. 

 Corolla pinkish to pale lavender, with a large, shell-shaped lower 

 lip dotted with purple and bearing 2 short lobes on each side. 

 Upper lip apparently none as the 4 above mentioned lobes con- 

 stitute this. Stamens 4, exserted from the deep cleft between the 

 uppermost 2 short lobes of the corolla. Calyx cups shallow, 5- 

 toothed, containing 4 seeds when in fruit. April to late summer. 



Scutellaria drummondii Benth. Skullcap. 



Bright little violet flowers bobbing out of queer green 

 calyxes. Leafy, square-stemmed plants, much branched at the 



