. Botany for young people and common schools : how plants grow : a simple introduction to structural botany : with a popular flora, or, an arrangement and description of common plants, both wild and cultivated . Botany; Botany. 178 POPULAR FLOKA. Vervain. Verbena. * Showy Verbenas : low and showy-flowered species, in gardens in summer, the greater part from South America, viz. V. Mtlindres (red) and others, now much mixed. And there is one species of this sort wild in Western prairies, viz.: — 1. AuBLET's Verbena. Rather hairy; leaves pinnatifid or cut; spikes flat-topped in blossom, like a co
. Botany for young people and common schools : how plants grow : a simple introduction to structural botany : with a popular flora, or, an arrangement and description of common plants, both wild and cultivated . Botany; Botany. 178 POPULAR FLOKA. Vervain. Verbena. * Showy Verbenas : low and showy-flowered species, in gardens in summer, the greater part from South America, viz. V. Mtlindres (red) and others, now much mixed. And there is one species of this sort wild in Western prairies, viz.: — 1. AuBLET's Verbena. Rather hairy; leaves pinnatifid or cut; spikes flat-topped in blossom, like a corymb; corolla light purple, &o. V. Aubletia. * * Common Veevains : weeds or weed-like plants, in fields and road-sides, with small flowers in long spikes, which are generally panicled. 2. Common V. Erect, slenderly branched, 1° to Z° high; leaves sessile, cleft or pinnatifid and cut^ toothed; spikes very slender; flowers very small, purplish. V. officinalis. o. White V. Leavespetioled, ovate or oval, serrate; spikes of white flowers very slender. V. uriicifdlia. 4. Blue V. Leaves petioled, lance-shaped or lance-oblong, the lower often cut or 2-lobed at the base; spikes of blue flowers thick and close; stem 4° to 6° high. V. Jiastdta. 6. Low V. Stems 4° to 1° high; leaves lance-linear, sessile, scarcely toothed^ spikes one or few, thickish; flowers purple. S. and W. V. angustlfolia. 63. SAGE OR MINT FAMILY. Order LABIATJ?:. Herbs with square stems and opposite aromatic leaves, a 2-lipped (or rather irregular) corolla, 4 stamens in pairs (2 long and 2 shorter), or else only 2 sta- mens, and a 4-parted ovary, in fruit making 4 akenes around the base of the single style. That is, among the families with 2-lipped1 or irregular monopetalous corollas this is at once known by the 4- lobed ovary, making 4 akenes. The leaves are commonly more or less dotted with small glands, which contain a volatile oil, peculiar to each species. This gives the wann aromatic propertie^vhich
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