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VERBENA paniculata. 
Panicled Vervain. 
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DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Nat. ord. VERBENACER. 
VERBENA. Supra, vol. 4. fol. 294. 
V. paniculata ; caule scabro, foliis petiolatis ovato-lanceolatis acutis insequa- 
liter serratis subtús venoso-reticulatis, spicis filiformibus corymboso-pani- 
culatis floribus imbricatis. 
V. paniculata. Lam. encycl. 8. 548. Pursh fl. Am. sept. 2. 416. Nutt, 
gen. Amer, 2,40. Spreng. syst. 2. 748. 
Caulis erectus, ramosus, quadratus, striatus, scaber. Folia scaberrima, 
ovato-lanceolata, inequaliter (nec grosse) serrata, acuta, subtüs venis promi- 
nentibus reticulata. Spice filiformes, flexuose, nude, 4-5-uncias longe, 
corymboso-paniculate. Flores dense imbricati, in dentibus racheos sessiles. 
Bracteæ rigide, subulate, scabre, calycibus breviores, basi vaginantes. 
Calyx tubulosus, 5-plicatus, 5-dentatus, dentibus minutis, subinequalibus. 
Corolla hypocrateriformis, collo tubi extús pubescente, limbo atro-ceruleo, ore 
intensiore, laciniis obtusis. Stamina 4, breviter pedicellata. 
A hardy perennial, native, according to Pursh, of the 
natural meadows of the high mountains of Virginia and 
Carolina, where it flowers during July and August, growing 
from 4 to 6 feet high. Our drawing was made at the 
Nursery of Messrs. Whitley, Milne, and Co., in September 
1826. 
Pursh was evidently well acquainted with this plant, 
which seems to have been considered doubtful by Mr. 
Nuttall, who asks (gen. 2. 40.) whether his V. hastata 
B. oblongifolia may not be V. paniculata; adding, ‘‘ but the 
flowers are not imbricated, nor in the least corymbose. 
It is obvious, from our figure and description, that the plant 
had been rightly described in both these respects. In fact, 
V. paniculata is as distinct from all other Verbenas as 
V. bonariensis itself. 
