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Title: An illustrated guide to the flowering plants of the middle Atlantic and New England states (excepting the grasses and sedges) the descriptive text written in familiar language
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Stevens, George T. (George Thomas), 1832-1921
Subjects: Plants
Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead and company
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
Digitizing Sponsor: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden

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ceding (of which this is a sub-order, according to Engler, buthere advanced to an order in the interest of simplicity and con-venience). Nutlets 1- to 2-seeded.Corolla 2-lipped. Ovary not lobed, 2- to 4-celled . . VERBENACEAEOvary 4-lobed around the style, the lobes ripening into 1-seeded nutlets LABIATAE Nutlets several seeded. Flowers regular, stamens 5; ovary 2-celled SOLANACEAEFlowers more or less irregular, mostly 2-)ippe(l; stamens 2 or 4 SCHROPHULARIACEAE Flowers 2-lipped. Marsh or water plants without leavesor with leaves, mostly thread-like at tlie root lENTIBULARIACEAE Flowers 2-lipped, plants nearly destitute of green, para-sites OROBANCHACEAE Flowers trumpet-shaped, somewliat irregular; vines mid trees BIGONIACEAE Corolla 5-lobed, nearly regular, 2-lippcd, stamens 4, 2long, 2 short; ovary 2-celled, the cells several seeded ACANTHACEAE Corolla nearly cylindric, 2-lipped; ovary 1-celled, 1-seeded. Calyx in fruiting season reflexed to side ofstem PHRYMACEAE VERVAIN FAMILY 517
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Plate 1291 Boracro officinalis. 2. Lycopsis arvensis. 3. Ecliium vulgare. 4 \ er-bena urticifolia. 5. V. hastata. G. V. angustifolia. 7 V. officinalis 8.Symphytum officinale. 9. Lippa lanceolata. 518 VERBENACEAE Family I.—VERBENACEAE. Vervain Family American species, herbs, rarely shrubs, with opposite or whorledleaves. Corolla of our species 4- or 5-lobed, generally regular ormore or less 2-lippe(l, generally with a cylindric tube and spread-ing 4- or 5-lobed border. Stamens attached to corolla tube gen-erally not the same number as the corolla lobes, often 4, 2 of whichare longer than the other 2. Sometimes there are 2 stamens andin other cases 5, alternate with the corolla lobes. Pistil simplewith one or two caps (stigmas). Ovary superior to the calyx andcorolla; the fruit composed of 2 nutlets (carpels) wliich at ma-turity split into 4. I. VERBENA, L. American species, herbs. Leaves opposite or in whorls, with notchedor deeply incised borders. Flowers in slender spikes; corolla

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