Descriptive Flora 



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SipTtonoglosm pUosella (Nees) Torr. False Honeysuckle. 



Low plants, usually 2 to 10 inches high, with weak hairy 

 stems, opposite leaves and a lavender flower with a large, 

 spreading, 3-lobed lower lip one flower in the axil of each leaf. 

 Leaf-blades spatulate to oval or ovate, about % inch long, entire. 

 Corolla-tube deep lavender or pale violet, narrow, % inch long, 

 divided at the top into 2 widely spreading lips. Upper lip small, 

 narrow, usually turned back, and notched at the tip. Lower lip 

 large, y 2 inch broad, broader than long, with 3 large spreading 

 lobes and a white spot near the throat. Eoadside and waste 

 places where there is little other vegetation. 



Diantliera amerioana L. Water Willow. 



Smooth, white-flowered, erect plants rooted in mud or stand- 

 ing half submerged in shallow running water. Leaves simple, 

 opposite. Blades usually narrowly lanceolate, 1 to 4 inches long. 

 Flowers white or purplish, in pairs, close together on the ends 

 of long slender axillary peduncles. Corolla 2-lipped. Upper lip 

 turned back, notched. Lower lip deeply 3-lobed, the middle lobe 

 purplish on the inner side. Stamens 4. Spring to fall. 



MARTYNIACEAE. Unicorn-Plant Family. 



Marty mia fragrans Lindl. DeviPs Horns. Ram's Horns. 



Unicorn Plant. 



Spreading, thick-stemmed, sprawling plants with sticky 

 stems, leaves, flowers and fruits, and blossoms resembling those 

 of our ornamental Catalpa and Flowering Willow trees. Leaves 

 simple, alternate or opposite. Blades broadly ovate or rounded, 

 1 to 4" long, with 3 to 5 veins at base, wavy entire margins and 

 the lobes frequently unequal at the base. Leaf -stalks as long as or 

 longer than the blades. Flowers showy, tubular, lilac-tinted, 1 to 

 11/2 inches long and about as broad, and with 4 broad lobes, the 

 lower lobe lined with yellow within. Throat and stamens finely 

 dotted with purple. Upper lip short, turned backward, dotted 

 with brown or red and covered with tiny, glistening, gland-tipped 



