7. V. Aublètia, L. Slender, 1° high or less, soft-pubescent or glabrate; leaves (1–2´ long) ovate or ovate-oblong in outline, with a wedge-shaped base, incisely lobed and toothed, often more deeply 3-cleft; bracts shorter than or equalling the calyx; limb of reddish-purple or lilac (rarely white) corolla 6–8´´ broad.—Open woods and prairies, Ind. and Ill. to Fla., Ark., and N. Mex.
2. LÍPPIA, Houst.
Calyx short, often flattened, 2–4-toothed, or 2-lipped. Corolla 2-lipped; upper lip notched, the lower much larger, 3-lobed. Stamens included. Style slender; stigma obliquely capitate. Fruit 2-celled, 2-seeded. (Dedicated to Augustus Lippi, an Italian naturalist and traveller.)
1. L. lanceolàta, Michx. (Fog-fruit.) Creeping extensively, roughish, green; leaves oblanceolate or wedge-spatulate, serrate above; peduncles axillary, slender, exceeding the leaves, bearing solitary closely bracted heads of bluish-white flowers; bracts mucronate or pointless.—River-banks, E. Penn. to Minn., south to Fla. and Tex. July–Sept.
2. L. cuneifòlia, Steud. Diffusely branched from a woody base, procumbent (not creeping), minutely canescent throughout; leaves rigid, cuneate-linear, incisely 2–6-toothed above the middle; peduncles axillary, mostly shorter than the leaves; bracts rigid, broadly cuneate, abruptly acuminate; corolla white (?).—Plains, W. Neb. to central Kan. and Arizona.
3. CALLICÁRPA, L.
Calyx 4–5-toothed, short. Corolla tubular-bell-shaped, 4–5-lobed, nearly regular. Stamens 4, nearly equal, exserted; anthers opening at the apex. Style slender, thickened upward. Fruit a small berry-like drupe, with 4 nutlets.—Shrubs, with scurfy pubescence, and small flowers in axillary cymes. (Name formed of κάλλος, beauty, and καρπός, fruit.)
1. C. Americàna, L. (French Mulberry.) Leaves ovate-oblong with a tapering base, acuminate, toothed, whitish beneath; cymes many-flowered; calyx obscurely 4-toothed; corolla bluish; fruit violet-color.—Rich soil, Va. to Tex., thence north to Mo. May–July.
4. PHRỲMA, L. Lopseed.
Calyx cylindrical, 2-lipped; the upper lip of 3 bristle-awl-shaped teeth; the lower shorter, 2-toothed. Corolla 2-lipped; upper lip notched; the lower much larger, 3-lobed. Stamens included. Style slender; stigma 2-lobed. Fruit dry, in the bottom of the calyx, oblong, 1-celled and 1-seeded. Seed orthotropous. Cotyledons convolute round their axis.—A perennial herb, with slender branching stems, and coarsely toothed ovate leaves, the lower long-petioled; the small opposite flowers in elongated and slender terminal spikes, strictly reflexed in fruit. Corolla purplish or rose-color. (Derivation of the name unknown.)