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VERBENA TEUCRIOIDES. GERMANDER- 
LEAVED VERVAIN. 
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Class and Order. 
DipynaMiA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
( Nat. Ord.—VERBENACEZ. ) 
Generic Character. 
Calyx 5-fidus, dente unico subbreviore. Corolle limbus 
irregulariter 5-lobus. Stam. inclusa. Ultriculus tetrasper- 
mus, cito rumpens, ut maturi fructus caryopses sistant. Spr. 
Specific Character and Synonym. 
VERBENA feucrioides ; erecta ramosa pilis rigidis sepissime 
elandulosis ubique vestita, foliis oblongis lanceolatisve 
profunde incisis sessilibus, spicis elongatis densifloris, 
calycibus elongatis post anthesin tortis corolle tubo 
duplo brevioribus. 
Versena teucrioides. Gill. et Hook. in Bot. Miscell. 1. p. 
167, ee = 
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My first knowledge of this charming species of VerBena 
was from specimens communicated by Dr. Gitties from the 
highest ridge of the Uspallata Mountains in South America, 
at an elevation of ten thousand feet above the level of the 
sea. Afterwards Mr. Tweepie sent it from the hill of 
Monte Video, and more abundantly from the Sugar-loaf 
Mountain of Maldonado, marked “ No. 461, Vergena, with 
slightly purple flowers and highly odoriferous.” In August, 
1838, Mr. Nrven of the Glasnevin Botanic Garden favoured — 
me with a beautiful drawing, from which the accompanying 
figure is reduced, of the same interesting plant, which he 
received from ‘the Earl of Arran, and about the same time 
Mr. Hanpasipe, Nurseryman, of Musselburgh, Edinburgh, 
passed 
