THE AMERICAN BOTAXIST. 
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not of hrumv), our l-,lacklxTrv. steals a march into his 
,-anIcn iind disturbs his teutonic n.ols. Such are the 
The hollyhock, emulating tiie classic bean-stalk of 
Jack, as])ires heavenward, decker! out with red or white 
posies. These are silken pavilious ever open to trouba- 
dour iKes. (brasses ,uro\v waist (:eep,and plantains make 
broad their phvlactc-ries. 
A stran-er, visitin- our vani. would consider it in 
friohtful disorder. We, vie win- it from another stand- 
point, ])ronounce that here is the rei,^n of law. There is a 
THE SUBORDER BILABIATIFLOR/E OF THE 
COi^POSIT/E. 
BY W. W. MUXSON. 
|N Florida I .i^ave mvselt the pleasure of hunting out 
-I that ; .aai tliat constitutes the third suborder of the 
Conipositic, namely, the Labiatitloric, a single species of a 
single '^(inus—Chaptulia towcntosa. In southern Califor- 
nia, too, there would be only the two suborders, TubuH- 
llora- and Ligulith)rie, but for a single species of the one 
genus Pcrezin wicroccphala constituting by itself the 
L.d)iatiflorre for BiIal)iatiflorie if you choosc)"of the Corn- 
While theI-]( r!i..L pL-mt is a stemless little thing grow- 
ing in uet places. u> \\ ooly leaves and scape but a few 
m.hes high, the California plant has a stout stem as tall 
as a man, and grows in the bhizing sunshine along road- 
sides iitifi hiil-sides as dry as if baked in an oven through- 
out its life except for a few weeks in early spring when it 
ir.ay have the benefit of a few showers. Its large, wavy 
lettuce-like leaves are asgreen and shinning, and its purple 
tlowers nested in their hard solid involucres are as fresh 
as eastern asters are in Sejitember, except, to be sure, that 
some of the plants are maturing, the leaves drv-ing and 
