FAMILIES OF PLANTS 
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Lithospermum pilosum.—T he plant produces numerous, soft-hairy 
stems which grow about a foot high. The leaves vary from linear 
to lance-shaped and are sessile. The flowers are pale yellow or green¬ 
ish yellow and the calyx and coroll a-tube are about equal in length. 
Lithospermum angustifoliwn is similar, but the corolla-tube is 
more than twice as long as the calyx. The earlier flowers are bright 
yellow while the later ones are pale. 
Lithospermum gmelinii has 
orange-yellow flowers. 
Lithospermum lanceolatum has 
also been reported in the park. 
Lithospermum is commonly known 
as gromwell. 
VERVAIN FAMILY (VER- 
RENACEAE) 
A small family of herbs with 
opposite or whorled leaves and 
somewhat irregular flowers. Rep¬ 
resented here only by the Ground 
vervain ( Verbena bracteosa) , a hairy 
plant with pinnately cut or three- 
cleft and coarsely toothed leaves 
and purplish-blue flowers. 
MINT FAMILY (MENTHACEAE, 
LAMIACEAE OR LARIATAE) 
The plants of this family have 
quite well marked family char¬ 
acteristics by which they are usu¬ 
ally quite readily recognized. The 
corolla is usually decidedly irregu¬ 
lar, having two lips, the upper of 
which may be either entire or two- 
lobed, and the lower three-lobed. 
Furthermore, the stems are usually 
square, and the leaves are oppo¬ 
site and have a characteristic mint figure 84 .— Alpine forget-me-not. Blue, 
odor. Some members of the family Copyright, j. e. Haynes, 
are used in medicines and others are used for flavoring candies and 
chewing gums. 
Skullcap ( Scutellaria galericulata) .—The plant gets its name from 
a helmetlike appendage on the back of the upper lip of the two- 
