hermaphrodite 
146 THE 
DICTIONARY OF GARDENING, 
"Verbena continued. j 
has been an uncertainty, because of the plants being 
‘subject to, apparently, some kind of disease. For this 
reason, and also because stock plants are not, as a | 
rule, easily preserved through the winter, many culti- 
 vators have taken to the raising of seedlings each spring 
for growing only through one summer. This is easily 
done, a8 the young plants grow rapidly and flower freely 
if the seed has been saved from a good source. Green 
Fly and Mildew are the greatest enemies to which the 
plants are subject; either 
of these, if allowed to re- 
main on them, will soon 
work irreparable mischief. 
For exhibition purposes, 
Verbenas may be grown in 
. pots ina cold frame. The 
following is a list of varie- 
ties that are best suited for 
bedding : 
BOULE DE NEIGE, white, nicely 
scented, CRIMSON KING, 
crimson, with white eye; fine 
der. LADY NDES- 
BOROUGH, mauve, with white 
. Stripe. LUSTROUS, intense 
scarlet, with large, pure white 
eye ; strong grower. NEMESIS, 
very deep pink. PURPLE 
KING, purple self; a good, 
well-known, old variety. 
VERBENACE. A 
natural order of herbs, 
shrubs, or trees, broadly 
dispersed over the warmer 
parts of the globe, and par- 
ticularly abundant in South 
temperate regions. Flowers 
or rarely, 
by abortion, polygamous, 
variously disposed; calyx 
inferior, persistent, the tube 
eampanulate, tubular, or 
rarely almost obsolete, 
the teeth, lobes, or seg- 
ments five, four, or rarely 
six to eight, or obsolete; 
corolla gamopetalous, the 
tube often incurved, the 
limb four or five-cleft, rarely 
multifid, the lobes equal or 
more or less bilabiate; per- 
fect stamens four, didyna- 
mous, or two, or in a few 
genera as many as the 
corolla lobes; filaments in- 
appendiculate ; anthers two- 
celled ; bracts variable, often 
small. Fruit more or less 
drupaceous or sub-capsular. 
Leaves generally opposite or ” 
whorled, entire, toothed, or sid 
incised-multifid, in one genus pinnate, in another digi- 
tately compound; stipules absent. Teak, one of the most 
important timbers in the world, is the wood of Tectona 
grandis. Lippia. citriodora, and several species of Lantana, 
are used as tea, The order embraces fifty-nine genera, 
and nearly 700 species. Well-known examples are: Clero- 
dendron, Lantana, Verbena, and Vitez. 
VERBENA, LEMON - SCENTED. A common 
name for Lippia citriodora (which see). 
VERBENA OIL-PLANT. A name given to An- 
dropogon Schenanthus (which see). 
M A, SAND. A common name for Abronia 
" (which see). 
VERBENA, SWEET-SCENTED. See Aloysia. 
VERBESINA (altered from Verbena, which some of 
the species are supposed to resemble). Crown Beard. 
Including Platypteris and Ximenesia. ORD. Composite. 
A genus comprising about fifty species of stove, green- 
house, or hardy, annual or perennial herbs, sub-shrubs, 
or rarely shrubs, inhabiting the warmer parts of America. 
Flower-heads yellow, or the ray florets white; involueral 
braets oblong or linear, in few series; receptacle convex 
or conical, paleaceous; ray florets ligulate, spreading, 
FiG. 162 VERBESINA PINNATIFIDA. 
entire or two or three-toothed; achenes glabrous or 
pilose. Leaves opposite or the upper ones (or all) alter- 
nate, petiolate, sessile, or deeurrent, toothed, lobed, or 
rarely entire. Few of the species possess any hor 
tural value. Those described below are, with the 
tion of V. encelioides, perennials. All thrive in 
soil, and may be increased by seeds, the pere 
also by divisions. . s 
kä. “ed gue asa SË —asup pAb ig ote si i 
l. alternate, long-decurrent, oblong or obovate, obtuse, unt 
and sinuate-toothed, nearly glabrous. Stem winged. 
West Indies, &c., 1699. Stove. (B. M. 1716.) | 
V. crocata (yellow). fl.-heads orange-yellow, 
Summer, anche MEME. epe 
