2-t2 VKKVAIX FAMILY. 



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

 with purple (lower-. 



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

 leaves obovate or oblong, serrate, -. --ile ; spikes thiek and dense ; flowers blue, 

 larger than in the other-. 



V. hastata, BLUE V. Stem 4-0high; leaves lance-oblong, some of 

 the larger with short side lobes at liase, eut-serrate, petioled : spike-, den-, ly- 

 flowered, eorvmbed or paniclcd : (lowers blue. 



V. Urticif61ia, Ni.i ru>i.i.\\ i n or WHITE V. Stem 4-6liigli; 

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

 flowers slender anil loose. 



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

 l-3 high, branched; leaves sessile, 3-cleft and mostly pinnatitid into narrow 

 cut-toothed lobes; small purplish (lowers in very slender panicled >pikes. 



V. braotebsa. From \Vi>consin S. ; hairy, spreading or procumbent ; 

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

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



2. VERBENAS of the qardtn sort, u-itk creeping or spreading stems, and dense 

 spikrs of larger or showy flowers : anthers of the oy<<>- stamens with a 



V. Aubletia. Wild from 111. and Carolina \V. & S. : has cut-pinnatifid 

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

 throat. This and the sev :ral following species from South Brazil, Buenos 

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

 our gardens in summer. 



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

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

 in a Hat 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. Krect 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 MULTIFIDA. Dwarf and much creeping, rough-hairy, 

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

 flowers, and 



V. pulchdlla or TEXERA, with equally finely cut leaves, and rather larger 

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



3. I/fPPIA. (Named for .1. Li/>j>i, an Italian botanist.) Fl. late summer. 



L. laiiceolata, FOG-FRIMT. A creeping weedv herb, along river-banks 



from I'enn. S. ,.<: \V., with wedge-spatulate or oblaneeo'ate leave- serrate above 

 the middle, and .-lender peduncles from the axils bearing a head of bluish 

 small flower-. 



Li. citriodbra (or AI.OYSIA), the LEMON-XCK\TKI> or Swi;i;r VERBENA 

 of the u:ird'-ns ; shrub from C'hili, with whorls of linear-lanceolate fragrant 

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

 blender spikes. 



4. L ANT ANA. (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 Bowers odorous, ir 

 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. 



