. 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 FLORA. Vervain. Verbena. * Showy Verbenas: low and phowy-flowered species, in gardsns in summer, the greater part from Soulli America, viz. V. JiJcliiidres (red) and otliers, now mucii mixed. And there is one species of tiiis sort wild ill Western prairies, viz.: — 1. AuBLEi's Verbena. Eather hairy; leaves pinnatifid or cut; spikes flat-topped in blossom, like a
. 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 FLORA. Vervain. Verbena. * Showy Verbenas: low and phowy-flowered species, in gardsns in summer, the greater part from Soulli America, viz. V. JiJcliiidres (red) and otliers, now mucii mixed. And there is one species of tiiis sort wild ill Western prairies, viz.: — 1. AuBLEi's Verbena. Eather hairy; leaves pinnatifid or cut; spikes flat-topped in blossom, like a corymb; corolla light purple, &c. V. Auhletia. If * Common Vervains: weeds or weed-like plants, in fields and road-sides, with small flowers in long spikes, which are generally panicled. 2. V. Erect, slenderly branched, 1° to 3° high; leaves sessile, cleft or pinnatifld and cut- toothed; spikes very slender; flowers very small, purplish. V. officinalis. 3. White V. Leavespetioled, ovate or oval, serrate; spikes of white flowers very slender. V. uriicifblia. 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. hastaia. 6. Low V. Stems Jo to 1° high; leaves lance-linear, sessile, scarcely toothed; spikes one or few, thickish; flowers purple. S. and W. V. angmtifblia. 63. SAGE OR MINT FAMILY. Order LABIATtE. 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-lipped 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 wai-m aromatic properties which
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