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peduucled, densely flowered, 1 to 514 inches long, erect and numerous in a 

 close umbellate panicle ; bracts subulate, shorter than the flowers ; corolla deep 

 blue, 1 line broad; commissural faces of nutlets smooth or minutely and closely 

 puberulent. 



Marshy islands and river banks, 5 to 3300 feet : delta of the lower Sacramento 

 and lower San Joaquin rivers ; Shasta Co. ; Humboldt Co. North to British Colum- 

 bia, east to Nova Scotia and Florida. July-Nov. 



Locs. — Delta region : Middle River, San Joaquin Co., Jepson 5693 ; Sherman Isl., San Joa- 

 quin Co., Jepson 10,215 ; Grand Isl., Sacramento Co., Jepson 21,229. Shasta Co.: Fall River Lake, 

 M. S. Baker. Humboldt Co. (Bot. Cal. 2:478). 



Refs.— Verbena hastata L., Sp. PI. 20 (1753), 

 type loc. "in Canadae humidis"; Jepson, Man. 858 

 (1925). 



5. V. lasiostachys Link. California 

 Vervain. (Fig. 420.) Stem erect or dif- 

 fusely branched and spreading, 1 to 4 feet 

 high; herbage mostly soft-pubescent or 

 spreading-hispid ; leaf-blades broadly ovate 

 or oblong-ovate, li/4 to 4 inches long, coarsely 

 serrate, and often laciniately lobed, espe- 

 cially toward the base which is contracted 

 into the cuneately winged petiole I/2 inch 

 long; blades of lower leaves commonly 3- 

 parted or -divided; spikes 2 to 12 inches 

 long, loosely paniculate; bracts subulate, 

 shorter than the calyx; calyx rim with the 

 teeth subulate, minutely bristly, % line 

 long; corolla violet or blue, % to 2 lines 

 broad; commissural faces of nutlets mi- 

 nutely dotted-puberulent. 



Dry open hillsides and dry or wet flats 

 in the valleys, 150 to 2.500 (or 4000) feet : 

 eismontane southern California from San 

 Diego Co. to Santa Barbara Co. ; Coast 

 Ranges from San Luis Obispo Co. to western 

 Siskiyou Co.; Sierra Nevada foothills from Tulare Co. to eastern Siskiyou Co. 

 North to Oregon. June- Aug. 



Loes.— Coastal S. Cal. : Valley Center, San Diego Co., C. V. Meyer 240 ; Palomar Mt., Esther 

 Hewlett 51 ; near Newport Beach, Orange Co., Booth 1171 ; San Bernardino, Parish; San Antonio 

 Canon, San Gabriel Mts., Peirson 175; Los Angeles, Elizabeth Palmer: San Marcos ranch, Santa 

 Ynez River Valley, Jepson 12,144. Coast Ranges: San Luis Obispo, Summers; Canon del Bey, 

 Monterey, Jepson 9738 : Alexander Valley, Sonoma Co., Jepson 9486 ; Mt. Konocti, Lake Co., 

 Jepson 21,227; XJkiah Valley, Jepson 9279; Bartlett Sprs., n. Lake Co., Jepson 18,935; South 

 Fork Eel River near Piercy, Tracy 5059; Dyerville, Humboldt Co., Constance 660; Yreka, Butler 

 943. Sierra Nevada: Hospital Rock, Middle Fork Kaweah River, W. Fry 333; Nigger Gulch, 

 Columbia, Tuolumne Co., Jepson 6419 ; Morley sta., Shasta Co., M. S. BaTcer; betw. Sims and Sis- 

 son, upper Sacramento River, Jepson 21,226. 



Var. abramsii (Moldenke) Jepson comb. n. Calyx rim ^vith very short obscure lobes or mi- 

 nutely erose. — San Diego Co., San Bernardino Valley (Parish, det. H. N. Moldenke) and north 

 to Monterey Co., the Great Valley and Inyo Co., ace. H. N. Moldenke. 



Refs. — Verbena lasiostachys Link, Enum. Hort. Berol. 2:122 (1822), a garden plant cul- 

 tivated from California, probably originally collected by Menzies; not V. prostrata Savi (1801). 

 V. prostrata R. Br.; Ait., Hort. Kew. ed. 2, 4:41 (1812), type loc. "Northwest Coast of America" 

 (a geographic term which from 1790 to 1840 was sometimes inclusive of California), Menzies; 

 Jepson, Man. 858 (1925). V. lasiostachys var. scabrida Moldenke, Am. Mid. Nat. 24:753 (1940), 

 type loc. Monterey, Parish 11,590; mature leaves scabridous above (ex char.). V. lasiostachys 

 var. septentrionalis Moldenke, I.e., type loc. Medford, Ore., Epling 5445 ; calyx only 3.4 mm. long 

 (ex char.). Var. abramsii Jepson. V. abramMi Moldenke, Am. Mid. Nat. 24:750 (1940), type 

 loc. "Hot Springs," San Diego Co., Palmer 309. 



Fig. 419. Verbena HASTATA L. a, leaf, 

 X % ; b, infl., X 1/3 ; e, fl., X 2; d, nutlet, 

 X 4. 



