550 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 
New Mexico: Dulce; Sierra Grande; Las Huertas Canyon; Santa Fe and Las 
Vegas mountains; mountains west of Grant; Ramah; Agua Fria Spring; White and 
Sacramento mountains. Meadows in the mountains, in the Transition Zone. 
Plants of this species sometimes have rose-colored flowers and in a specimen from 
Fresnal the corolla is white. 
8. Verbena neomexicana (A. Gray) Small, Fl. Southeast. U.S. 1010. 1903. 
Verbena officinalis hirsuta Torr. U. 8. & Mex. Bound. Bot. 128. 1859. 
Verbena canescens neomexicana A, Gray, Syn. Fl. 2': 337. 1878. ’ 
TYPE LOCALITY: Santa Rita, New Mexico. 
Rance: Western Texas to southern Arizona and Chihuahua. 
New Mexico: Socorro Mountain; mountains west of San Antonio; Mogollon Moun- 
tains; Kingston; Gray; White Mountains. Low mountains, in the Upper Sonoran 
and Transition zones. 
9. Verbena perennis Wooton, Bull. Torrey Club 25: 363. 1898. 
TYPE Locatiry: Crevices of rocks along the road about 2 miles west of the Mescalero 
Agency, in the White Mountains, New Mexico. Type collected by Wooton in 1897. 
Rana@e: Mountains of southern New Mexico. 
New Mexico: White Mountains; Capitan Mountains; Queen; plains south of Tor- 
rance. Upper Sonoran Zone. 
2. LIPPIA L. 
Branched shrub, about 1 meter high, with slender stems, small, ovate, crenate- 
serrate, strongly scented leaves, and terminal spikes of small white flowers; bracts 
ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, about the length of the calyx; calyx about 2 mm. long, 
with 4 acute equal lobes, densely white-hirsute; corolla about twice the length of 
the calyx, glabrous within; nutlets thin-walled. 
1. Lippia wrightii A. Gray, Amer. Journ. Sci. IT. 16: 98. 1853. 
Type LocaLity: Not stated; probably western Texas. 
Ranae: Western Texas to southern Arizona and adjacent Mexico. 
New Mexico: Rio Alamosa; Magdalena Mountains; Socorro; Mangas Springs; 
Florida Mountains; Dona Ana and Organ mountains; Capitan Mountains; Burro 
Mountains; Orogrande; White Mountains. Rocky hills, in the Lower Sonoran Zone. 
8. PHYLA Lour. 
Prostrate herbs, green and glabrate or strigillose, with simple leaves, the small 
flowers in bracted heads or very short spikes; calyx 2-toothed; corolla 2-lipped, the 
upper lip notched, the lower 3-lobed; stamens 4, didynamous; style short and slender, 
the stigma oblique; fruit of 2 nutlets inclosed in a persistent calyx. 
KEY TO THE SPECIES. 
Leaves broadly lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, acute, decurrent . 
into a short petiole, bright green, with about 15 serrate teeth... 1. P. lanceolata. 
Leaves narrowly to broadly cuneate, sometimes oblanceolate, with 
no proper petiole, cinereous, with a few coarse teeth above 
the middle. 
Peduncles little or not at all exceeding the leaves............. 2. P. cunetfolia. 
Peduncles 2 to 5 times the length of the leaves................. 3. P. incisa, 
1. Phyla lanceolata (Michx.) Greene, Pittonia 4: 47. 1899. 
Lippia lanceolata Michx. F1. Bor. Amer. 2: 15. 1803. 
Type Locauity: “ Hab. in Carolina, juxta amniculum.”’ 
Rance: Colorado southward and across the continent. 
New Mexico: Roswell (Karle 355). Lower Sonoran Zone. 
