Plate 30. 
COMMON 
VERVAIN. 
VERBENA 
OFFICINAL! 
THE VERVAIN FAMINE (ORDER iyiiiVERBENACET.) 
CALYX of 4 cr 5 SEPALS, united into a tube and separating 
into 2-5 teeth,*, fret from & inserted below tine seedcase. 
COROLLA of 5 PETALS, united into a tube and spreading, 
into a 5-lcbed Limb which, is usually 2-tobecUbiiabiato. 
rarely salver- sin aped, inserted below the seedcase (hy- 
pOQvnous) 
STAMENS 4; in unequal pairs (didi y mamous), inserted on 
the corolla-tube ( e pLpetaLo us ; , tKe upper pair often imperfect. 
PISTIL of 2 CARPELS, uni ted into an entire sccdcase not 
Lobed but 2- or 4 -celled ,and tapering into a style and 
a pin-l\ead-UKe (capitate) or sometimes, a 
2-lobed stigma. 
FRUPla berry-like drupe, era capsuhpor 
splitting when ripe into 2 ora little nuts 
(cocca\each of which contains one erect seed 
LEAVES usual Ly opposite, without stipules 
FLOWERS in spikes, heads, or various clustery 
rarely solitary 
DISTINGUISHED from the Dcact-Nettlc Fam- 
itv fLabiateas), which, members of this order 
resemble, by the pistil, which differs in the 
seedcase being entire with the style rising 
from its apex, instead of the seedcase be- 
ing 4 -Lobed with the style rising from 
the base and centre of the lobes asinthe 
Dead Nettle Family 
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calyx & corolla g°^ xas calyx pistil fruit 
„ natural size 
flower A bract 
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