Mt>*NAMIA ANdlOSPERMIA. 
Root perennial. Stem creeping, throwing out roots and offsets, finally 
assurgent, four angled and with the whole plant hairy. Leaves opposite, 
ovate, lanceolate, somewhat 3-lobed, with the lobes notched and toothed, 
dotted on the upper surface, tapering at base to a slightly winged petiole 
about an inch long. Floivers in terminal spikes so crowded that when 
flowering they resemble a corymb, bracteas linear at the base of eacii 
flower, about half as long as the calyx. Calyx angled with the border 5 
cleft, segments setaceous, unequal. Corolla somewhat hypocrateriform, 
purple, tube nearly twice as long as the calyx, enlarged at the sum- 
mit and cloathed with hair, border 5 cleft, expanding. Filaments very 
short in the tube of the corolla, the longer pair very villous. The Style 
as long as the tube. Stigma obliquely capitate. Seeds four, oblong, dot- 
ted. 
Grows ill the dry pine barrens of the middle country of Carolina and 
Georgia. 
Flowers April — September. 
2. Spuria. 
V. cauie decum- 
bente, ramosissirno, 
divaricato ; foliis mul- 
ti fido laciniatis, spicis 
filiformibus ; bracteis 
calyce superantibus. 
Stem decumbent, 
branching, divaricate; 
leaves laciniate, much 
divided; spikes fili- 
form; bracteas longer 
than the calyx. 
Sp. pi. 1. p. 119 . Mich. 2. p. 14. Pursh 2. p 416. 
Nearly glabrous. Stem angled. Leaves sessile, deeply laciniate, 
somewhat pinnatifid, tapering at base, segments serrate, acute. Spikes 
somewhat paniculate. Flowers at first crowded, afterwards by the elong^ 
ation of the stem distinct and scattered. Corolla small, purple. . 
Grows in Carolina. MuhL 
Flowers. 
3. Hastata. 
V . erecta, elatior ; 
foliis lanceolatis, acu- 
minatis, insciso serra- 
tis, nonnullis insciso- 
^astatis; spicis lifiear- 
vol, ir, • 
Erect, tall; leases 
lanceolate, acuminate, 
sharply serrate, some- 
times notched and 
hastate ; spikes line* 
