. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. didynamous, included, the anterior pair the longer; anthers 2-celled, or those of the anterior pair more or less imperfect, the sacs divaricate. Style 2-cleft at the summit, lobes obtuse. Ovary 4-lobed. Nutlets obovoid, smooth. [Greek, iron, referring to its medicinal use.] About 45 species, native of the Old World, most numerous in the Orient. Type species: Si


. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. didynamous, included, the anterior pair the longer; anthers 2-celled, or those of the anterior pair more or less imperfect, the sacs divaricate. Style 2-cleft at the summit, lobes obtuse. Ovary 4-lobed. Nutlets obovoid, smooth. [Greek, iron, referring to its medicinal use.] About 45 species, native of the Old World, most numerous in the Orient. Type species: Sideritis hirsute L. i. Sideritis romana L. Simple-beaked Iron-wort. Fig. 3589- Sideritis romana L. Sp. PI. 575. 1753. Annual, softly pubescent with spreading hairs, the stem erect, 4'-i° tall, usually branched. Leaves obovate to oblong, l'-ij' long, crenate, sessile or nearly so, ultimately somewhat veiny; clusters few-flowered; flowers white or pinkish; calyx-teeth shorter than the tube, the middle one of the upper lip ovate, all subulate-tipped; corolla slightly exceeding the calyx, the middle lobe of the lower lip reniform. In fields, southeastern Pennsylvania. Naturalized from the Mediterranean region. Also in Bermuda. June-Aug. 8. AGASTACHE Clayt.; Gron. Fl. Virg. [Vleckia Raf. Med. Rep. (II.) 5: 308. 1808.] [Lophanthus Benth. Bot. Reg. 15: under pi. 1282. 1829. Not Adans. 1763.] Tall erect perennial herbs, with serrate, mainly ovate, petioled leaves, and yellowish purplish or blue flowers, verticillate-clustered in thick dense or interrupted bracted terminal spikes. Calyx narrowly campanulate, somewhat oblique, slightly 2-lipped, 5-toothed, the teeth of the upper lip somewhat larger than those of the lower, or all about equal. Corolla strongly 2-lipped, the tube as long as the calyx; upper lip erect, 2-lobed; lower lip spreading, 3-lobed, its middle lobe broader than the lateral ones and crenulate. Stamens 4, all anther- bearing, didynamous, the upper pair the longer; ant


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