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59. LABIATE. 
opaca (Fries) with spatliulate sep. and fewer seeds is probably 
British. Koch says that its stamens are inserted much higher up 
the cor. than in either of its allies.] — Fields and waste places. 
A. IV. — IX. Green field Speedwell. 
16. V. polita (¥nes) ; 1. all stalked cordate-ovate inciso-ser- 
rate, sep. broadly ovate acute, stain, inserted at the very bottom 
of tbe cor., caps, of 2 turgid lobes, seeds 8 — 10 in a cell. — E. B. 
783. St. 58. 16. R. I. f. •404.405. — St. procumbent. Caps, with 
short dense pubescence, rarely glabrous. L. usually shorter than 
the peduncles. FI. wholly blue.-^/3. grandifiora ; cor. as large 
as that of V. Buxbaumii. — Fields and waste places. /3. Berwick- 
shire, and near Cambridge and Bury St. Edmonds. A. IV. — IX. 
Gray field Speedwell. 
*17- V. Buxbaumii (Ten.); 1. all stalked cordate-ovate inciso- 
serrate, sep. lanceolate acute, stam. from the bottom of the cor., 
caps, of 2 divaricated lobes compressed upwards and sharply 
keeled, seeds about 8 in a cell. — E. B. S. 2769. St. 56. 5. R. 1. 
4.30. 431. — St. long, procumbent. L. shorter than the jieduncles. 
FI. twice the size of those of the preceding, as large as those of 
V.Chamcedrys, blue. — In fields and cultivated land in many places. 
A. IV.— IX. 
18. V. hederifolia (L.); 1. with 5 — 7 large toothlike lobes all 
stalked, sep. cordate ciliated, caps, of 2 turgid lobes, seeds 2 in 
each cell. — E. B. 784. St. 56. 6. — St. procumbent, fl. pale blue. 
— Fields and banks. A. IV. — VI. Ivy-leaved Speedwell. 
Order LIX. LABIATE. 
Cal. tubular, regular or 2-lipped, persistent. Cor. 2-hpped, 
upper lip entire or bifid, lower 3-cleft. Stam. 4, didynamous, 
rarely 2. Ovary free, 4-lobed. Style 1, from the base of the 
lobes ; stigma bifid. Fr. in 1 — 4 small nutlike portions. 
Tribe I. MENTHOIDEyE. Cor. bellshaped, nearly regular. 
Stam. dist.ant, straight. 
1. Mentha. Cor. 4-fid, tube very short. Cal. equal, 5- 
toothed. Stam. 4, anth. -cells parallel. — G. F. G. Gam. ii. 
5. 6. 
2. Lycopus. Cor. 4-fid, scarcely longer than the equal 5- 
toothed calyx. Stam. 2, anther-cells ])arallel or ultimately 
divergent, 2 upper stam. 0 or ruchmentary, or rarely perfect. 
— G. F. G. Gam. ii. 7- 
