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PERSONATE. 
a ao ee en : = spore 
VERBENA OFFICINALIS. © COMMON VERVAIN. 
SYNONYMA. Verbena. Pharm, Dale. 148. Alflon. vol. ii. 242. 
Lewis. 660.. Murray. ii. 209. Verbena communis czruleo 
flore. Baubh, Pin. 269. V. mas feu reéta et vulgaris. Park. | 
Theat. 674. V.communis. Gerard. Emac. 718. Raii. Hift. 535. - 
Synop. 236. V. officinalis. Hudf: Flor. Ang. 505. With. Bot. Arr. 
595. Flor, Dan, 628. Flor. Lond. i. 5. 
Didynamia Gymnofpermia.* | : 
Gen. Cb. Cor. infundib. fubsequalis,: curva. Calycis unico dente 
_ truncato. Semina 2.6.4. nuda. Stam. 2. s. 4. 
. 8. Ch. V. tetrandra, fpicis filiformibus paniculatis, foliis multifido- 
laciniatis, caule folitario. — 
ROOT perennial, tapering, fibrous, of a yellowith colour. Stalks 
above a foot high, ereét, tapering, obtufely quadrangular, befet with 
fhort prickles: the branches are oppofite, flender, and fimple. Leaves 
oppofite, feffile, pinnatifid, or deeply and -irregularly indented. 
Flowers numerous, purplifh, placed in long flender fpikes. Calyx 
* Linnzus places the Verbena in the clafs diandria, dividing the different {pecies into 
the diandrous and tetrandrous; but our Englifh fpecies, included among the latter, 
has . the characters of the fourteenth clafs, and is arranged accordingly by Britith 
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