242 VERVAIN FAMILY. 



row lanceolate, sessile, roughish, slightly toothed ; spikes few, thickish, crowded 

 with purple flowers. 



V. Stricta, HOARY V. Barrens W. & S. : whitish-hairy, l-2 high; 

 leaves obovate or oblong, serrate, sessile ; spikes thick and dense ; flowers blue, 

 larger than in the others. 



V. kastata, BLUE V. Stem 4 - 6 high ; leaves lance-oblong, some of 

 the larger with short side lobes at base, cut-serrate, petioled ; spikes densely- 

 flowered, corymbed or panicled ; flowers blue. 



V. urticifdlia, NETTLE-LEAVED or WHITE V. Stem 4 -6 high; 

 leaves oval or oblong-ovate, coarsely serrate, petioled ; spikes of small white 

 flowers slender and loose. 



V. officinalis, EUROPEAN V. Nat. by roadsides, at least S. Stems 

 1 - 3 high, branched ; leaves sessile, 3-cleft and mostly pinnatifid into narrow 

 cut-toothed lobes ; small purplish flowers in very slender panicled spikes. 



V. bractebsa. From Wisconsin S. ; hairy, spreading or procumbent ; 

 leaves wedge-shaped or lance-oblong, cut-pinnatifid or 3-cleft, short-petioled ; 

 small purple flowers in solitary loose spikes, the lower ones leafy-bracted. 



2. VERBENAS of the garden sort, with creeping or spreading stems, and dense 

 spikes of larger or showy flowers : anthers of the longer stamens with a 

 gland-like tip. 1 



V. Aubtetia. Wild from 111. and Carolina W. & S. : has cut-pinnatifid 

 leaves, and a long-peduncled spike of purple flowers, minutely bearded in the 

 throat. This and the several following species from South Brazil, Buenos 

 Ayres, &c., variously and greatly mixed, make up the Verbenas which adorn 

 our gardens in summer. 



V. Chamsedrifolia, the original SCARLET V., with oblong-lanceolate 

 coarsely serrate leaves, nearly all sessile, and most intense red or scarlet flowers, 

 in a flat cluster. 



V. phlogiflbra, also named TWEEDIANA. More upright; the leaves 

 decidedly petioled ; the flowers inclined to form an oblong spike, and crimson, 

 varying to rose, but not to scarlet. 



V. incisa, differs from the last in the pinnatifid-incised leaves, the petioled 

 ones with a heart-shaped base ; flowers in a flat cluster, rose-color or purple. 



V. teucroides. Erect or spreading, with ovate-oblong and incised sessile 

 leaves, and a lengthened spike of white or pale rosy flowers, sweet-scented, 

 especially at nightfall. 



V. erinoides, or MULT^FIDA. Dwarf and much creeping, rough-hairy, 

 with leaves pinnatifid into linear divisions, and originally with violet purple 

 flowers, and 



V. pulch^lla or TENERA, with equally finely cut leaves, and rather larger 

 originally rose-violet flowers, are part parents of the smaller races. 



3. IilPPIA. (Named for A. Lippi, an Italian botanist.) Fl. late summer. 

 L. lanceplata, FOG-FRUIT. A creeping weedy herb, along river-banks 



from Penn. S. & W., with wedge-spatulate or oblanceolate leaves serrate above 

 the middle, and slender peduncles from the axils bearing a head of bluish 

 small flowers. 



L. citrioddra (or ALGESIA), the LEMON-SCENTED or SWEET VERBENA 

 of the gardens ; shrub from Chili, with whorls of linear-lanceolate fragrant 

 leaves, roughish with glandular dots, and small whitish and bluish flowers in 

 slender spikes. 



4. L ANT AN A. (Origin of name obscure.) Tropical or subtropical, 

 mostly shrubby plants, planted out in summer, when they flower freely until 

 frost comes ; stems often rough-prickly ; herbage and flowers odorous, in 

 some pleasant, others not so. The species are much mixed. 



L. Camara, from Tropical America, has flowers deep yellow, turning first 

 to orange, then to red. 



L. mixta, from Brazil, has flowers opening white, soon changing to yel- 

 low, orange, and finally to red. 



