1766 



* VERBENA multifida ; var. contracta. 

 Dwarf Purple Vervain, 



DIDYNAMIA A1<!GI0SPERMIA. 



Nat. ord. Verbenace^, Juss. (Introduction to the Natural System of 

 Botany, p. 238.) 



VERBENA.—Supra, vol. A.fol. 294. 



V. multifida ; diffusa pilosa, foliis 3-5-partitis laciniatis, coiymbis subcapltatis 

 pedunculatis, calycibus hispide pilosis, coroUae laciniis patentibus emarginatis. 



V. multifida. Flora Peruv. vol. l.p. 21. tab. 33./. c. Syst. p. 338. (^1798.) 



V. erinoides. Willd. enum.p. 634. no. 12. (1809 \)~Hooker Bot. Misc. 1. 

 168. 



Erinus laciniatus, Linn. Sp. PL 879. 



" Lychnidea Verbenas tenuifolice folio, vulgo Sandia Laguen. Feuill. Per. v. 

 3. t. 25." 



One of the commonest of all plants on the alps of Chile 

 and Mendoza, growing according to Dr. Gillies to the 

 elevation of 8000 feet above the level of the sea ; and vary- 

 ing extremely in the colour of the flowers, in stature, and 

 in the des^ree in which the leaves are cut. In some indi- 

 viduals the flowers are said to be scarlet, in others blue, in 

 the case before us purplish, and we can scarcely doubt that 

 the V. sulphurea of fol. 1748 is in reality another form. 



It is a hardy perennial ; and one of its more robust 

 varieties is now a common ornament of the flower garden, 

 over which it runs during the summer, forming patches 

 several feet in diameter. 



What we now figure is a dwarfer and more short-jointed 

 kind, our drawing of which was made in the Garden of 



* See folio 1184. 

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