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nutlets mostly 3 mm. long, evenly fine-pitted.—Open woods, Coastal Plain and 
adj. provinces, Fla. to Tex., Ark., and S. C.—Spr.-sum. 
3. a. canadensis (L.) Small. Stem and branches 3-6 dm. long, minutely 
E leaf-blades 3-8 cm. long, typically ovate or deltoid, incised- -pin- 
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nutlets about 3 mm. long, irregularly coarse-pitted. [Verbena Aubletia Jacq. 
canadensis Britton]—Prairies, roadsides, and thickets, various provinces, 
Fla. to Tex., Ill, and Va.—Spr.—sum.—Does "not grow naturally in Canada. 
G. D drum ( eee Small. Stem and branches a dm. long, hirsute: 
leaf-blades 2-5 ¢ vate in out. pam - o tifid, the segments typically 
narrow: — cum ce Ji mm. long: a showy, e rple; tube about 
1-1.5 em. long; lo bed diei eer b rond about 3 mm. ie evenly 
fine-pitte ted. [Verbena Drwmmondi Bax npe s ere = ftom s, and 
woods, various provinces, La. to N. M., Kans., and Va.—Spr.-su 
b. G. tampensis (Nash) Small. Stem and branches ascending or decumbent, 
2-6 dm ; ong usually minutely pubescent: leaf-blades lanceolate to elliptic or 
ovate, 2-8 c . long, coarsely serrate or incised-serrate: calyx 12-15 mm. long, 
the longer lobes setaceous-subulate: e oro purple: tube fully 1.5 em. long: 
utlets 4 mm. long, coarsely pitted on the middle a the apex. [Verbena 
tampensis Nash]-—Sandy hammocks, pen, Fla.—Spr.—fal 
6. tenuisecta (Briq.) Small. Stenf and branches decumbent or proeumbent, 
strigillose ind Ww tee harrowly linear to po Poor iss g: 
m. long; lobes short-setaceous: coro 1 but showy, rose- 
purple, uut ee white; tube about 1 cm. long; lobes noche nutlets 3.5 mm. 
ione pitted Love the middle. [ Verbena tenuisecta Briq.]—Sandy woods, any 
soil and waste-places, sae Plain, Fla. and Ga. to La. Nat. of S. A. — Sum 
see or all year S.—This is the species commonly known as Verbena erinoides 
r Moss VER RBENA. 
G. peruviana a) Small. Stem red branches iie cup and ereeping, 
tube about 2 em. long; lobes notched: nutlets about 4 mm. long, striate- ribbed 
below the middle, cross-ribbed above it. E ena chamaedrifolia Juss. | 
er Seal ocr and roadsides, pen. Fla. Nat. of S. Am—(W. I. Mex., C. A. 
—Spr.—fall. 
4, PHYLA Lour. Perennial procumbent or creeping herbs. Leaf-blades 
toothed or lobed. Flowers in congested axillary spikes, the bracts cuneate to 
flabellate. mks short, flattened, 2-lobed. Corolla 2-lipped: tube slightly 
exceeding the calyx. Fruit as broad as long.—About 30 species, mostly in 
tropical uei IE FROG-FRUITS. 
Plant herbaceous: leaf-blades not rugos 
Leaf- Roi mostly broadest above the middle, toothed 2m above the middle to 
apex: calyx-lobes shorter than the tube: fruit 
a cent at the apex 1. P. a 
Leaf-blades mostly broadest below the middle, toothed 
from below the middle to the apex: calyx-lobes longer 
the tube: fruit glabrous. 
than . P. lanceo 
Plant partly woody below : leaf-blades rugose. 
. P. Stocchadi itu: 
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1. P. nodiflora (L.) Greene. Plants soft-strigillose, with creeping branches 
2-13 dm. long: leaf- blades spatulate, 1-3 em. long: spikes 10-30 mm. long: 
